{"id":414,"date":"2012-12-18T18:14:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/poly-looks-to-future-after-comeback-season-tough-state-championship-loss\/"},"modified":"2012-12-18T18:14:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T18:14:58","slug":"poly-looks-to-future-after-comeback-season-tough-state-championship-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/poly-looks-to-future-after-comeback-season-tough-state-championship-loss","title":{"rendered":"Poly Looks To Future After Comeback Season, Tough State Championship Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-21562\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; cursor: default; border-width: 0px;\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pOly_Looks_on.jpg\" alt=\"pOly Looks on\" width=\"620\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Jayon Brown (#20) and Poly teammates in good spirits at practice last week. Photo by Matt Cohn.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A season that will be remembered for a remarkable turnaround after a 1-3 pre-season ended for the Poly Jackrabbits Friday night with a tough 21-20 loss to the Granite Bay Grizzlies in the C.I.F. Division One State Championship game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I love every last one of my teammates,&#8221; says senior outside linebacker Jayon Brown. &nbsp;&#8220;We had a great season. Friday&#8217;s game was a big let-down for us, though. &nbsp;No one plays for second place.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies contained the Poly offense well and got a clutch performance from kicker Colin Brown, who kicked two field goals in the first half and got the go-ahead extra point with a minute left in the game, after Granite Bay drove 77 yards for the tying touchdown.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Jackrabbit players and coaches were quick to give praise to the Grizzlies for their solid play, but also expressed disappointment about Poly&#8217;s 11 penalties and five interceptions, which helped keep the state title just out of reach this year. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Poly has a wealth of young talent returning next season, including quarterbacks Eban Jackson and Tai Tiedemann. Seniors like Brown, who&#8217;ll become a UCLA Bruin next fall, have the satisfaction of being remembered as winners of Poly&#8217;s 19th C.I.F. divisional championship.<\/p>\n<p>We never quit on each other and neither did our coaches,&#8221; says Brown of Poly&#8217;s comeback season. &#8220;We brought respect back to our program and to the community. We have much to be proud of.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-21562\" src=\"http:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/pOly_Looks_on.jpg\" alt=\"pOly Looks on\" width=\"620\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A season that will be remembered for a remarkable turnaround after a 1-3 pre-season ended for the Poly Jackrabbits Friday night with a tough 21-20 loss to the Granite Bay Grizzlies in the C.I.F. Division One State Championship game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":16690,"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":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"_":"","_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":"","footnotes":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-live.lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}