On Oct. 9, the Ponte Vedra High School (PVHS) Sharks took on the Mandarin High School (MHS) Mustangs at home. The Sharks entered the game 2-4, coming off a hard loss at Bartram Trail High School. The Mustangs entered the game 5-1, ranked the number 22 team in Florida by MaxPreps. After an hour and half long lightning delay, MHS started the game off with an 80-yard rushing touchdown on the first play of the game. Mandarin would score another touchdown in the first quarter to lead 14-0 going into the second. After PVHS got on the board with a field goal in the second quarter, they would be down 14-3 going into halftime. In the second half, the Sharks’ offense needed to get hot with the Mustangs’ offense running cold in the second quarter. After MHS scored a 50-yard passing touchdown early in the third quarter, they didn’t look back as PVHS would lose an embarrassing 34-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “we are going to clean up a couple things at practice and work hard with a positive mindset no matter what”<\/p>Arjun Rauniyar (11)<\/cite><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Junior Quarterback, Gio Merlino started the game and had 5 completions on 13 attempts and would throw for 21 yards and 3 interceptions on no touchdowns. PVHS’ rushing attack was nowhere to be found as standout senior running back; Alexander Winkles was held to just 28 yards on 13 carries, resulting in 1.9 yards a carry. After the loss, junior safety, Arjun Rauniyar stated, “we are going to clean up a couple things at practice and work hard with a positive mindset no matter what”. The Sharks are looking for a much-needed bounce back win at home against Fletcher High School on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pictured: Carter Sole (11) throwing the football<\/p>\nPhoto By: @fenneyflics<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Evan Long On Oct. 9, the Ponte Vedra High School (PVHS) Sharks took on the Mandarin High School (MHS) Mustangs at home. The Sharks entered the game 2-4, coming off a hard loss at Bartram Trail High School. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[143,111,138,139,149,136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8931"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8942,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8931\/revisions\/8942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pvhstiburon.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n