By George Hernandez<\/p>\n
(El Monte)- Mountain View didn’t forget their 10-7 loss last year to Sierra Vista.<\/p>\n
Jose “Nacho” Zamora, Igacio Castanada and Alfred Martinez carried the Vikes to a 16-14 win over the Dons Thursday night at Viking Stadium.<\/p>\n
View pounded the ball on its\u00a0first drive 80-yards and capped it off with a 5-yard touchdown run from Zamora to make it 7-0 after the extra point.<\/p>\n
The Vikings defense held their own against the running attack of Sierra Vista and forced a punt, but a Mountain View fumble gave the ball right back.<\/p>\n
The Dons pounded the ball themselves and Giovanni Rivera finished it off with a 30-yard run to paydirt to tie it up at 7-7.<\/p>\n
The Vikings took a 9-7 lead when a bad snap on a punt sailed and Martinez tackled the SV punter in the end zone for safety.<\/p>\n
View kept the moumentum and again ran the ball through the Dons’ defense and finished it off with Zamora’s 1-yard scamper to the end zone to make it 16-7 just before halftime, after a Chris Gonzalez extra point.<\/p>\n
Sierra Vista’s Rivera led the Dons back as he\u00a0was the workhorse on a third quarter drive\u00a0that resulted in\u00a0an eventual score to cut the View lead to 16-14.<\/p>\n
Both teams defenses clamped down\u00a0and didn’t allow any more scores. The Vikes’ Gonzalez saved the game when a bad snap went over his head and he was able to recover the ball and get the punt\u00a0off with only 1:54 left in the game.<\/p>\n
With 96-yards to go, Sierra Vista was stopped and the Vikings finished the game with a Gonzalez interception with 3 seconds left to secure the win.<\/p>\n
Castanada, Martinez and Zamora combined for 208-yards on the ground. Martinez also had two sacks on defense.<\/p>\n
Rivera had 23 carries for 138-yards and a score.<\/p>\n
View improves to 2-1 and travels to Hoover next week, while Sierra Vista, (0-2) heads to Keppel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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