{"id":21730,"date":"2012-01-14T18:25:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T01:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21730"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:19:58","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:19:58","slug":"diamond-ranch-captains-march-and-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=21730","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Ranch Captains March and Advance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_21743\" style=\"width: 241px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21743\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21743\" title=\"Andrew Fischer\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Andrew-Fischer2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"218\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-21743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Fischer smart on and off the field; He&#39;s headed to Harvard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Pomona) \u2013 Diamond Ranch Coach Roddy Layton obviously knows what he\u2019s doing when he picks his captains for his football team. The four that he selected last year turned out to be really special. All four are going on to distinguished universities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Andrew Fischer is going to Harvard. Blake Benjamin is joining former Diamond Ranch alum Graham Vickers at the Naval Academy. Jacob Ardron has visited Penn and is now on his official visit at Columbia. Peter \u201cRocky\u201d Neise has been accepted to Westpoint.<\/p>\n<p>All except Neise will play football at their respective schools. Fischer who played running back, wide receiver and returned kicks for the Panthers will play slot WR at Harvard. Ardron was all CIF at linebacker and Benjamin plays offensive and defensive line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot too many players are attending universities like that and for all to be team captains from one school is pretty cool. It\u2019s special,\u201d Layton said.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond Ranch tied for second with Bonita in the Hacienda League in 2011 and knocked off Bellflower in the first round of the playoffs before falling to Muir.<\/p>\n<p>Also Chris Miller, another standout at DR, is going to Oregon State.<\/p>\n<p>Former Panther Vickers is doing well and is currently starting at Navy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just visited him and his family during the Christmas break. He had his helmet and his jersey from the Navy victory over Army,\u201d Layton added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Pomona) \u2013 Diamond Ranch Coach Roddy Layton obviously knows what he\u2019s doing when he picks his captains for his football team. The four that he selected last year turned out to be really special. All four are going on to distinguished universities.<\/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":[871,12816],"tags":[4027,6714,6708,6712,269,6709,6715,5204,6713,6711,6710,671,6716],"class_list":["post-21730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-hsfootball","tag-andrew-fischer","tag-army","tag-blake-benjamin","tag-columbia","tag-diamond-ranch","tag-graham-vickers","tag-harvard","tag-jacob-ardron","tag-navy","tag-penn","tag-peter-rocky-neise","tag-roddy-layton","tag-westpoint"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21730"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59146,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21730\/revisions\/59146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}