By Rich Whittington<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(El Monte) The El Monte Lions found just enough offense to edge the visiting Mt. View Vikings Friday evening, 12-7, in front of a spirited Homecoming crowd at El Monte Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n
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The game was played almost entirely on the ground. Of the 108 plays that were run, only five were passing plays. This provided a quick- passed contest, that saw the clock stop only for changes of possession, an occasional injury, and for the myriad of penalties that seemed to haunt both teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Monte posted the first score of the contest, when RB Saul Sanchez found the end zone on a 1-yard TD blast with 3:00 remaining in the opening quarter. The 2-Point PAT attempt was unsuccessful, giving the Lions a 6-0 lead as the fist quarter came to a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
El Monte increased their lead in the second quarter\u2026on virtually the exact same play. Sanchez\u2019s second 1-yard run, and the second unsuccessful 2-Point PAT attempt, made the score 12-0, with 8:44 remaining in the period. This would end the scoring for quarter #2, giving El Monte a 12-0 lead at the intermission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quarter 3 provided a fair share of excitement. Mt. View had the ball, 1st<\/sup> and goal, from the El Monte 3-yard line, when quarterback Enrique Ochoa fumbled. The ball was recovered by El Monte’s Jimmy Gonzales, giving El Monte the ball on their own 1-yard line, momentarily ending the Mt. View scoring Threat. As one good \u201cturnover\u201d deserves another, El Monte RB Nathan Guevara would record a fumble of his own. The ball was recovered by the Viking\u2019s Jared Gonzalez, giving Mt. View possession, 1st<\/sup> and goal, on the EM 9-yard line, as the third stanza came to a close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mt. View cut the lead to 12-7 early in the games final period, when Ochoa scored on a 9-yard TD run. Diego Hernandez\u2019s added the PAT to end the MT. View scoring. The Vikingss would have one final opportunity. With 1:40 remaining in regulation, and Mt. View driving, Ochoa was intercepted by Lion\u2019s CB Aldieri Montero, thusly ending the threat, and securing the victory for EMHS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Lion\u2019s (2-4, 1-1 in Mission Valley League play) next game is scheduled for 10\/15\/21, when the Lions will host the South El Monte Eagles, in the annual Griffin Bowl. Mt. View\u2019s (2-4, 0-2 in the MVL) next contest, also on 10\/15\/21, is a home affair against the Gabrielino Eagles. Game time for both battles is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Rich Whittington (El Monte) The El Monte Lions found just enough offense to edge the visiting Mt. View Vikings Friday evening, 12-7, in front of a spirited Homecoming crowd at El Monte Stadium.<\/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":[12816,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball","category-high-school-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73797","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=73797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73798,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73797\/revisions\/73798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}