{"id":5520,"date":"2008-10-04T10:58:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/braves-blog-all-new-bosco\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T10:58:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:58:34","slug":"braves-blog-all-new-bosco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/braves-blog-all-new-bosco","title":{"rendered":"Braves Blog:  All New Bosco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between superstar (and soon-to-be AL Rookie of the Year) Evan Longoria, Bosco star quarterback Keith Price, and yours truly, St John Bosco has taken in a whole host of Long Beach residents.&nbsp; So many, in fact, that I am declaring them an Honorary Long Beach High School and I strongly suggest you keep an eye on them this year.&nbsp; Because as (fellow-alumnist) Bill Baca and I will be more than happy to tell you, Bosco has a phenomenal team, and contrary to what others on this site may try to tell you this Braves team is fully capable of beating any team in Southern California- and with Mater Dei, Orange Lutheran, and Servite all in their league, Bosco will certainly have a chance to prove it.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Coming into Friday night&rsquo;s game against rival St Paul, Bosco was 4 -0 having outscored their opponents 165 to 48.&nbsp; And Friday night&rsquo;s 37-10 Homecoming win kept the Braves rolling.<\/p>\n<p>Bosco is lead by senior quarterback Price, who had a huge game with 3 TDs in the air and another 2 on the ground.&nbsp; In fact, he threw for over 200 yards and ran for another 70 while the Braves D held the Swordsmen of St Paul to under 200 yards of total offense.&nbsp; All facets of the Braves were firing as junior kicker Auburn Jimenez kicked three touchbacks in the first half and kicked a 51-yard field goal.&nbsp; Special teams really did a lot for the Braves not only on a few huge returns but also on two blocked kicks.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Bosco lead from start to finish, taking the first offensive play of the game- a screen pass from Price to junior Austin Mahr, who also had nearly 50 yards rushing- for 65 yards and a touchdown and never looked back.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Now the real fun begins for the Braves though, and not just because I&rsquo;m covering them for LBPostSports.com now, but because they enter the toughest league in Southern California (and possibly the country.)&nbsp; Their defense will continue to be lead by seniors Thomas Hawkes and Steven Garcia and their offense will continue to light it up with Price, Leon Mcfadden, and Will Shamburger.&nbsp; And with sophomores like Taylor Sparks- 3 receptions and 58 yards, including a touchdown and another excellent reception that put him out at the 1- this Braves program will be good for years to come.&nbsp; So, welcome to Long Beach guys, we&rsquo;re happy to have you. <\/p>\n<p><style type=\"text\/css\">body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">  body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">  body {  \tbackground: #FFF;  }  <\/style>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our resident St. John Bosco alumni Ryan &#8220;Leaky Pipes&#8221; Thies is so proud of his Boys From Bosco that he thinks you and Long Beach should adopt them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}