{"id":84591,"date":"2024-07-18T17:08:29","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T00:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=84591"},"modified":"2024-07-24T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T00:54:55","slug":"bechtel-resigns-at-damien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=84591","title":{"rendered":"Bechtel Resigns at Damien"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1392\" height=\"1058\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MATT-BECHTEL-2-.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MATT-BECHTEL-2-.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MATT-BECHTEL-2--395x300.jpg 395w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MATT-BECHTEL-2--70x53.jpg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MATT-BECHTEL-2--768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/MATT-BECHTEL-2--150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\" \/><figcaption>Matt Bechtel has stepped down at Damien after five seasons. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(La Verne) &#8211; Damien head football coach Matt Bechtel has stepped down after five years the school announced Thursday.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>The Spartans went 24-24 overall under Bechtel and 0-2 in the post season during the five-year run. Damien&#8217;s best year was last season as the Spartans went 8-3 and 3-1 in the Baseline league &#8211; tied for first place with Upland. They lost in the first round of the CIF Division 2 playoffs to Murrieta Valley 43-40. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damien also made the playoffs in 2019 in Bechtel&#8217;s first year. The Spartans went 5-6 overall and fell in the first round of the CIF Division 4 playoffs to Camarillo 34-28.    <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damien went 3-7 in 2021 and &#8217;22 and missed the playoffs both years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damien did have an altercation with Upland earlier this year in the handshake line at the end of a passing league game in the Mission Viejo Tournament but it was not confirmed that the incident had anything to do with Bechtel&#8217;s resignation.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assistant coach James Stewart, who was the defensive coordinator last year, was named the Interim Head Coach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the statement released by the school:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"822\" height=\"1702\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2.jpg 822w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2-145x300.jpg 145w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2-34x70.jpg 34w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2-768x1590.jpg 768w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2-742x1536.jpg 742w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Damien-announcement-of-bechtels-resignation-2-72x150.jpg 72w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 822px) 100vw, 822px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tim Peterson (La Verne) &#8211; Damien head football coach Matt Bechtel has stepped down after five years the school announced Thursday.<\/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-84591","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\/84591","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=84591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84599,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591\/revisions\/84599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}