{"id":10366,"date":"2010-10-02T03:05:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-02T10:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=10366"},"modified":"2010-10-03T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-03T23:02:01","slug":"whittier-christian-21-salesian-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=10366","title":{"rendered":"Whittier Christians March On 21-14"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Grant Escobar had a huge night with 181 yards rushing and another 78 in pass receptions<\/p><\/div>\n

By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n

(Whittier) –\u00a0It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t the way Whittier Christian is accustomed to winning games.\u00a0But it was a W and the Heralds will take it\u00a0as they knocked off\u00a0Salesian 21-14 to remain undefeated\u00a0Friday night at Whittier College.<\/p>\n

Whittier Christian committed three turnovers\u00a0including a crucial one late in the fourth quarter. Instead of going up by two touchdowns late to ice the game,\u00a0Stephen Anderson was intercepted by\u00a0Luke Urista at the Mustang five yard line giving Salesian one more shot to tie it.<\/p>\n

Salesian set up shop at the nine and moved the ball out to the 35. But a Whittier Christian sack\u00a0and then an incomplete pass on fourth down\u00a0forced Salesian to turn the ball over on downs. From there the Heralds ran out the clock.<\/p>\n

“We as coaches knew Salesian was a good physical team,” said Whittier Christian Coach Sergio Gradilla. “But I think our players might have\u00a0taken them too lightly.”<\/p>\n

Whittier Christian didn’t get on the board until 30 seconds left in the first half. Rudy Robles\u00a0pounded it in from the three yard line on the jumbo package to cap an eight play drive.\u00a0Grant Escobar,\u00a0who has stepped in admirably for the injured\u00a0Joel Rhone, did the bulk of the work on the drive and\u00a0Anderson hit Cameron Stanley on a 20 yard pass to get the ball deep into Salesian territory.<\/p>\n

The Heralds added to the 7-0 lead in the third quarter. Stanley hauled in a\u00a013 yard strike from Anderson,\u00a0left a defender in his wake and then\u00a0weaved his way into the end zone for a 14-0 advantage.<\/p>\n

It remained that way well into the fourth until Salesian finally struck.\u00a0Jhad Vercher\u00a0found Dominique Brown on a 34 yard touchdown pass\u00a0with 7:55 left to cut the lead in half.<\/p>\n

Whittier Christian immediately responded marching 81 yards in six plays to go up 21-7. Anderson found\u00a0sophomore Cody Bronkar in the end zone for a 23 yard TD\u00a0pass.<\/p>\n

After the Heralds were stopped on fourth down on their own 46\u00a0Salesian used \u00a0the\u00a0Vercher-Brown connection one more time to get within a touchdown again.\u00a0This\u00a0time the touchdown pass covered\u00a015 yards as Brown out jumped the WC defender and\u00a0pulled it in in the corner of the zone.<\/p>\n

It looked like Whittier Christian was going to clinch\u00a0it until the late pick\u00a0but the\u00a0Herald defense made the stop when it had to.<\/p>\n

Escobar had a huge night rushing for 181 yards on\u00a027 carries. He also caught four passes for 78 yards. Anderson threw for 271 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n

Defensively, Tim Sanchez, George Flynn, Matt Lozano,\u00a0and David Bissuet\u00a0came up big for the Heralds. Paul O’Loughlin, who moved to corner from safety also had a strong game.<\/p>\n

Whittier Christian improved to 5-0 with the victory while Salesian dropped to 3-2.\u00a0The Heralds are at Cantwell\u00a0next week.<\/p>\n

S\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 0\u00a0 14\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 14<\/strong><\/p>\n

WC\u00a0\u00a0 0\u00a0 7\u00a0 7\u00a0 7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Summary: <\/strong><\/p>\n

2nd Qtr: <\/strong><\/p>\n

WC :30\u00a0Robles 3 yd run (Stanley Kick) <\/strong><\/p>\n

3rd Qtr: <\/strong><\/p>\n

WC 3:21 Stanley 13 yd pass from Anderson (Stanley Kick)<\/strong><\/p>\n

4th Qtr: <\/strong><\/p>\n

S 7:55 Brown 34 yd pass from Vercher (Alex Radillo Kick) <\/strong><\/p>\n

WC 6:13 Bronkar 23 yd pass from Anderson (Stanley Kick)<\/strong><\/p>\n

S 3:38 Brown 15 yd pass from Vercher (Radillo Kick)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Whittier) –\u00a0It wasn’t pretty. It wasn’t the way Whittier Christian is accustomed to winning games.\u00a0But it was a W and the Heralds will take it\u00a0as they knocked off\u00a0Salesian 21-14 to remain undefeated\u00a0Friday night at Whittier College.<\/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":[3],"tags":[2212,3954,3952,2213,1537,3953,3955,1475,2789,1533],"class_list":["post-10366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-cameron-stanley","tag-cody-bronkar","tag-dominique-brown","tag-george-flynn","tag-grant-escobar","tag-jhad-vercher","tag-paul-oloughlin","tag-rudy-robles","tag-sergio-gradilla","tag-stephen-anderson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10366"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10422,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10366\/revisions\/10422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}