{"id":78528,"date":"2022-12-21T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78528"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:24:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T02:24:39","slug":"mid-valley-sports-coach-of-the-year-kevin-encinas-san-gabriel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=78528","title":{"rendered":"Mid Valley Sports 2022 Coach of the Year: Kevin Encinas &#8211; San Gabriel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A0A3964-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-78370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A0A3964-2.jpg 778w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A0A3964-2-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A0A3964-2-53x70.jpg 53w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A0A3964-2-768x1011.jpg 768w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/A0A3964-2-114x150.jpg 114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><figcaption>Kevin Encinas is the Mid Valley Sports Coach of the Year. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>On Thursday night October 20th San Gabriel lost to Bell Gardens at home 27-15. The defeat was the third in the previous four games and left the Matadors at 5-3 overall but more importantly 1-3 in the Almont League. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>After starting the season with four straight victories the Mats were now struggling to keep their heads above water. But instead of folding the tent San Gabriel responded with an overtime win over Alhambra the following week to get into the CIF Division 13 playoffs. The Matadors then beat Alhambra again in the first round and proceeded to win their next three games as well including a 52-27 win over Bishop Montgomery to win the Division 13 Championship which was the first CIF Championship in school history.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Head Coach Kevin Encinas, who led San Gabriel to that first ever title, also guided the Mats to a victory over Kennedy (Granada Hills) in the State Bowl 6-A playoffs the next week before falling to Atascadero in the 6-A State Finals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Encinas led the Matadors the same way through-out the season- with a steady hand and a positive voice that kept San Gabriel on track. Even when things looked bleak after the loss to Bell Gardens Encinas never wavered, got his troops back on their feet and showed them the way to the CIF championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin Encinas is our Coach of the Year.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night October 20th San Gabriel lost to Bell Gardens at home 27-15. The defeat was the third in the previous four games and left the Matadors at 5-3 overall but more importantly 1-3 in the Almont League.<\/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-78528","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\/78528","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=78528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78532,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78528\/revisions\/78532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}