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Mexico’s Monterrey Tech advances to championship game

By Kevin Baxter
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Monterrey Tech, the top college football program in Mexico and one featured in a Los Angeles Times report Nov. 7, advanced to its 12th straight Mexican national championship game with a 49-12 win over the University of the Americas on Friday in Monterrey.

Monterrey Tech scored on its second possession when quarterback Gilberto Escobedo threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to tight end Alejandro Del Bosque, putting the Borregos Salvajes ahead to stay. Monterrey Tech scored the game’s first five touchdowns before the Aztecs finally got on the board on Juan Manuel Macias’ 101-yard touchdown return in the third period.

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Monterrey Tech, chasing its fifth consecutive championship, will meet the winner of tonight’s semifinal between Tec Estado de Mexico and the University of Nuevo Leon next weekend.

-- Kevin Baxter

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Kevin Baxter

Kevin Baxter writes about soccer and other things for the Los Angeles Times, where he has worked for 27 years. He has covered seven World Cups, four Olympic Games, six World Series and a Super Bowl and has contributed to three Pulitzer Prize-winning series at The Times and Miami Herald. An essay he wrote in fifth grade was voted best in the class. He has a cool dog.

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