Cerritos hands BC its 5th straight loss
| Saturday, Nov 05 2011 10:52 PM
Last Updated Saturday, Nov 05 2011 10:55 PM
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Bakersfield College running back Mustaafa Cobb carries the ball against Cerritos College on Saturday night.
Bakersfield College running back Mustaafa Cobb tackles Cerritos College wide receiver Darius Bratcher on Saturday night.
Two Bakersfield College defenders tackle Cerritos College wide receiver Lindsey Anderson on Saturday night.
Bakersfield College defensive back Taiyon Jackson tackles Cerritos College wide receiver Garion Manning on Saturday night.
Cerritos College running back Cory Westbrook carries the ball against Bakersfield College on Saturday night.
Bakersfield College's forgettable season continues.
Cerritos College put the game away with a dominant first half and the Renegades' ineffective play in recent games continued in the Falcons' 41-19 win at Memorial Stadium.
The Renegades simply played uninspired throughout the contest, showing little life on the field. A season-low crowd of 2,888 witnessed BC's fifth straight loss.
The losing streak ties a school record that had occurred twice previously. The Renegades clinched only their second losing season in Jeff Chudy's eight seasons as head coach. BC is 3-6 overall and 0-4 in the National Northern Conference with one game remaining, next Saturday at Canyons.
It was 34-13 at halftime. Cerritos, which is alone in first place in the NNC at 4-0 (6-3 overall) was unstoppable in the first half.
Cerritos quarterback Brandon Denker threw for 161 yards and three touchdowns in the first two quarters and ran for another score.
The Falcons' running game had its way whichever direction the runners went. If they took it to the outside, they consistently turned the corner for good gains. If they ran up the middle, the Cerritos line muscled the BC defensive front to pick up 5-10 yards on a regular basis.
BC's defense, as it has all year, could not come up with the big plays to stop the Falcons on third down. Cerritos was 5-of-9 on third-down conversions and 3-of-3 on fourth down in the first half. BC was 0-for-9 on third down in the game.
Cettitos led 13-3 at the end of the first quarter. At that point, the Falcons had a 161-3 edge in total offense, they had run 27 plays to BC's nine and they had an 11:38-3:22 edge in time of possession.
Three more touchdowns in the second quarter keyed the 34-13 lead. Cerritos' 34 points is more than BC has scored in any game this season.
BC's touchdowns were two scoring passes from quarterback Brian Duboski, a 21-yard screen pass to running back Jalen Sykes and a 30-yard pass to Aaron Morris with BC in a fourth-and-23 situation. Tyler Schleicher added 29- and 30-yard field goals.
Denker's 12-yard touchdown run on the opening drive illustrated what was to come. The Renegades played with little emotion in the first half except for the drive that ended with Sykes' touchdown. That drive was kept alive when Mustaafa Cobb ran for a first down with BC in punt formation.
But the BC enthusiasm waned when Cerritos came right back and went 83 yards on eight plays in the subsequent drive.
Denker added a 4-yard TD run in the fourth quarter. He finished 17-of-30 for 199 yards.
Jalen Sykes, who had four straight 100-plus-yard rushing games earlier this season, was held to minus 4 yards on 11 carries. Cobb had a team-high 75 yards on nine carries.
Duboski was ineffective -- only 11-of-30 passing for 115 yards and two interceptions.
