{"id":77880,"date":"2022-10-28T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=77880"},"modified":"2022-10-29T10:37:05","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T17:37:05","slug":"san-marino-stuns-south-pasadena-23-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=77880","title":{"rendered":"San Marino Stuns South Pasadena, 23-21"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Freshman Kicker Jacob Kreinbring booted the game winner for San Marino. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Rich Whittington <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(San Marino) – The South Pasadena Tigers were in a great position going into Friday\u2019s matchup against the rival San Marino Titans; they were 8-1, everyone predicted them to handily beat this week\u2019s opponent, and they had the playoffs firmly in their grasp. In fact, with all of these factors in place, some were asking why they even needed to play the game? Unfortunately for South Pas, someone forgot to tell the Titans that they were supposed to lose. As a result, the host Titans upset the visiting Tigers, 23-21, in front of a very enthusiastic crown Titans\u2019 Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n

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San Marino opened the scoring for the evening. After a scoreless first quarter, the Titans put together a 14 play, 91-yard drive that cumulated in a 1-yard TD blast by Ryan Singhal. The PAT was added by Freshman kicker Jacob Kreinbring, making the score 7-0, Titans, with 3:59 remaining in the game\u2019s opening half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Pasadena answered, when quarterback Jackson Freking crossed the goal line for a 13-yard score. The PAT was added by Aidan Kinney, which made the score 7-7 as the halftime buzzer sounded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Pasadena took the lead in the third quarter, when Freking scored his second rushing touchdown of the evening on a 15-yard scamper. Another Kinney PAT made the score 14-7 after three quarters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Marino tied the contest in the fourth quarter, when quarterback Brady Beck scored on a 1-yard TD plunge. Another Kreinbring PAT knotted the score at 14 with 8:38 remaining in the contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Marino took the lead a few minutes later, as Mikey Yessaian intercepted an errant Frecking pass and returned it 86-yards for the go-ahead score. Kreinbring\u2019s kick attempt was unsuccessful, making the score 20-14, with 4:03 remaining in the contest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Pasadena countered, taking the lead when Frecking connected with Quinn Stirling for a 42-yard touchdown. A third Kinney extra point gave the Tigers a 21-20 lead with 3:23 remaining in regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As poetic as it could possibly be, one of the game\u2019s biggest moments was provided by one of the Titans\u2019 youngest players. After putting together a 12-play, 48-yard drive, Kreinbring was called upon to attempt a game-winning 37-yard field goal. South Pasadena attempted to ice the young kicker by calling a timeout. When play resumed, South Pasadena was charged with a five-yard penalty, making the winning attempt 32-yards. The snap was perfect, the hold was perfect, and the kick, well, that was perfect as well, giving the Titans the lead, and the victory, 23-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result of this evening\u2019s events created a three-way tie for second place in the Rio Hondo League, between San Marino, South Pasadena, and La Canada. By league agreement, this tie was broken by the use of a scoring differential between the three teams involved. This established San Marino as the league\u2019s second place team. The third place finish was determined by head-to-head competition, which resulted in South Pasadena being declared as the third place finisher. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In short, both San Marino and South Pasadena have qualified for the CIF Playoffs. Their opponents, game locations, and kickoff times will be determined on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Rich Whittington (San Marino) – The South Pasadena Tigers were in a great position going into Friday\u2019s matchup against the rival San Marino Titans; they were 8-1, everyone predicted them to handily beat this week\u2019s opponent, and they had the playoffs firmly in their grasp. In fact, with all of these factors in place, […]<\/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-77880","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\/77880","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=77880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77882,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77880\/revisions\/77882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}