{"id":7483,"date":"2020-09-08T10:39:11","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000001929"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T17:39:29","slug":"a-look-back-at-st-anthony-footballs-classic-championship-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/a-look-back-at-st-anthony-footballs-classic-championship-moment","title":{"rendered":"A look back at St. Anthony football&#8217;s classic championship moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The562.org Classic: 2016 St. Anthony Football CIF Championship\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3K1mv-HnHko?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 installment of The562.org\u2019s Classics video series, we look back at the historic 2016 St. Anthony football CIF Southern Section Division 10 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Mario Morales and his Saints called their shot in the preseason and delivered their first CIF title since 1948. St. Anthony started the season 3-2 but found its offensive rhythm and ripped off nine consecutive wins to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>In that game, the Saints took an early lead against Aquinas in San Bernardino and then, after the Falcons came back to pull ahead, St. Anthony pounded out a game-winning drive to clinch the victory 33-32.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s awesome that these guys think the way they think,\u201d Morales said of his excitable squad. \u201cThey set their goals high and they did it. These kids are unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senior quarterback Johnny Buksa V led the Saints with three touchdowns. He completed 12 of his 22 attempts for 214 yards and rushed for a game-high 157 yards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to battle because [Aquinas] was one of the best teams we played this year,\u201d Buksa V said. \u201cWe were in a dogfight, but we played together as a team and to win with these guys was awesome\u2026 We\u2019ll always be CIF champions and that\u2019s something we can take with us for the rest of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saints called their shot in the preseason and delivered their first CIF title since 1948.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17177,"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-7483","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\/7483","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=7483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7483"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}