{"id":56871,"date":"2016-12-11T00:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T07:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=56871"},"modified":"2016-12-11T21:12:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:12:33","slug":"la-jolla-country-day-63-arroyo-42-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=56871","title":{"rendered":"Arroyo Run Ends in La Jolla, 63-42"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Daniel Mendoza score twice for the Knights in the loss to La Jolla Country Day.<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim\u00a0Peterson<\/p>\n

(La Jolla) –\u00a0Braxton Burmeister\u00a0threw for 365 yards and five touchdowns\u00a0and ran for another\u00a0to lead La Jolla Country Day to a 63-42 win over Arroyo Saturday\u00a0night in the Division 5-A State Bowl. <\/p>\n

Burmeister had to be at his best to hold\u00a0off Ernesto Camacho and the Knights. Camacho threw five TD strikes and\u00a0379 yards of\u00a0his own but he was hurt by two\u00a0interceptions that were returned for touchdowns. The second pick six, by Casey Mariucci\u00a0for 48 yards came with just 1:08 left in the contest and accounted for the final score.<\/p>\n

The Knights were down 28-20 at the half and 49-42 with\u00a0just\u00a01:52 left in the contest. Arroyo went for it on fourth down\u00a0at its own\u00a028 with 2:56 left in the game but Camacho was sacked at the 19\u00a0to ice it for the Torreys. Three plays later\u00a0Brennan Goring caught a 15-yard\u00a0touchdown pass from\u00a0Burmeister\u00a0to make it 56-42 and that was all she wrote.<\/p>\n

The Knights gave La Jolla all it wanted throughout the evening.\u00a0On their next possession Camacho was intercepted by Mariucci who took it back to the house.<\/p>\n

Daniel Mendoza, who caught a touchdown pass\u00a0and scored on a two-yard run for Arroyo,\u00a0hauled in a\u00a015-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter\u00a0to cut La Jolla’s lead to 7-6.<\/p>\n

The Torreys scored twice early in the second quarter\u00a0to open\u00a0it\u00a0up to 21-6 and the Knights were chasing the rest of the night.\u00a0Leading 14-6, Goring stepped in front of a Camacho toss and returned it 35 yards for a score.<\/p>\n

Arroyo responded\u00a0later in the quarter\u00a0when Camacho scrambled out of the pocket and found a wide open\u00a0Ben Le for\u00a061-yard touchdown. After La Jolla Country Day\u00a0struck again on a 42-yard TD pass from Burmeister to Mariucci, the Knights answered\u00a0with a 93-yard toss to Devin Knight,\u00a0who caught Camacho’s toss and\u00a0scooted\u00a0down the far sideline\u00a0outrunning the La Jolla secondary to the end zone.<\/p>\n

In the third quarter Steven Ocariz, corralled a 21-yard Camacho bullet for a score to make it\u00a035-27 but it seemed like every time the Knights got within a score, Country Day\u00a0countered and they did again with 4:00 left in the third when Jaden Dir hauled in a 34-yard touchdown pass from Burmeister and it\u00a0was 42-27 after three.<\/p>\n

Mendoza’s two -yard run and a two-point conversion\u00a0pass by Camacho to\u00a0Daniel Martinez sliced it to\u00a042-35 early in the fourth.\u00a0Arroyo, keeping its head above water, and continuing to give\u00a0Country Day fits,\u00a0hit on one last big play.\u00a0Camacho worked his way out of trouble,\u00a0and fired a\u00a028-yard scoring strike to Yezdan Marquez\u00a0in the end zone\u00a0and with 6:38 left in the fourth quarter it was\u00a049-42.<\/p>\n

The Knights held\u00a0the Torreys on the next possession,\u00a0and got the ball back on their own\u00a031, but they were unable to generate a drive and were stopped\u00a0on fourth down.<\/p>\n

Mariucci was the go to guy for La Jolla\u00a0catching\u00a0seven passes for 118 yards and two scores to go along with the pick six.<\/p>\n

For Arroyo, Camacho, only a sophomore, threw to\u00a0seven different receivers including Knight who had four catches for 125 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

“We were kind of banking on a shootout knowing they were going to be tough to stop.\u00a0You stack the box and stop\u00a0the run with him\u00a0(Burmeister) and he’s got a good enough arm to exploit you on the outside and we just didn’t have the speed up front. With the mistakes we made in the secondary tonight you’re going to get eaten up,” said Arroyo head coach Jim Singiser.\u00a0\u00a0“But looking at the scoreboard the kids never stopped playing and that’s what we asked of them.”<\/p>\n

The season ended in a loss for Arroyo, 13-2,\u00a0but the campaign was a huge win overall.\u00a0The Knights captured their first CIF title in 30 years\u00a0with an overtime win over\u00a0Rancho Mirage last week.<\/p>\n

“Right now a\u00a0loss is a loss. You can’t sugarcoat it, we haven’t done that all year.\u00a0But the kids played hard, I’m proud of them. I’m proud of the fans,\u00a0you know we probably brought more fans than they did,”\u00a0Singiser added.<\/p>\n

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By Tim\u00a0Peterson (La Jolla) –\u00a0Braxton Burmeister\u00a0threw for 365 yards and five touchdowns\u00a0and ran for another\u00a0to lead La Jolla Country Day to a 63-42 win over Arroyo Saturday\u00a0night in the Division 5-A State Bowl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7283,12501,12497,12498,12499,12496,12493,4072,12495,12486,12341,12500,104,12494,12480,12482],"class_list":["post-56871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-arroyo-football","tag-ben-le","tag-braxton-burmeister","tag-brennan-goring","tag-casey-mariucci","tag-cif-championhsip","tag-cif-statebowl","tag-daniel-martinez","tag-daniel-mendoza","tag-devin-knight","tag-ernesto-camacho","tag-jaden-dir","tag-jim-singiser","tag-la-jolla-country-day-football","tag-rancho-mirage-football","tag-steven-ocariz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56871","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56871"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56882,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56871\/revisions\/56882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}