{"id":99770,"date":"2026-10-24T01:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=99770"},"modified":"2026-10-24T01:34:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T08:34:01","slug":"don-defense-on-display-against-bell-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=99770","title":{"rendered":"Don Defense on Display against Bell Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Ranch’s defense held the potent Lancer run game in check.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(Pico Rivera, CA) – In what was essentially the Metro League title match between the El Rancho Dons (6-2, 1-0) and the Bell Gardens Lancers (7-1,1-0) the Dons dominated the game defensively en route to a 25-0 victory at El Rancho High School Friday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

While other SGV schools were under threat of weather, the air was cool and dry in Pico Rivera as the two top Metro League schools went at it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both teams defenses took over the early part of the contest and it wasn’t until early in the second quarter that either teams got points on the board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An eight-play Don drive stalled at the Lancer three-yard line and Ace Anaya came on to boot a 20-yard field goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ray Madrid III with two big scores for El Rancho.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Later in the quarter Bell Gardens drove the ball deep into El Rancho territory, but the drive stalled at the Don 20. Jason Salceda came on to attempt a 38-yard field goal but his attempt sailed wide left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dons took over on their 20 and went on an eight play, 80-yard drive capped by a 32-yard touchdown pass from Adrian Lopez to Ray Madrid III. El Rancho went for two and completed the conversion on a pass from Lopez to Jacob Hernandez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A few light sprinkles greeted the teams in the second half but that didn’t hold back Madrid who called his own number on the second play on a drive starting at the El Rancho 20. Madrid found a seam and was gone 75-yards to paydirt. Anaya added the extra point and the Dons led 18-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both defenses held for the remainder of the third quarter and the Don’s final dagger came with 8:52 left in the final frame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Braylon Morrison with some tough yards against bell Gardens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Noah Garcia capped a 13-play, 95-yard drive with a one-yard plunge into the endzone. With Anaya’s point after El Rancho had an insurmountable lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

El Rancho with the win essentially wrapped up the Metro League as their final game of the season with be at home with El Monte (0-2, 2-7). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bell Gardens will be at home looking to regain momentum heading into post season hosting former Almont League foe the Schurr Spartans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Pico Rivera, CA) – In what was essentially the Metro League title match between the El Rancho Dons (6-2, 1-0) and the Bell Gardens Lancers (7-1,1-0) the Dons dominated the game defensively en route to a 25-0 victory at El Rancho High School Friday night.<\/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":[12816,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99770","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\/99770","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=99770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99803,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99770\/revisions\/99803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}