{"id":7345,"date":"2020-06-15T12:28:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000001745"},"modified":"2020-06-16T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T19:16:51","slug":"video-polys-classic-redemption-against-mater-dei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/video-polys-classic-redemption-against-mater-dei","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Poly&#8217;s classic redemption against Mater Dei"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The562.org Classic: 2012 Long Beach Poly Football CIF Championship vs. Mater Dei\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6rk9YPrNYGk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this, the seventh installment of The562.org\u2019s Classics video series, we look back at the 2012 CIF Southern Section Pac-5 football championship game that ended up being the rubber match between Long Beach Poly and Mater Dei.<\/p>\n<p>The classic rivals had split their three previous championship battles 1-1-1 before the Jackrabbits smacked the Monarchs 35-17 at Angel Stadium. Poly started the 2012 season by losing three of its first four games, including a 56-0 loss at Narbonne.<\/p>\n<p>The Jackrabbits redemption in the playoffs by beating big-money programs Mission Viejo, St. John Bosco and Mater Dei with superior offensive\/defensive line play.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s Poly football,\u201d Poly coach Raul Lara said after winning his record fifth title. \u201cBe physical, control the line of scrimmage\u2026 this is a sweet year. I don\u2019t keep count or like to compare championships, but this is special because of how we started. Honestly, I never thought we would be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A few future NFL pros on the roster\u2014Juju Smith-Schuster, Jayon Brown, Iman Marshall\u2014and superior coaching helped Poly dominate the proceedings against the stunned Monarchs, especially in the second half. Mater Dei had almost 30 plays in Poly territory after halftime but couldn\u2019t score.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s the best feeling in the world,&#8221; said Jayon Brown. &#8220;It feels like I won a Super Bowl. Hell, I did win a Super Bowl.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poly started the 2012 season by losing three of its first four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17159,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2156],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[199],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-the562-classics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}