{"id":1966,"date":"2014-09-02T09:55:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T16:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2014-09-08T10:11:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T17:11:52","slug":"warriors-lose-first-game-prepare-for-santa-rita-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/warriors-lose-first-game-prepare-for-santa-rita-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Lose First Game, Prepare For Santa Rita On Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaac Montiel<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-01.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1966]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pueblo Football Vs Amphi August-29-2014-01\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-01-550x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For their first home scrimmage, our Warriors dominated the Titans of Palo Verde, playing what we call \u201cWarrior Football\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed that this victorious spirit would continue last Friday night when our Warriors traveled to Amphi High School for Pueblo\u2019s first game of the season. The Warriors had a great start at 13-0\u2014touchdowns by junior George Romero (aka \u201cDrake\u201d)\u2014until the fourth quarter when the Amphi Panthers leaped into winning territory, and being victorious in the last five minutes with a two-point conversion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-02.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1966]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pueblo Football Vs Amphi August-29-2014-02\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-02-550x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Senior Jorge Lopez said, \u201cThis game was a wake-up call. We got cocky and didn\u2019t play up to our potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another senior, Jesus Gutierrez, said, \u201cIt\u2019s not too late for us to change. We will keep working hard and not let one defeat drag us down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coach Brandon Sanders said, \u201cWe are working on our discipline and making sure that all of the little things are done right for the game on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-04.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1966]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pueblo Football Vs Amphi August-29-2014-04\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-04-550x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Friday\u2019s game is a \u201cwhite-out\u201d game in which fans are encouraged to wear white in support of the Warriors, in an effort to \u201cpsych-out\u201d the opponents.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This school year, Pueblo Magnet High School\u2019s varsity football team has had a tough start. Coming from a 3-7 losing season last year, they will recover quite well.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-03.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1966]\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Pueblo Football Vs Amphi August-29-2014-03\" src=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Pueblo-Football-Vs-Amphi-August-29-2014-03-550x392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This year with the hope of the new coach, our Warriors will have one of the best seasons they\u2019ve seen in a long time, according to many of this year\u2019s players. Every athlete on the team has worked hard all summer and has surpassed all expectations in \u201cpassing league\u201d as well as other tournaments they have participated in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Isaac Montiel For their first home scrimmage, our Warriors dominated the Titans of Palo Verde, playing what we call \u201cWarrior Football\u201d. It seemed that this victorious spirit would continue last Friday night when our Warriors traveled to Amphi High School for Pueblo\u2019s first game of the season. The Warriors had a great start at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/warriors-lose-first-game-prepare-for-santa-rita-on-friday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warriors Lose First Game, Prepare For Santa Rita On Friday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,20],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pA2u4-vI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1972,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions\/1972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pueblowarriors.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}