{"id":55708,"date":"2016-10-07T10:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T17:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=55708"},"modified":"2016-10-08T00:21:25","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T07:21:25","slug":"charter-oak-survives-in-westco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=55708","title":{"rendered":"Charter Oak Survives in WestCo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CO gave WestCo an inch…and the Bulldogs took a mile.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n

(West Covina)\u2014It was a perfect storm of parking issues, homecoming, and scoreboard malfunctions, but Charter Oak was in full control until West Covina rallied. The Bulldogs threw everything at the Chargers but a crazy ex-girlfriend before falling 27-24 on Friday night.<\/p>\n

West Covina was down 27-9 late in the third quarter before getting new life from running back Anthony Ramiro. The senior raced 71-yards for a touchdown and then converted the 2-point conversion to make it, 27-17.<\/p>\n

On Charter Oak\u2019s next possession quarterback Matthew Takato was picked off by Steven Cantero and the Bulldogs were back in business. With 9:47 to play Ramiro scored his third touchdown of the night on a 9-yard run. Brandon Gonzalez added the extra-point to make it 27-24.<\/p>\n

Later in the quarter, Bulldogs advanced to the Chargers 21 with less than five minutes to play. But they were hit with consecutive false starts and a first and ten was turned into a first and 20 with 4:24 to play. Quickly facing a fourth and eleven at the 22, quarterback Joseph Barcena went to the end zone.<\/p>\n

The pass was incomplete, but pass interference was called against CO\u2019s Michael Anyanwu.<\/p>\n

However, in case you didn\u2019t know, many of the family, friends, and alumni on the Westco sideline didn\u2019t\u2026Pass interference is a ten-yard penalty, NOT an automatic first down. So instead of fourth and eleven, the Bulldogs were facing fourth and one at the twelve.<\/p>\n

For three quarters and ten minutes Ramiro had been nearly automatic carrying the ball\u2026The play went right\u2026and Ramiro was swarmed by Charter Oak defenders.<\/p>\n

The Chargers took over, ran out the clock, and improved to 6-0 on the season. West Covina dropped to 3-3.<\/p>\n

CO jumped to a 14-0 lead when Brian Casteel capped a 67 yard, six-play drive with an 8-yard scoring run to open the game. Three minutes later they were in the end zone again on Takata\u2019s 10-yard touchdown run which was set up by Raymond Moronez\u2019s interception of Barcena.<\/p>\n

The Chargers let the Bulldogs back in the game with 1:57 to play in the first. A bad snap sailed over punter Rafael Guizar. Guizar tracked it down, attempted to punt it away, but it was blocked. WestCo took over at the CO 26.<\/p>\n

First play of the drive, Barcena goes down the middle to a wide open Ramiro for a touchdown.<\/p>\n

Gonzalez added a 28-yard field goal with 6:28 to play in the half\u2026but with ten seconds left Casteel scored on a 2-yard run to make it 20-9 at the half.<\/p>\n

In the third, the Chargers extended the lead to 27-9 when Takata scrambled for 10-yards and as he was being tackled lateraled to Isaiah Hamilton who took it the final 36-yards to paydirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Torosian (West Covina)\u2014It was a perfect storm of parking issues, homecoming, and scoreboard malfunctions, but Charter Oak was in full control until West Covina rallied. The Bulldogs threw everything at the Chargers but a crazy ex-girlfriend before falling 27-24 on Friday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55711,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55708\/revisions\/55711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}