{"id":71973,"date":"2021-05-26T21:09:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=71973"},"modified":"2021-05-26T21:34:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T04:34:19","slug":"romero-rocks-lions-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=71973","title":{"rendered":"Romero Rocks, Lions Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"728\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1076-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1076-copy-1.jpg 728w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1076-copy-1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1076-copy-1-50x70.jpg 50w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1076-copy-1-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 728px) 100vw, 728px\" \/><figcaption>Casey Romero leads the Lions into the second round! (Photo by Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(El Monte) &#8211; Casey Romero scored 32 points to lead El Monte to a 78-35 rout of Geffen Academy Wednesday night in the first round of the CIF Division 5AA playoffs in the Lions Den. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Romero hit three three pointers and scored 17 points in the first quarter alone as the Lions jumped out to a 25-13 lead. Romero nailed six threes overall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El&nbsp; Monte continued to pour it on in the second quarter lighting it up for another 27 points and outscoring the Geffens 27-11 in the quarter to take a 52-24 lead at the half. Sometimes when someone says &#8216;It was over by halftime&#8221; it&#8217;s usually an exaggeration. Well this was no exaggeration. It was indeed over by halftime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Geffen Academy managed only five&nbsp; points in the third quarter and the Lions were up 72-29 after three before emptying the bench in the fourth quarter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1073-copy-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-71982\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1073-copy-1.jpg 683w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1073-copy-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1073-copy-1-47x70.jpg 47w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/A0A1073-copy-1-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Josh Penunuri joined Romero in double figures for El Monte with 22 including a pair of threes. Penunuri had ten points in the Lions big second quarter. The two combined for 54 of the team&#8217;s 78 points. Yahir Martinez added nine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Geffen Academy Nolan Wang led the team with 14 points while Cypress Ohebsron was also in doubles with 11. Geffen Academy was a surprise entry into the post season as they were winless on the season. They finished 0-6 overall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lions, 10-3 overall, march into the second round.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GA 13 11&nbsp; 5&nbsp; 6&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;35&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>EM 25&nbsp; 27 20&nbsp; 6&nbsp; &nbsp; 78<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (El Monte) &#8211; Casey Romero scored 32 points to lead El Monte to a 78-35 rout of Geffen Academy Wednesday night in the first round of the CIF Division 5AA playoffs in the Lions Den.<\/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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71973","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=71973"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71985,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71973\/revisions\/71985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}