{"id":81559,"date":"2023-10-20T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T08:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=81559"},"modified":"2023-10-27T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T07:38:17","slug":"its-all-ayala-in-the-mountain-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=81559","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All Ayala in the Mountain West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By George Hernandez <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Covina] &#8211; Marquis Monroe had three scores and the defense had four takeaways in Ayala\u2019s 45-10 Mountain West League victory Thursday night at Charter Oak.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Chargers started off bad when Isaiah Perez fumbled the opening kickoff giving the Bulldogs a short field resulting in a 25-yard field goal from Nick Lane.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charter Oak punted on its first drive.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Monroe broke for his first touchdown of the game &#8211; an 82-yarder to paydirt for Ayala midway through the first quarter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chargers took the field and gave the ball right back when a Corin Berry pass was tipped and picked off by Drew Amico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bulldogs took advantage as Monroe again scored on a two-yard plunge into the end zone making it 17-0.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams exchanged punts on their next possessions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charter Oak got on the board when Carson Cordova hit a 43-yard field goal late in the second quarter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayala answered right back and then some when quarterback Maximus Barroso hit Jaden Valenzuela putting the score at 24-3 at the half.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bulldogs took over first in the second half and Monroe got his third score of the night when he caught a 35-yard pass from Barroso.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chargers showed some fight and pounded the ball down the field and capped the drive with a three-yard dive into the end zone from Curtiss Taylor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ayala punted but Alden Santos picked off a Perry pass and took it 55-yards for the score making it 38-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perry then lost a fumble on the next Charter Oak possession.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulldogs couldn\u2019t capitalize this time as Lane missed a 50-yard field goal. But they did get the ball right back when Dawaun Nettingham II intercepted another Perry pass.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time Barroso scored himself for Ayala when he pushed it in from one yard out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bulldogs improved to 5-4 and have a date with Alta Loma next week while the Chargers (2-7) will face Bonita in the regular season finale. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Hernandez [Covina] &#8211; Marquis Monroe had three scores and the defense had four takeaways in Ayala\u2019s 45-10 Mountain West League victory Thursday night at Charter Oak.&nbsp;<\/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-81559","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\/81559","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=81559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81699,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81559\/revisions\/81699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}