{"id":1433,"date":"2018-11-20T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1433"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:17:15","slug":"stepinac-football-in-state-championship-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1433","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac football &#8211;  playing for State Championship again!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yay! After starting their season at 1-4 Stepinac completely turned it around! They beat Iona in the league semi-final and then Cardinal Hayes in the final (see both below) to win the Metropolitan area championship and will play St. Francis from upstate this Saturday at Stepinac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3a16eb7200d-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e2022ad3a16eb7200d-320wi\" alt=\"Stepinac State-Championship-Game\" title=\"Stepinac State-Championship-Game\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/lohud-varsity-insider\/2018\/11\/17\/football-stepinac-comes-back-beat-hayes-keep-grip-chsfl-title\/2013377002\/\">Stepinac comes back to beat Hayes and keep grip on CHSFL title<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s what Stepinac did Saturday night at Mitchel Field, rallying from two touchdowns down to beat Cardinal Hayes 29-18 and repeat as CHSFL &#8216;AAA&#8217; champions. Harris scored three times, junior Joey Carino threw three touchdowns and order returned to Mamaroneck Ave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here is the story about their beating Iona to make the final against Hayes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lohud.com\/story\/sports\/high-school\/lohud-varsity-insider\/2018\/11\/10\/football-malik-grant-powers-stepinac-revenge-win-over-iona-prep\/1893603002\/\">Malik Grant runs for nearly 400 yards as Stepinac gets revenge on Iona Prep<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The senior running back was the difference-maker in Saturday\u2019s CHSFL \u2018AAA\u2019 semifinal against the second-seeded Gaels. The Crusaders came away with a 37-26 win on the very same field where they had suffered a devastating overtime loss two months ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victory came on the back of a monster performance from Grant, who piled up 392 yards and three touchdowns on 38 carries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yay! After starting their season at 1-4 Stepinac completely turned it around! They beat Iona in the league semi-final and then Cardinal Hayes in the final (see both below) to win the Metropolitan area championship and will play St. Francis from upstate this Saturday at Stepinac. &nbsp; Stepinac comes back to beat Hayes and keep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1433\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}