{"id":61939,"date":"2017-11-10T22:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T05:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=61939"},"modified":"2017-11-11T10:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-11T17:38:29","slug":"burbank-outlasts-tustin-55-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=61939","title":{"rendered":"Burbank Outlasts Tustin, 55-42"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Burbank Bulldogs celebrate Louie Torres’ (#7) pick-six as they advance to the second round of the playoffs. (Photo by Doug Brown)<\/p><\/div>\n

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By Al Woodall<\/p>\n

(Burbank)\u2014Burbank\u2019s Kaydon Spens landed the final blow in a 55-42 slugfest between the Bulldogs and the visiting Tustin Tillers on Friday night at Memorial Stadium in the first round of the CIF playoffs.<\/p>\n

With a minute to play the Tillers, Noe Salas connected on a 46-yard field goal to make it a 49-42 contest. But the ensuing onside kick was taken 44-yards by Burbank\u2019s Spens to paydirt to ice the contest.<\/p>\n

The back and forth contest began with teams trading touchdowns in the first quarter and the Bulldogs taking a 28-21 lead into the locker room at halftime.<\/p>\n

Tustin tied the contest again at the start of the third when Mike Meirez raced 39-yards to the end zone. It then took the lead on a Salas field goal from 30-yards.<\/p>\n

Down by three the Bulldogs responded on both side of the ball.<\/p>\n

Burbank quarterback, Matt Porras\u2014( 4 touchdown passes) connected with Chadz Vang (3 touchdowns) for a 10-yard score to put the Bulldogs back on top 35-31.<\/p>\n

The Burbank defense then provided breathing space when defensive back Louie Torres returned an interception 42-yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n

Tustin continued to counter punch out of it\u2019s Wing-T offense with K.C. Carr scoring on a short-run\u2026but the Bulldogs were able to stave them off at the end with Spens kick-off return closing the deal.<\/p>\n

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Burbank’s Seth Jones bringing trouble to the Tustin backfield. (Photo by Doug Brown)<\/p><\/div>\n

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More of the physical play from Memorial Stadium in Burbank on Friday night. (Photo by Doug Brown)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Bulldogs’ Kaydon Spens points to the second round after returning an onside kick for a touchdown to clinch a first round victory over visiting Tustin. (Photo by Doug Brown)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","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":[12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61939","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=61939"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61951,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61939\/revisions\/61951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}