{"id":78357,"date":"2022-12-03T02:07:54","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T09:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78357"},"modified":"2022-12-03T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:20:30","slug":"late-rally-sinks-downey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78357","title":{"rendered":"Late Rally Sinks Downey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bryant Carey had a touchdown receiving and a touchdown rushing. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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

(Downey) – Downey built a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter but couldn’t hang on and fell to Mater Dei Catholic 22-21 Friday night in the Division 2-AA Regional State Bowl at Allen Layne Stadium. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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Anthony McMillan Jr. scored on a three-yard run with 3:51 left in the game and Paulo Aranalde’s extra point gave Mater Dei a 22-21 lead. It was the Crusaders first lead of the contest and they made it stand up to get the victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The score was set up by 97-yard pass play from Dominic Nankil to Rollin George down to the Vikings three-yard line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mater Dei then recovered the ensuing onside kick but Downey came up with a fourth down stop at its own 34. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vikings took over with one last shot to win it at the 34 with 1:52 left. They moved the ball down to the Mater Dei 40-yard line behind the passing of Aidan Chiles but DJ Overstreet stepped in front of a Chiles pass with 13 seconds left to seal Downey’s fate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ian Hernandez had five catches for 84 yards including a 35-yard TD grab. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Vikes looked good early. They drove 68-yards on 8 plays on the first possession of the game. Chiles hit Bryant Carey with a 40-yard touchdown strike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downey’s defense picked off Nankil on Mater Dei’s first two series. Anthony Irons and Jordan Arias both had interceptions leading to scores. On the Vikings second possession, starting on a short field after Arias’ pick the Vikings took a 14-0 lead as Carey scored again. This time he did it on the ground taking a handoff and going 16 yards to paydirt for a two-touchdown lead with 2:50 left in the first quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downey struck quickly on the first play of the second quarter. Chiles fired a dart over the middle of the field to a streaking Ian Hernandez who danced into the endzone for a 35-yard touchdown. Three possessions, three scores and Downey was up 21-0. It was the last time they would score. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mater Dei Catholic began to mount its comeback. First a bad snap by Downey in its own endzone on a punt attempt led to a safety for the Crusaders and made it 21-2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two minutes later, after a good punt return, Jerry Flo McClure hauled in a five-yard pass from Nankil and with 2:18 left in the second quarter it was 21-8 Downey. The Vikings took that lead into the half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late in the third quarter Mater Dei marched 50 yards on 11 plays with Anthony McMillan Jr. capping it with a one-yard run. The extra point made it 21-15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the fourth quarter Nankil’s big pass play to George set up the game winner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chiles threw for 233 yards and two touchdowns for Downey and Carey had five catches for 90 yards and a score and one rushing touchdown. Hernndez grabbed five receptions for 84 yards and a TD. All good numbers but it wasn’t enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mater Dei led for only three minutes and 51 seconds but it proved to be enough for the win. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Downey has a CIF Championship to boast about in 2022 and finished the campaign with an overall record of 12-3. Mater Dei Catholic improved to 10-4 and will now play for a State title next weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (Downey) – Downey built a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter but couldn’t hang on and fell to Mater Dei Catholic 22-21 Friday night in the Division 2-AA Regional State Bowl 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-78357","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\/78357","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=78357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78365,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78357\/revisions\/78365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}