CIF-SS FLAG FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS<\/p>\n
Valley Christian (16-6) vs. West Ranch (11-10)<\/p>\n
Where, when: Huntington Beach High, Saturday, 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
Analysis: Get it, start it, keep it going. That\u2019s the motto that fueled the Valley Christian girls flag football team to reach a CIF Southern Section title game in the program\u2019s first year. The Defenders are the No. 2 seed in Division 4 and have defeated three of their four opponents in the playoffs by at least two touchdowns. Valley Christian finished second in the San Joaquin League before beating Brentwood 38-7 in the first round, El Rancho 13-6 in the second round, Gabrielino 41-24 in the quarterfinals, and Santa Paula 33-19 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is absolutely a dream season,\u201d Valley Christian first-year coach Korey Smith said. \u201cIt\u2019s glory to God. Coming in here, the expectation was really just get the girls learning how to play football and just having fun playing the sport. That was my goal, but once we got rolling and we started winning a couple of games, I think confidence built and the girls started to gel together, trust each other, and then when we moved forward and we got Keylee (Baker) there, it kind of came together, and all the girls started to ball out.\u201d<\/p>\n
Valley Christian junior quarterback Molly Douglas has thrown for 4,852 yards, 53 touchdowns and eight interceptions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m very proud of how far we\u2019ve come,\u201d Douglas said.<\/p>\n
Freshman receiver Xoe Carter has 95 catches for 1,608 yards and 16 touchdowns. Baker, a transfer from Orange Lutheran, has 54 catches for 1,051 yards and 14 touchdowns after sitting out the first half of the season due to transfer rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt Valley Christian, sports are big there,\u201d Baker said, \u201cbut it\u2019s not like super big where everyone is always making it to the finals. So it\u2019s like we could be the first to do it and it would just be an amazing opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
West Ranch, which finished tied for third in the Foothill League, beat Temecula Prep 40-20 in the first round of the playoffs, Redlands Advent 26-18 in the second round, Kaiser 26-7 in the quarterfinals, and Hemet 24-21 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n
Valley Christian\u2019s playoff momentum and high-scoring offense should lead it win in the Division 4 final.<\/p>\n
Winner: Valley Christian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CIF-SS FLAG FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS Valley Christian (16-6) vs. West Ranch (11-10) Where, when: Huntington Beach High, Saturday, 2:30…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,21173,5479,5480,2044,131,133,132,137,127],"class_list":["post-521122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-cerritos","tag-high-school-all-sports","tag-high-school-flag-football","tag-high-school-sports","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}