{"id":76881,"date":"2022-09-02T00:27:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T07:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=76881"},"modified":"2022-09-02T00:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T07:58:42","slug":"the-monrovia-machine-keeps-churning-58-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=76881","title":{"rendered":"The Monrovia Machine Keeps Churning, 58-26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Marcel Jones scored four times for Monrovia. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

(Pico Rivera) – Monrovia racked up 623 total yards and rolled to a 58-26 victory over El Rancho Thursday night at Don Memorial Stadium. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Wildcats scored on all of their seven possessions in the first half to take a 44-20 lead into halftime. Brian Salazar hit Jaylen Moore on an 82-yard touchdown strike on their first possession and they took off from there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Carlos Hernandez outran the El Rancho secondary for 208 yards and a touchdown on 9 catches. (Photo by Duane Barker).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Marcel Jones scored four times for Monrovia including twice in the first half on touchdown runs of 9 and 20 yards. Salazar found Noah Ellison on consecutive scoring passes in the second quarter on quick strikes of 46 and 50 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Hernandez, after having a touchdown reception called back on a penalty, scored on the very next play hauling in a Salazar pass for a 52-yard score to make it 37-20. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After El Rancho was stopped on fourth down at the Monrovia 32, the Cats took advantage marching right down the field with Salazar connecting with Jack Zinn on an 11-yard TD pass with 15 seconds left in the first half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Rancho tried to respond in the first half. Angel Diaz turned a screen pass from Ryan Vasquez into a 60-yard touchdown early in the first quarter. Antonio Carbajal scored on a nine-yard run with 42 seconds left in the first quarter to cut Monrovia’s lead to 18-13. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Ellison hauled in his two touchdown receptions at the outset of the second quarter to put the Cats up 30-13, Daniel Rodriguez went in from 8 yards out for the Dons to cut the lead to 10. But every time ER gained any momentum Monrovia would shut it down with a quick strike offensively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monrovia’s next two scores by Zinn and Hernandez to close out the first half spelled the end for El Rancho. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Rancho had one more murmur of protest when Antonio Carbajal rumbled 55 yards for a score in the third quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones got touchdown number three when he recovered a botched snap by El Rancho on a punt attempt later in the third and then added a little gravy with an 85-yard run with 55 seconds left in the third for the final score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Angel Diaz scored on a 60-yrd catch and run in the first quarter. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

El Rancho had a nice night offensively as well. Vasquez completed 15 of 26 for 212 yards and two touchdowns but also threw two interceptions. Diaz had four receptions for 125 yards and a score. Carbajal rushed for 122 yards and a one touchdown rushing and one receiving. The Dons had 428 total yards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salazar was 20 of 31 for 450 yards and 5 touchdowns. Hernandez continued to torture defensive coordinators as he racked up 208 yards and a touchdown on 9 receptions. Jones ran for 135 yards and 3 touchdowns on 11 carries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wildcats improved to 3-0 on the year while the Dons suffered their first loss and fell to 2-1. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Pico Rivera) – Monrovia racked up 623 total yards and rolled to a 58-26 victory over El Rancho Thursday night at Don Memorial 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-76881","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\/76881","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=76881"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76892,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76881\/revisions\/76892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}