{"id":52787,"date":"2016-04-27T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52787"},"modified":"2016-04-28T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:50:11","slug":"rivera-headed-to-finlandia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=52787","title":{"rendered":"Rivera Headed to Finlandia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_52789\" style=\"width: 530px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?attachment_id=52789\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52789\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52789\" class=\"size-large wp-image-52789\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/IMG_1039-e1461804851820-641x768.jpg\" alt=\"Montebello QB Ryan Rivera Commits to Finlandia (Michigan) \" width=\"520\" height=\"623\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-52789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montebello QB Ryan Rivera Commits to Finlandia (Michigan)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Tim Peterson<\/p>\n<p>(Montebello) &#8211; Montebello quarterback\u00a0Ryan Rivera\u00a0has committed to Finlandia University assistant coach Pete Gonzalez Jr.\u00a0confirmed Wednesday.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Rivera guided the Oilers to\u00a0an Almont League title last year with a\u00a05-0 record. Montebello went 9-2 overall and\u00a0fell in the first round of the playoffs to Viewpoint. Rivera, at the controls the\u00a0entire way,\u00a0threw for\u00a01,972 yards and 22 touchdowns\u00a0and also\u00a0showed off his mobility with 528 yards rushing and five touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_50812\" style=\"width: 439px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tangent-Dreams-School-Football-Novel-ebook\/dp\/B01ABCBLH2\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1461875543&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=tangent+dreams\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\" wp-image-50812\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/tangentdreams_jpg-594x768.jpg\" alt=\"\u201cThis is a great read for everyone: from those who love high school football to those to who have no idea about the game.\u201d &quot;This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room...&quot; Joe Torosian's high school football novel is available through Amazon.com (Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)\" width=\"429\" height=\"554\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-50812\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cThis is a great read for everyone: from those who love high school football to those who have no idea about the game.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u00a0 &#8220;This book brings you onto the field and into the locker room&#8230;&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><br \/><strong>Joe Torosian&#8217;s high school football novel is available through Amazon.com<\/strong><br \/><strong>(Cover by Pat Cherry www.blackheartart.com)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finlandia, a Division 3 school in Hancock, Michigan, opens the season September\u00a03 against Concordia (Wisconsin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Montebello) &#8211; Montebello quarterback\u00a0Ryan Rivera\u00a0has committed to Finlandia University assistant coach Pete Gonzalez Jr.\u00a0confirmed Wednesday.\u00a0<\/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":[871,3],"tags":[7009,11796,5761,8021,6370,8661,232,11797,9717,11755,7725],"class_list":["post-52787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college","category-high-school-sports","tag-almont-league","tag-finlandia-university-football","tag-mid-valley-sports","tag-montebello-football","tag-montebello-oilers-football","tag-mvs","tag-pete-gonzalez","tag-pete-gonzalez-jr","tag-ryan-rivera","tag-tangent-dreams","tag-viewpoint-football"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787","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=52787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52799,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52787\/revisions\/52799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}