{"id":29251,"date":"2012-11-02T22:07:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T05:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=29251"},"modified":"2017-06-10T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-10T17:46:28","slug":"san-gabriel-19-alhambra-9-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=29251","title":{"rendered":"Matadors Spoil Alhambra&#8217;s Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Rich Whittington<\/div>\n<div>(Alhambra) &#8211; The San Gabriel Matadors scored a late touchdown to spoil Alhambra&#8217;s homecoming and beat the Moors 15-9 Friday night at Moor Field in an Almont League battle.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><!--more-->The Matadors (2-3 in league) entered the contest with a slight chance of making the playoffs. The Moors, which also finished the league season with a 2-3 record, actually controlled their own destiny entering tonight&#8217;s contest. They could secure a playoff spot with a victory, while a loss would almost certainly end their season.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Moors scored first. With 4:36 remaining in the first quarter, Quarterback Armando Amaya called his own number, and scored on a 3 yard TD run. The PAT attempt sailed wide right. This gave the Moors a 6-0 lead, which they would take into the locker room at halftime.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>San Gabriel got on the board in the third quarter. With 2:33 remaining, Running Back Joseph Mayorga scored on a 5 yard touchdown run. The Pat attempt was good, Giving San Gabriel the lead, 7-6, as the third quarter came to a close.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Moors regained the lead in the fourth quarter. With 8:03 remaining in the contest, Jessie Campos added a 29 yard field goal, giving Alhambra the lead, 9-7. Then the Matadors sealed the victory. With 5:49 remaining in regulation, quarterback Marqus Valenzuela hooked up with Mayorga on a 73 yard catch and run for a touchdown. The two point conversion attempt was good, giving San Gabriel the lead, and the victory.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>At 2-3, it is unlikely that either of these teams will make the playoffs. However, some very &#8220;interesting&#8221; occurrences have been known to take place on bracket day. Stay tuned.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Whittington (Alhambra) &#8211; The San Gabriel Matadors scored a late touchdown to spoil Alhambra&#8217;s homecoming and beat the Moors 15-9 Friday night at Moor Field in an Almont League battle.<\/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-29251","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\/29251","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=29251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29425,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29251\/revisions\/29425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}