{"id":7712,"date":"2010-07-12T23:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T06:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7712"},"modified":"2010-07-13T10:20:44","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T17:20:44","slug":"meanwhile-back-at-the-d-ranch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7712","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile Back at the D-Ranch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Diamond Ranch Coach Roddy Layton preparing for 2010 <\/p><\/div>\n

(Pomona) \u2013 Charter Oak has moved out of the Southeast Division along with South Hills. But the team that has appeared in the last two CIF Finals is still there. Diamond Ranch is in a different league now \u2013 the Hacienda- but the Panthers are still front and center in the Southeast.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s always a little bit of a target on your back when\u00a0 you\u2019ve appeared in back to back CIF Finals,\u201d said Diamond Ranch Coach Roddy Layton. \u201cI mean Charter Oak and South Hills are gone but it\u2019s still a very strong division.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diamond Ranch is now in the Hacienda League with Bonita, Rowland, Walnut, Los Altos, Diamond Bar and West Covina. And although the big two have moved on the Suburban League featuring such teams as Norwalk, La Mirada and Mayfair have moved in.<\/p>\n

The Panthers have graduated several key players such as quarterback Gus Viramontes, receivers Elisha Henley and Brandon Taylor and running back Amari Staten. But there are players coming in that could immediately step up and make an impact.<\/p>\n

Chase Price will be the primary running back and he has been impressive so far in summer drills.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has been running the ball well and has been catching everything in sight,\u201d Layton said. \u201cWe finished third at the St. Bonnie tournament over the weekend and Chase was great.\u201d<\/p>\n

Price recently got an offer from San Diego State.<\/p>\n

Jacoby Carter, who was an important part of the Diamond Ranch attack last year, is back\u00a0to carry the rock as well.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cesar Carrillo will step in at quarterback. Carrillo has Diamond Ranch football in his genes.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis brother Joe was our quarterback before Gus arrived. So now we have Cesar,\u201d Layton said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t know who our quarterback was going to be when he graduated and Gus worked out pretty well. So now we weren\u2019t sure who the guy was going to be when Gus graduated but we are happy with Cesar. He can beat you with his arms and legs just like Gus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aaron Almond has already been getting D-1 looks. He will line up at receiver and running back for the Panthers but he is projected as a defensive back in college. New Mexico State and Colorado State are among the schools that like Almond.<\/p>\n

Receivers Marquis Cherry and Andrew Fischer should contribute for the Panthers as well but are currently nursing injuries.<\/p>\n

Up front D-Ranch will be relying on tight end Bryant Cox, center Jeremy Stucker, and right tackle Omar Sanchez.<\/p>\n

Reports of numbers being down at Diamond Ranch have been greatly exaggerated. At least 50-55 players were patrolling the practice field late Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never had real big numbers on the varsity. The last couple of years we\u2019ve had about 35,\u201d Layton added. \u201cNumbers wise we\u2019ll be fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Diamond Ranch typically plays a brutal non league schedule and 2010 appears to be no exception. The Panthers open with\u00a0Santa Margarita, and then get Damien, Elsinore and Chaffey before hosting Diamond Bar to begin\u00a0Hacienda League play on October 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Pomona) \u2013 Charter Oak has moved out of the Southeast Division along with South Hills. But the team that has appeared in the last two CIF Finals is still there. Diamond Ranch is in a different league now \u2013 the Hacienda- but the Panthers are still front and center in the Southeast.<\/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":[3399,675,3401,1141,1520,1140,737,1560,3402,3400,2783,671],"class_list":["post-7712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-high-school-sports","tag-aaron-allmond","tag-amari-staten","tag-bryant-cox","tag-cesar-carrillo","tag-chase-price","tag-elisha-henley","tag-gus-viramontes","tag-jacoby-carter","tag-jeremy-stucker","tag-marquis-cherry","tag-omar-sanchez","tag-roddy-layton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712","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=7712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7715,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7712\/revisions\/7715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}