{"id":93322,"date":"2025-11-22T01:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T08:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=93322"},"modified":"2025-11-22T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:55:49","slug":"rio-hondo-rout-finals-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=93322","title":{"rendered":"Rio Hondo Rout; Finals Next"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Yanick Diaz threw two touchdown passes and also had 31 yards rushing. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By Tim Peterson <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(West Covina) – Rio Hondo Prep rushed for 309 yards and the defense did the rest in a 35-6 rout of La Serna Friday night in the CIF Division 5 Semi-Finals at West Covina High School. The Kares will now have a shot at their third consecutive CIF Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The key moment in the contest came with 21 seconds left in the second quarter. La Serna, down 21-6, drove 84 yards down to the Rio Hondo Prep one-yard line. The Lancers went for it on fourth and goal but quarterback Grady Long was stonewalled at the one and the Kares had held. instead of a one score game, Rio Hondo Prep took the two-touchdown lead into halftime and was never challenged again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Christian Lee had a touchdown catch and over 60 yards rushing. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Kares marched 78 yards on nine plays on the opening possession. Yanick Diaz hit a wide-open Christian Lee with a 13-yard touchdown pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After forcing a La Serna punt Rio Hondo put together another drive. This time they went 63 yards. Noah Penunuri busted in from the one -yard line to cap it and make it 14-0 early in the second quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La Serna got on the board on the next possession. Jordan Bonilla got loose for a 57-yard touchdown run. The extra point was blocked leaving the score at 14-6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Noah Penunuri had 96 yards and a touchdown in the first half. (Photo by Duane Barker). <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Kares had one more big strike left in the first half. Elias Har hauled in a 37-yard touchdown pass from Diaz on a throw that appeared would be intercepted. Har made a play and pulled it away from the La Serna defender and scooted into the endzone for a 21-6 advantage with 2:03 left in the first half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kares then made the big stop to close out the half. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Lancers couldn’t get anything going offensively in the second half. They were stopped on fourth down twice and on the last two possessions Long was intercepted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penunuri didn’t play for Rio Hondo Prep in the second half due to a high ankle injury but the Kares had other players step up. Calogero Chico ran through the La Serna secondary for a 29-yard touchdown run late in the third quarter. In the fourth Devin Gomez scored on a two-yard run with just over three minutes left to ice it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kares had seven different players carry the ball. On defense Isaac Guzman and Har had the interceptions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Penunuri finished with 96 yards and a touchdown on 16 carries. Nathaniel Shine rushed for 58 yards on 15 carriers and Lee had 8 rushes and the touchdown reception. Diaz was 4 for 4 through the air for 92 yards and two touchdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For La Serna Long threw for 132 yards but was hurt by the two picks. Other than Bonilla’s big run the Lancers couldn’t establish the ground game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lancers end the season 9-4 overall while Rio Hondo Prep remained perfect at 13-0 and will face Redondo Union next week for the CIF Division 5 title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LS 0 6 0 0 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RH 7 14 7 7 35 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Tim Peterson (West Covina) – Rio Hondo Prep rushed for 309 yards and the defense did the rest in a 35-6 rout of La Serna Friday night in the CIF Division 5 Semi-Finals at West Covina High School. The Kares will now have a shot at their third consecutive CIF Championship.<\/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-93322","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\/93322","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=93322"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93346,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93322\/revisions\/93346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}