{"id":83021,"date":"2024-02-14T20:04:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-15T03:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=83021"},"modified":"2024-02-15T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2024-02-15T23:37:05","slug":"novoa-steps-down-at-bell-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=83021","title":{"rendered":"Novoa Steps Down at Bell Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Bell Gardens) &#8211; Hector Novoa has stepped down as the head football coach at Bell Gardens after two years he confirmed Wednesday.  <\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>Novoa led the Lancers to a CIF Division 14 Championship last year as they beat Lynwood 27-14 in the Finals. It was the school&#8217;s first ever CIF Championship. Then after beating Jordan in the first round of the D-7 Regional State Bowl they advanced to the State Regional Championship where the Lancers fell to Strathmore 42-7. Bell Gardens went 10-6 overall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, in Novoa&#8217;s first season, Bell Gardens won the Almont League with a 5-0 record and finished 7-4 overall and lost in the first round of the Division 11 playoffs to Bellflower. Under Novoa Bell Gardens went 17-10 in his two-year stint.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Novoa was named Almont League Coach of the Year in 2022 and &#8217;23 and was also named CIF Coach of the Year in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After two solid years Novoa&#8217;s coaching days may not be over. He could land a job on another High School staff in the area if the right opportunity arises. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bell Gardens will begin the search for a new head coach immediately. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (Bell Gardens) &#8211; Hector Novoa has stepped down as the head football coach at Bell Gardens after two years he confirmed Wednesday.<\/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-83021","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\/83021","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=83021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83045,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83021\/revisions\/83045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}