{"id":74073,"date":"2021-10-23T00:24:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T07:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=74073"},"modified":"2021-10-24T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T18:08:48","slug":"la-serna-overwhelms-el-rancho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=74073","title":{"rendered":"La Serna Overwhelms El Rancho"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Owen Long contributed on defense as well as two scores on offense.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Duane Barker<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Pico Rivera) In a highly anticipated matchup the La Serna Lancers and the El Rancho Dons had one more go in their heated Del Rio League rivalry. Friday night belonged to the Lancers as they handed the Dons their first defeat of 2021 to the tune of 42-7 at El Rancho High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Jake Long threw for 301 yards and a touchdown to lead the Lancers to the Del Rio League title and keep the momentum of a seven game winning streak heading into post season. Only Whittier is left on the agenda for La Serna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other side of the line of scrimmage Elijah Mitchell had his first rough outing for the Dons. Mitchell did throw for more than 200 yards but had only one touchdown and four costly interceptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Serna did the first bit of damage close to midway through the first quarter. Long capped a nine play 70-yard drive with a 13-yard strike to Jake George. Long stayed on the field to boot through the extra point to give the Lancers the 7-0 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 7-0 advantage would remain for La Serna until early in the second. Sanaa Aguirre powered his way into the endzone on a 9-yard run to finish off 70-yard drive. Again Long did the kicking duty and pushed the lead to 14-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jake Long was on point in and out of the pocket Friday night.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Aguirre got his second score on the night this time from seven yards away just a few minutes later. The two play 54-yard drive was set up by Mitchell’s first pick on the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both defenses stiffened up at this point and neither team would see paydirt for the rest of the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up 21-0 La Serna got the ball to start the second have and immediately went to work on a 6-play 65-yard drive. Owen Long got the call this time and scored on a 5-yard run. Once more Jake Long added the extra point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After an offensive drought that lasted deep into the third quarter, El Rancho went on an 18-play drive that chewed up 60-yards finished off with a two yard pass from Mitchell to Anthony Bonilla. Jacob Medina added the extra point but it would be a close as the Dons would get at 28-7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two fourth quarter scores, Owen Long’s second and another by Adrian Castro finished off the score for La Serna.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Rancho will now have a week off in anticipation of the CIF Playoff pairings which will be held after next weekends contests are completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Duane Barker (Pico Rivera) In a highly anticipated matchup the La Serna Lancers and the El Rancho Dons had one more go in their heated Del Rio League rivalry. Friday night belonged to the Lancers as they handed the Dons their first defeat of 2021 to the tune of 42-7 at El Rancho High […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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-74073","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\/74073","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74105,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74073\/revisions\/74105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}