{"id":84796,"date":"2024-08-05T18:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T01:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=84796"},"modified":"2024-08-07T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T01:06:11","slug":"rio-hondo-league-at-a-glance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=84796","title":{"rendered":"Rio Hondo League at a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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San Marino and Brady Beck are poised to have a big year. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This has been Monrovia’s league for the better part of the last two decades. Except for the occasional uprising of a San Marino or South Pasadena the Wildcats have ruled the roost. Last year Monrovia finished in a three-way tie for first place. The Wildcats lost to South Pasadena while South Pas fell to San Marino. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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This year could be more of the same. Monrovia lost quarterback Brian Salazar to graduation as well as talented receiver Noah Ellison. Monrovia will turn to freshman Jesse Saucedo Jr. to fill the void at quarterback while Joshua Griffiths, coming off a season in which he hauled in 46 passes for 702 yards and 7 touchdowns returns at wide receiver. Vincent Paez who had over 500 yards receiving a year ago, is back as well. Linebacker Troy Grise, 90 total tackles last year, along with Lucas Martinez and Dominic Lino will anchor the defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk about Temple City and you’re talking about Judah Douglas. As a receiver he had 70 catches for 1,110 yards and 15 touchdowns. Yes, that’s one thousand one hundred and ten yards. He’s back and he is a game changer. He will be quarterback Jake Leone’s favorite target and will be the main cog in the Rams’ offense. Christian Gomez should be a mainstay on defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Marino looks like the team that has the best shot to win the Rio Hondo crown. Quarterback Brady Beck is back after throwing for over 1,600 yards last year. He will be protected by Brown commit Mitch Mooney who had 35 pancake blocks last season. I love that stat! Mooney will also play on the defensive side of the ball where he loves to chase down quarterbacks. He had 85 total tackles last year to go along with 9 sacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Receiver JJ Wilson, 215 yards last year, returns as a receiver to connect with Beck. Julian Solis rushed for 327 yards and 5 scores last season and will help balance the Titans attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Canada lost a lot to graduation but the Spartans do have some talent returning. Sohan Garg, 200 yards rushing last season, will be relied on to tote the rock. Defensively Josh Carruthers, who had 62 total tackles in 2023 will be a force as will Spencer Turner, 41 tackles last year. River Wokosin (cool name) will be lurking on the front line where he had 4 sacks a year ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Hong graduated from South Pasadena in June and took his 2,063 yards and 39 touchdowns with him. To lose the Mid Valley Sports MVP is definitely a blow to the Tigers. They’ll land on their feet though. Zach Lee is back at quarterback. Last season he passed for 597 yards and 6 touchdowns when he wasn’t handing the ball to Hong. You may see those numbers increase as the passing attack grows. David Ortega averaged 9 tackles per game last year and will be a stalwart on defense. James Dowd, 11 sacks and David Eisenberg who picked off 3 passes in ’23 return as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everson Mathis threw for 2,214 yards and 6 touchdowns last season for Pasadena Poly. Mathis also rushed for 470 yards and six scores. There’s no truth to the rumor that he also directed the band at halftime. That’s the good news. Here’s the bad news. He transferred to Village Christian. AB Shorter had 172 yards last year and he returns at receiver. Linebacker Charlie Brogge, 36 total tackles and TJ Mcelrath, 3 sacks, will be up front to shore up the defense. The question is with Mathis gone do they have enough to compete? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Projected Order of Finish <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. San Marino – Beck + Mooney = Victory. <\/li>
  2. Monrovia – Wildcats will find a way. <\/li>
  3. South Pasadena – Hong is gone but Zach is back! <\/li>
  4. La Canada – The Spartans will need to knock off one of the big boys.<\/li>
  5. Temple City – Judah Douglas is worth the price of admission. <\/li>
  6. Pasadena Poly – Can Poly compete for a playoff spot? <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

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    This has been Monrovia’s league for the better part of the last two decades. Except for the occasional uprising of a San Marino or South Pasadena the Wildcats have ruled the roost. Last year Monrovia finished in a three-way tie for first place. The Wildcats lost to South Pasadena while South Pas fell to San […]<\/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-84796","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\/84796","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=84796"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84825,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84796\/revisions\/84825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}