{"id":27816,"date":"2012-10-04T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T05:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=27816"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:32:30","slug":"covina-35-baldwin-park-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=27816","title":{"rendered":"C-Town Shuts Down Baldwin Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27817\" style=\"width: 526px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0246.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27817\" class=\" wp-image-27817  \" title=\"Michael Peters\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/DSC_0246-955x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"415\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-27817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Covina&#8217;s Michael Peters, being interviewed here by Tribune wordsmith John Honell, picked off two passes and returned a punt 76-yards for a touchdown in the Colts 35-0 victory over Baldwin Park on Thursday night.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(Covina)- Covina defended its turf with solid defense, Baldwin Park came in with a suspect offense, and the result turned out as expected with the Colts taking a 35-0 decision from the Braves on Thursday night.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Covina, now 5-2, 2-1 in league, is very much the surprise of the 2012 season after a coaching change, devastating graduation losses, and transfers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t listen to what other people say,\u201d said Colts HC Joe Brown. \u201cWe have good players, they come to practice every day and they work hard. I can\u2019t complain. We take care of business and we control our own destiny.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>C-Town also controlled the game as they built a 21-0 halftime lead.<\/p>\n<p>Shazeb Mallick scored the first of his two touchdowns with 3:59 to play in the first quarter on a 1-yard run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re just feeding him the ball and he\u2019s running hard,\u201d said Brown of Mallick.<\/p>\n<p>The lead grew to 14-0 when quarterback Emilio Zertuche hooked up with Evan Stretton for a 55-yard touchdown pass.<\/p>\n<p>Then with under a minute to go before the break Mike Peters found a hole on a punt return and went 76-yards to paydirt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a heckuva a player,\u201d said Brown of Peters who also intercepted two passes on the\u00a0 night.<\/p>\n<p>Baldwin Park started sophomore Hector Moran at quarterback, but the Braves offense continued to struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovina came in with a good plan, they saw what we had and did a good job,\u201d said Baldwin Park HC Chris Williams.<\/p>\n<p>In the third Mallick scored on a 4-yard run and Pernell Smalley closed the scoring with 6:22 left to play when he went 46-yards down the sideline.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves fell to 0-7 on the season, 0-3 in the Valle Vista.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Covina)- Covina defended its turf with solid defense, Baldwin Park came in with a suspect offense, and the result turned out as expected with the Colts taking a 35-0 decision from the Braves on Thursday night.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816","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=27816"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59182,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27816\/revisions\/59182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}