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Cal's Terris Jones rushed for 118-yards and two touchdowns Thursday night<\/p><\/div>\n
By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n
(Whittier)- Turnovers and a sluggish offense did in California as they fell to La Mirada, 35-20, on Thursday night at Whittier District Field.<\/span><\/p>\n Matador quarterback Daniel Ponce De Leon completed 16 of 20 passes for 196-yards for one touchdown and rushed for two more to lead his team from a 7-7 tie to a 21-7 halftime lead and eventual victory.<\/span><\/p>\n The Condors countered with Terris Jones, who lined up in the slot, tailback, and quarterback to rush for 117-yards on 18 carries and two touchdowns.<\/span><\/p>\n La Mirada\u00a0went 80-yards on 13-plays before Ponce De Leon scored from a yard out. Cal answered back with an 81-yard drive of its own that Jones capped with 11-yard run to tie the score.<\/span><\/p>\n The Matadors pulled away on the next series when Julian Matta turned a simple out pattern into an 80-yard touchdown. The Condors fumbled two plays into their next drive and moments later J.T. Torres rumbled 14-yards to paydirt to make it 21-7.<\/span><\/p>\n After Jones scored on a three-yard run to open the third, Cal collected only one more first down until the final seconds of the game. Quarterback Eddie Artiga missed on his final seven attempts.<\/span><\/p>\n La Mirada added another six-minute bone cruncher of a drive that Ponce De Leon finished with a one-yard run, and Ralph Gramajo intecepted an Artiga pass and returned it 17-yards for the touchdown to secure the blow out.<\/span><\/p>\n In the final moments Adam Contreras came in for the Condors and completed four of five passes for 72-yards, including a 34-yard strike to Ben Siepak to close the scoring. <\/span><\/p>\n Cal is now 0-2, La Mirada improved to 2-1.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Joe Torosian (Whittier)- Turnovers and a sluggish offense did in California as they fell to La Mirada, 35-20, on Thursday night at Whittier District Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[906,905,901,902,904,903,451],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-adam-contreras","tag-ben-siepak","tag-california-high","tag-condors","tag-daniel-ponce-de-leon","tag-eddie-artiga","tag-terris-jones"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27090,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/27090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}