{"id":6488,"date":"2022-11-30T11:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2022-11-30T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T16:29:26","slug":"trumbull-pulls-off-upset-for-quarterfinal-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=6488","title":{"rendered":"Trumbull Pulls Off Upset for Quarterfinal Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin Cabreja \u201823<br \/>\n<em>EE\u00a0<\/em>Sports Reporter<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Trumbull Eagles Football Team pulled off an incredible upset win vs #1 seeded Southington, 34-25, on Tuesday, November 29th in Southington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was a special night for the football program at Trumbull High as it was their first appearance in the playoffs in the last 12 years. This game saw a strong performance by Jonathan Hall who exploded for 232 yards and an astonishing 5 touchdowns. He was really the focal point of the Eagle&#8217;s offense and kept them in the game given the back and forth battle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coming out of the half, the Eagles saw themselves up by one. Southington responded with a touchdown but the Eagles scored back nearing the end of the 3rd quarter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the 4th quarter, the Eagle&#8217;s defense stepped up not allowing a single point to secure the win for Trumbull. The #8 seed in these playoffs, Trumbull, will now head to Fairfield to play the #5 seed, Fairfield Prep, on Sunday, December 4th at 12:30 pm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy: THS Football Twitter account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melvin Cabreja \u201823 EE\u00a0Sports Reporter The Trumbull Eagles Football Team pulled off an incredible upset win vs #1 seeded Southington, 34-25, on Tuesday, November 29th in Southington. It was a special night&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":6492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6496,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}