{"id":91781,"date":"2025-09-05T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=91781"},"modified":"2025-09-06T01:53:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:53:10","slug":"norwalk-holds-off-pasadena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=91781","title":{"rendered":"Norwalk Holds off Pasadena"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Norwalk lined up and picked up another victory. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Marcus Castillo <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Norwalk) – Norwalk survived Pasadena’s strong second half with a 42-34 victory Friday night at Norwalk High School. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Diego Cerritos and De\u2019Ron Walker carried the load again for Norwalk combining for 341-yards and 6-touchdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers got the ball first and Walker capped off an 80-yard drive with a six-yard touchdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a three and out for the Bulldogs Norwalk went to Walker again. This time he got in from seven yards out to make it 14-0 late in the first. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasadena was forced to punt again and the Lancers would put it in the end zone with Walker on a four- yard burst to the end zone making it 21-0 early in the second quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bulldogs got on the board midway through the second quarter when quarterback Dutch Burbidge hit Kyle Robertson on a slant putting the score at 21-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwalk came right back two minutes later with a Cerritos one-yard dive to paydirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasadena got in the end zone again just before the half when Burbidge went to the air again and this time hit Damari Pitts and the score was 28-14 at halftime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bulldogs turned the ball over on downs to start the second half after pressure from Jacob Baker, Miguel Urueta took down Burbidge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Axel Bustamante tossed a pitch but nobody was home and Pasadena\u2019s Daniel Freeman picked it up and took it 25-yards for the score making it 28-20 after a blocked PAT. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers extended their lead to 15 when Cerritos got in the end zone early in the fourth making it 35-20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasadena needed just one play from freshmen Synncere Pitts – a 90-yard run to put them within nine after a missed two-point-conversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cerritos led the way again down field and finished it off with a five-yard score with five minutes left in the game it was 42-26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burbidge got the Bulldogs in the end zone with just under two minutes left finding his favorite target Robertson. Burbidge also took in the two-point conversion making it one score game at 42-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasadena kicked an onside kick which looked like they recovered but an inadverdant whistle caused a redo and a Lancers recovery and victory after they were able to run out the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burbidge finished with three passing touchdowns. Synncere Pitts had two carries for 151 yards and a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cerritos finished wirh 172 yards on 33-carries and Walker added 169-yards on 16 carries and their six touchdowns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Norwalk will stay home and face Venice next week while Pasadena will stay on the road and play Burroughs (Burbank).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norwalk lined up and picked up another victory. By Marcus Castillo (Norwalk) – Norwalk survived Pasadena’s strong second half with a 42-34 victory Friday night at Norwalk High School. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91781","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91794,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91781\/revisions\/91794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}