{"id":91435,"date":"2025-08-22T23:49:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=91435"},"modified":"2025-08-26T18:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T01:30:24","slug":"vikings-cruz-through-green-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=91435","title":{"rendered":"Vikings Cruz Through Green Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jacob Cruz’s two third quarter touchdowns help turn the tide for the Vikings in Green Valley. (Photo By Duane Barker)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

By Joe Torosian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Henderson, Nevada)\u2014After traveling 248 miles from home and hitting the field in triple-digit heat, a slow start by the Northview Vikings could be understood, if not expected. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

But a 10-0 first-half deficit was overcome by five second-half touchdowns and a 35-10 victory over the Green Valley Gators on Friday night in Henderson, Nevada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Viking attack scored on its first possession of the third quarter. Quarterback Robert Lucero connected on a 36-yard strike to Aiden Jimenez that carried the ball to the Gators’ one.
Two plays later, Rudy Velazquez punched to paydirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Green Valley’s next possession, Northview linebacker Jacob Cruz forced a fumble and returned it 18 yards for a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Down 14-10, the Gators got the ball back and ran four plays. On the fifth, Cruz picked off Green Valley quarterback Michael Lewis and raced 42 yards for another touchdown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gators’ next three possessions ended with punts as the Viking defense took control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On offense, Robert Lucero (14\/25\/196yds-TD) heated up the connection with his brother, Isaiah Lucero (9-catches\/116yds\/TD). The Vikings added two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Isaiah Lucero caught a late touchdown pass to put the final dagger in Green Valley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jaishon Bledsoe’s 6-yard touchdown run with 7:40 to play was set up by a 37-yard pass and catch from Robert to Isaiah. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The brothers closed out the scoring at the 3:43 mark when Robert picked up a bad snap and went 27 yards to Isaiah for the score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening of the contest was far less promising for the visitors. Robert Lucero was sacked, and that was followed by an errant snap that lost another 12 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gators scored on their first possession when Clayton Floyd plowed in from a yard out to make it 7-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rest of the half played out with missed opportunities and some questionable calls on offense for the Vikings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Matthew Poluan and the Northview defense came up big.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Green Valley drive at the end of the half saw the Gators reach the Northview three. But a holding penalty moved the ball back to the 13. From there, Raedon Michaels’ 30-yard kick added the Gators’ final three points of the night and a 10-0 lead at the break.<\/p>\n\n\n

Starting on the offensive line for the Vikings:<\/p>\n

LT: Alan Erasto
LG: Pedro Solarzano
C: Willy Labra
RG: Grey Diaz
RT: Zach Carr<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Joe Torosian (Henderson, Nevada)\u2014After traveling 248 miles from home and hitting the field in triple-digit heat, a slow start by the Northview Vikings could be understood, if not expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12816],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hsfootball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91435","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91435"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91536,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91435\/revisions\/91536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}