{"id":909,"date":"2010-11-15T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-crowned-moore-league-champs-with-47-6-win-over-compton\/"},"modified":"2010-11-15T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T07:50:00","slug":"poly-crowned-moore-league-champs-with-47-6-win-over-compton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-crowned-moore-league-champs-with-47-6-win-over-compton","title":{"rendered":"Poly Crowned Moore League Champs With 47-6 Win Over Compton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Article by Julio Nievas<\/em><\/p>\n

The Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits had two turnovers in the first quarter, but rebounded after as they crush visiting Compton High School Tarbabes, 47-6 at Veterans Memorial Stadium.<\/p>\n

The Jackrabbits were the overwhelming favorites to win the game, but didn\u2019t look like a team playing for a blowout as junior quarterback Chaiyse Hales threw an interception on the opening drive. Hales would rebound after as he threw for 162 yards with 10 out of 22 completions and a touchdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis game was sloppy from the beginning,\u201d Long Beach Poly head coach Raul Lara said. \u201cTo be honest, we (coaching staff) thought this may happen after the Lakewood game because we have played very well after. This was perfect in a sense that our kids need to understand they can\u2019t roll teams over every week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Poly\u2019s air game couldn\u2019t find a rhythm all night, but the running game performed up to par. Sophomore running back Manusamoa Luuga was the star of the first half as he pounded his way for 85 yards and a touchdown; Luuga only had four yards in the second half, but the Tarbabes had suffered the worst in the first half.<\/p>\n

Luuga could have ran a 54-yard touchdown had it not been brought back with a holding penalty by Poly.<\/p>\n

Though the Tarbabes caught a an interception and recovered a fumble in the first quarter to find themselves in the red zone, they couldn\u2019t find themselves in the end zone. Poly\u2019s defense stifled Compton\u2019s offense, allowing a 20-yard or more play twice when the starters were on the field.<\/p>\n

Poly\u2019s defense also forced five fumbles, but only recovered twice, and intercepting the ball three times.<\/p>\n

The game was put away when Poly caught an interception by senior defensive back Dabness Atkins in the opening drive of the third quarter. Compton\u2019s turnover resulted in a quick scoring drive by Poly, a strike thrown from Hales to senior wide receiver Donald Byrd for a 20-yard touchdown.<\/p>\n

With the win, the Jackrabbits go undefeated in the Moore League and will prepare for the playoffs and coach Lara knows his team will have to prepare in a different way than preparing for a regular season game.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s win or go home now,\u201dLara said. \u201cThere\u2019s no more playing around.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for the regular season, staying perfect in the Moore League isn\u2019t enough to satisfy Lara. Lara repeatedly mentioned to his team after the game that winning their 19th championship is their ultimate goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a little disappointed how the season started (with losses from St. Bonaventure and Mission Viejo),\u201d Lara said. \u201cBut I liked how we regrouped after. We\u2019re now going to face [harder] competition and then we\u2019ll see how we have improved.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Long Beach Poly Jackrabbits had two turnovers in the first quarter, but rebounded after as they crush visiting Compton High School Tarbabes, 47-6 at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Article by Julio Nievas.<\/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-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}