{"id":65282,"date":"2018-10-26T09:30:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=65282"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T18:55:37","slug":"lions-roar-to-mvl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=65282","title":{"rendered":"El Monte Spreads the Wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lions Win Griffin and Capture MVL Crown: 53-7<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Rich Whittington<\/p>\n<p>(El Monte) &#8211; For the first time since 1979, the El Monte Lions are the undisputed Mission Valley League football champions. The Lions made short work of the visiting<br \/>\nSouth El Monte Eagles, 53-7, Friday evening, in front of a capacity crowd at Lion field. This was El Monte\u2019s first Griffin Bowl triumph since 2014.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>South El Monte actually drew first blood in this annual rivalry game. With 11:43 remaining in the first quarter of play, the Eagles scored on a 72 yard TD run by Sophomore RB Andrew Munoz. The PAT was added by Gasper Beltran. This made the score 7-0. This would prove to be the only scoring for the eagles.<\/p>\n<p>El Monte answered, almost immediately, as Davon Booth returned the ensuing kickoff for an 80 yard score. In the Lions\u2019 usual fashion, Booth added the 2-Point PAT. This made the score 8-7, El Monte, at the 11:26 mark of the first quarter. El Monte was just getting started.<\/p>\n<p>Davon Booth provided his weekly explosive performance. In addition to the kickoff return to open the scoring, Booth scored on a 5 yard TD run, caught an 80 yard TD pass, converted three additional 2 Point PAT runs, and caught a 2 Point PAT pass. If that wasn\u2019t enough, Booth also intercepted a pass from South El Monte QB Mario Zamudio.<\/p>\n<p>El Monte also sent a message to future opponents\u2026that being that Davon Booth is not the Lions only offensive threat. Junior QB Nathan Velasquez proved to be no stranger to the end zone. In addition to throwing the 80 yard TD pass, that was caught by Booth, Velasquez scored on TD runs of 2 and 5 yards. Also adding to the Lions\u2019 TD barrage was senior RB Abel Cueva, who scored on TD trots of 1 and 8 yards.<\/p>\n<p>El Monte finishes their regular season with a 9-1 overall record, a perfect 5-0 in Mission Valley League competition. The Lions advance to the CIF playoffs, which begin next Friday evening. Their opponent, game time, and formal location are TBA.<br \/>\nSouth El Monte finished their 2018 campaign with an overall record of 5-5, 4-2 in the MVL. The Eagles\u2019 playoff future will be announced on Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lions Win Griffin and Capture MVL Crown: 53-7 By Rich Whittington (El Monte) &#8211; For the first time since 1979, the El Monte Lions are the undisputed Mission Valley League football champions. The Lions made short work of the visiting South El Monte Eagles, 53-7, Friday evening, in front of a capacity crowd at Lion [&hellip;]<\/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":[12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65282","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\/65282","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=65282"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65289,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65282\/revisions\/65289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}