By Matt Schuler<\/p>\n
(Baldwin Park)-Gladstone, behind the arm & legs of Kevin Amezquita, found itself\u00a0behind in another bout with a tough Valle Vista opponent, but managed another muscling come-from-behind win\u00a0after outscoring Baldwin Park 35-19 on the Braves home field.<\/p>\n
Amezquita, the do-it-all quarterback for Gladstone, racked up a total of 219 yards and three touchdowns for the Gladiators, especially when his team needed it.<\/p>\n
Down 13-7 in the first quarter, Amezquita broke loose on a 43 yard run which set up tailback Aaron Sanchez for a 1-yard TD run. On the play give an assist to Amezquita who helped push the pile ala the \u201cBush Push\u201d and the score was 14-13 with 7:16 in the first, giving G-Stone their first lead.<\/p>\n
After that the Gladiators\u00a0never\u00a0looked back.<\/p>\n
Amezquita found Sebastian Kirchfeld for a 29 yard strike right before half and it was 21-13 with 22 seconds on the clock. Then late in the third, an eight\u00a0yard drive was capped off by another one yard touchdown by Sanchez, this time no push.<\/p>\n
Late in the game, Brave quarterback Anthony Flores found speedy reciever Alex Delgado wide open. Delgado made one defender missed, then raced down the sideline for a 44 yard TD.<\/p>\n
Delgado also scored on the first play of scrimmage when Baldwin Park came out firing with some trickery.<\/p>\n
Niko Carravantes hiked the ball and pitched it to Flores, who then launched a bomb and touchdown to Delgado for to open the scoring 7-0 with 11:42 remaining in the first.<\/p>\n
With the loss\u00a0Baldwin Park falls to 0-3 while\u00a0Gladstone, which\u00a0beat Northview last week,\u00a0improved\u00a0to 2-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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