{"id":6801,"date":"2010-05-17T17:51:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=6801"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T00:51:42","slug":"south-el-monte-girls-win-fifth-straight-mvl-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=6801","title":{"rendered":"South El Monte Girls win Fifth Straight MVL Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_6802\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6802\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6802\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/SOUTHGIRLS2-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6802\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Britney Balderama, Melissa Vilanueva and Jessica Hernandez are all smiles after winning MVL crown<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By George Hernandez<\/p><\/div>\n<div>The South El Monte girls won their\u00a0fifth straight Mission Valley League softball title on the last game of the season with a 4-3 win over Arroyo. The win came as\u00a0a surprise even to\u00a0Lady Eagles\u00a0head coach Dean Bunting. The South gals finished 15-4 overall and 14-1 in the MVL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><!--more-->&#8220;I knew we would be in the playoffs, but i thought it was going\u00a0to be number two behind Arroyo&#8221; said Bunting. &#8220;I knew it was going to be hard after losing our best pitcher and hitter Reina Gaber, but Demi Nguyen stepped up on the pitching and Salina Gonzales took control at first and started hitting better.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The team was led by three seniors from last years semi-final\u00a0team\u00a0&#8211; Jessica Hernandez, Melissa Villanueva, and Britney Balderama.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0&#8220;It was a hard season. It\u00a0wasn&#8217;t like last year when we didn&#8217;t play with heart or didn&#8217;t take it serious. The\u00a0seniors wanted it more,&#8221; said Hernandez.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>When asked about this year&#8217;s team Villanueva said &#8220;We thought we were just going\u00a0to pull it out this\u00a0year. We\u00a0tried hard and kept getting better.\u00a0&#8220;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The season went fast and was a lot more intense than last year. We\u00a0needed more work, but i hope we do well\u00a0in CIF. That\u00a0would be great to get that championship.&#8221; said Balderama.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The Eagles first game will be against the wildcard game winner between Mary Star of the Sea and LA Lutheran. Bunting knows if he sees Arroyo again it&#8217;s going to be in the championship game and they&#8217;ll be ready.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>After the playoffs are\u00a0done and their\u00a0high school careers are over Hernandez and Balderama will stay teammates and play at Rio Hondo while Villanueva will be at Sacramento State but won&#8217;t play softball.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Hernandez The South El Monte girls won their\u00a0fifth straight Mission Valley League softball title on the last game of the season with a 4-3 win over Arroyo. The win came as\u00a0a surprise even to\u00a0Lady Eagles\u00a0head coach Dean Bunting. The South gals finished 15-4 overall and 14-1 in the MVL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/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":[2952,2946,2948,2950,2951,2947,2949,2953],"class_list":["post-6801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-britney-balderama","tag-dean-bunting","tag-demi-nguyen","tag-jesica-hernandez","tag-melissa-villanueva","tag-reina-gaber","tag-salina-gonzales","tag-south-el-monte-girls"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801","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=6801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6803,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6801\/revisions\/6803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}