By Geoff Hurts <\/p>\n\n\n\n
[Bell Gardens] – Sierra Vista and Bell Gardens slugged it out in the first half. The Lancers took control in the second half and ended up with a 40-14 victory Friday night at The Garden.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n
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The Lancers punted twice and the Dons fumbled twice in the first half. The lone score came on a 12-yard pass from Jacob Reyes to Gerardo Gutierrez to take a 7-0 lead late in the first quarter.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the first play of the second half Sierra Vista quarterback Andre Mallory fumbled a handoff and gave the ball to Bell Gardens on their 15-yard line. A few plays later Gutierrez scored his second touchdown with a four-yard run.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the kickoff return Gabriel Garcia fumbled and gave the ball right to the Lancers and three plays later Reyes then found the end zone with a 16-yard run to paydirt.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another fumble by Garcia set up a Bell Gardens score this time from 20-yards out from Daniel Tovar making it 27-0 after a missed extra point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A turnover on downs for the Dons would be next but they held up and forced a Lancers punt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sierra Vista got on the board for the first time midway through the fourth quarter when Robert Rodriguez pounded through the defense for a 10-yard run. The two-point conversion was missed leaving it at 27-6.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tovar would break a 70-yard touchdown run for the Lancers making it 34-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mallory carried the Dons up the field and finished it off with a one-yard quarterback keeper to make the score 34-14.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the returning kickoff Julio Garciazo found a hole and with 11-seconds left in the game scored the touchdown for a 40-14.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Dons go home to face Ontario next week while Bell Gardens will head to Pico and face El Rancho.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n By Geoff Hurts [Bell Gardens] – Sierra Vista and Bell Gardens slugged it out in the first half. The Lancers took control in the second half and ended up with a 40-14 victory Friday night at The Garden.\u00a0<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80345","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=80345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80346,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80345\/revisions\/80346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/td> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"