{"id":8040,"date":"2010-08-02T19:18:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T02:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=8040"},"modified":"2010-08-02T19:19:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T02:19:57","slug":"ema-juniors-claim-california-division-3-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=8040","title":{"rendered":"EMA Juniors Claim California Division 3 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<div id=\"attachment_8042\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8042\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8042\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_12432-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EMA Junior All-Stars Headed to Regionals <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The El Monte American Junior All-Stars created history Saturday. The Pioneer Park residents became the first District 18 hardball team ever in any division to advance to a regional tournament with a dramatic 13-12 comeback victory over Rancho Santa Margarita.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->They won the clinching game in the Sub-Division series even though they trailed 11-5 as late as the fifth inning. In the best of three tournament, EMA won the first game handily 10-3 and then rallied to win the second game 4-3.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>El Monte American will start Regionals in Laguna Niguel Tuesday night. They will play six games against other state winners in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">El Monte<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> American Little League Juniors Baseball<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Manager:<\/span><\/strong> Sergio Juarez<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Coaches:<\/span><\/strong> Armando Verdugo &amp; Antonio Ruiz<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Players:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Brown<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Juarez<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Ruiz<\/p>\n<p>Noeh Martinez<\/p>\n<p>Fernando Rosales<\/p>\n<p>Ricardo Perez<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Soto<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Velasquez<\/p>\n<p>Cesar Torres<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Fuentes<\/p>\n<p>Armani Garcia<\/p>\n<p>Diego Palomino\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnny Alvarez<\/p>\n<p>Armando Verdugo<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">League President:<\/span><\/strong> Teresa Farfan<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Jr. Baseball VP:<\/span><\/strong> Hector Farfan<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">District 18 DA:<\/span><\/strong> Milan Mrakich<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">District 18 ADA:<\/span><\/strong> Claudia Barron<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">District 18 ADA:<\/span><\/strong> Diane Bowen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The El Monte American Junior All-Stars created history Saturday. 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