{"id":7457,"date":"2020-08-06T17:31:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000001888"},"modified":"2020-08-06T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T00:31:19","slug":"video-the-bus-stops-here-millikan-boys-soccer-classic-playoff-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/video-the-bus-stops-here-millikan-boys-soccer-classic-playoff-comeback","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: The bus stops here; Millikan boys&#8217; soccer classic playoff comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The562.org Classic: 2012 Millikan Boys&#039; Soccer Wins CIF Semifinal At Loyola\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Shijcgre2I?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Long Beach sports year that was 2012 just keeps on giving.<\/p>\n<p>In this installment of The562.org\u2019s Classics video series, we look back at Millikan boys\u2019 soccer comeback win at Loyola in the 2012 CIF Southern Section Division 1 semifinal. This teeter-totter contest saw host Loyola score twice in the first 17 minutes. Millikan came roaring back to score twice in the final 17 minutes of regulation.<\/p>\n<p>After a nail-biting scoreless 20 minutes of overtime, the Rams won the penalty kick shootout and celebrated with the massive Millikan crowd that traveled from Long Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you kidding?&#8221; asked coach Rod Petkovic after his team celebrated. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like that, not even close\u2026 when we went to PKs I told (the team) it&#8217;s over because we&#8217;ve been practicing PKs for three weeks\u2026 I&#8217;m stoked, and just so proud. (Loyola) won the first half, and we won the second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Millikan goalkeeper Steven Barrera made two stops to give his team the penalty kick shootout victory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I waited for the right timing,&#8221; said Barrera of his shootout strategy. \u00a0&#8220;Some (keepers) guess, but (an assistant coach) told me to just do what I do, so I waited for them.\u00a0 I read them, then moved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Millikan put itself in the record books with a 7-2 win in the CIF final a week later that also gave Petkovic his 600th career victory as coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like that, not even close.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17170,"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-7457","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\/7457","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=7457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7457"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}