{"id":7833,"date":"2017-10-11T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7833"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:32:11","slug":"coyotes-see-positives-in-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/coyotes-see-positives-in-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Coyotes see positives in loss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FRESNO \u2014 The Madera Coyotes football team saw their four-game win streak come to an end after they were Bested by a stout Edison Tigers football team, 43-14, in the County\/Metro Athletic Conference opener for both teams.<\/p>

\u201cWe came out and played well in the first half,\u201d head coach Yosef Fares said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t intimidated, I don\u2019t think. We just made mistakes and this is a very good football team. They shut out a Tri-River Athletic Conference school, so it\u2019s not like we are playing some chump here. We\u2019re not like some of these other schools in our division playing weak schedules, we\u2019re actually playing guys that are higher division than us. That\u2019s not an excuse for us, that\u2019s an opportunity to grow.\u201d<\/p>

After dropping their first contest of the year against Los Banos, Madera went on a four-game win streak. They scored more than 30 points in all of their wins this season but Friday night was a different story at Sunnyside High School\u2019s stadium.<\/p>

The Coyotes allowed 15 points in the opening quarter and couldn\u2019t seem to catch their breath. The visitors were forced to look down the field for their offense, allowing the Tiger pass rush to wreak havoc on the Coyote offensive line.<\/p>

Coyote quarterback Colt Nelson and his teammates took the hits, some illegal, and pushed on adding two scores of their own.<\/p>

Nelson, who threw for more than 100 yards and a touchdown, along with Jerry Hernandez, who had a rushing touchdown got Madera on the scoreboard. The Coyotes\u2019 offense showed glimpses of promise throughout the game, but the Tiger defense held strong.<\/p>

Offensively, the Tigers were led by McKinley Lee. He turned the game upside down after his breakaway speed proved too much for the Coyotes. Lee carried the ball 15 times for more than 200 yards and three touchdowns.<\/p>

The Tigers\u2019 speed and athleticism are a challenge for any team, however the Coyotes showed their grit and toughness throughout the game.<\/p>

The Coyotes made some noise in the second quarter after Jerry Hernandez took a handoff at the one-yard line for the score.<\/p>

The Coyotes took over on their own half- yard line and used eight plays to march down the field. Nelson and Joseph Saldivar combined on a big play of 24 yards to keep the drive alive, setting up Hernandez\u2019s run.<\/p>

That wouldn\u2019t be all for the Coyotes after Nelson tossed his only score of the night.<\/p>

With three minutes remaining in the third quarter, after consecutive runs by Saldivar, Fares dialed up a deep pass and K\u2019Veon Jones was the beneficiary.<\/p>

Nelson dropped back and fired a strike over the middle of the field to his receiver.<\/p>

Although the Tigers kept the Coyotes to only 14 points, the visitors never gave up.<\/p>

In the fourth quarter, when the Coyotes chances were slim, the team still fought for every yard. Jayson Regua still ran with intent, Nelson took the hits in the pocket and the Coyote defense still flew to the ball.<\/p>

Tigers quarterback Jameson Silva tossed his second touchdown of the game in the fourth quarter, which put the game out of reach. Silva used both his legs and arm to put his team in position win.<\/p>

Although the Coyotes win streak was snapped, confidence is still high in Madera.<\/p>

After losing all of their games last year, the Coyotes are on pace to have a winning record by the end of the season and be major players in the postseason.<\/p>

\u201cWe got to stay focused and get in the film room as coaches and players,\u201d Fares said. \u201cWe\u2019ve just got to grow and not make the same mistakes we made tonight.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FRESNO \u2014 The Madera Coyotes football team saw their four-game win streak come to an end after they were Bested by a stout Edison Tigers football team, 43-14, in the County\/Metro Athletic Conference opener for both teams. \u201cWe came out and played well in the first half,\u201d head coach Yosef Fares said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t intimidated, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":41659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-7833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}