{"id":74152,"date":"2021-10-30T00:35:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T07:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=74152"},"modified":"2021-10-30T02:30:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T09:30:47","slug":"warren-wins-league-title-still-undefeated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=74152","title":{"rendered":"Warren Wins League Title; Still Undefeated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Warren defense put the heat on Downey quarterback Noah Paez. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Downey) – Warren wrapped up the San Gabriel Valley League title and an undefeated regular season with a 26-16 win over Downey Friday night before a packed house at Allen Layne Stadium. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Nico Imaleava threw for 225 yards and a touchdown and also rushed for a score. The Bears scored first on a three -yard touchdown run by Marcus Higgs in the first quarter to take a 6-0 lead after a missed extra point. Downey responded later in the first with two-yard touchdown blast by Keion Andrew to take a 7-6 lead. Warren took the lead for good in the second quarter and never let it go. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marcus Higgs, shown here hurdling a defender, scored twice for Warren. (Photo by Duane Barker).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Early in the second the Bears drove 56 yards on six plays with Romeo Clark hauling in a 12-yard pass from Imaleava for a 14-7 lead. Imaleava ran in the two point conversion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both teams had opportunities in the first half. Imaleava fumbled at the Downey one-yard line and the Vikings recovered to stop a threat. Downey was stopped twice on fourth down in the red zone which could have led to game tying touchdowns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nico Imaleava threw for a touchdown and ran for one in the Bears victory. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Downey cut the lead to four early in the third quarter on a 23-yard field goal by Isaac Madrid but Warren answered with 60-yard drive capped by an 11-yard Imaleava run with 6:09 left in the third quarter to make it 20-10. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The dagger came in the fourth quarter when Higgs picked up his second touchdown of the night on a two-yard run to finish a 61-yard march. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vikings managed a touchdown with 38 seconds left on a 13-yard touchdown strike from Paez to Bryant Carey to account for the final tally. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren had two turnovers which cost the Bears points in the first half. The Vikes turned it over once – a key fumble in the second half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higgs also had 4 caches for 43 yards for Warren and Jordan Anderson had 3 for 39. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Downey Paez had 324 yards passing with Isaiah Blair hauling in 5 catches for 151 yards but the Vikings had trouble cashing in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the victory Warren improved to 8-0 and will now await to see where it lands in the CIF playoffs. Downey fell to 8-2 and the Vikings will also find out Sunday who and where they will play in the first round of the post season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Downey) – Warren wrapped up the San Gabriel Valley League title and an undefeated regular season with a 26-16 win over Downey Friday night before a packed house at Allen Layne Stadium.<\/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":[12816,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74152","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\/74152","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=74152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74170,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74152\/revisions\/74170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}