By: Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor It wasn’t quite the way Pasadena City College wanted to start the 2017 football season. The Lancers knew they had their hands full with Long Beach City College, and had someone told you the Vikings would commit six turnovers, one might have thought PCC either won the game or it […]
By: Brian Reed-Baiotto, Sports Editor
It wasn’t quite the way Pasadena City College wanted to start the 2017 football season.
The Lancers knew they had their hands full with Long Beach City College, and had someone told you the Vikings would commit six turnovers, one might have thought PCC either won the game or it was at least a competitive contest throughout, right?
It was not.
For the first 15 minutes, though, PCC erased an early 10-point deficit when Ian Brian came off the bench and hit Amad Andrews on a 16-yard scoring strike.
Just 32 seconds later, Enrique Lozano converted on a 34-yard field goal attempt and the game was tied at 10-10.
Over the next 45 minutes of game time, however, LBCC would outscore PCC, 42-7, despite six turnovers for the Vikings.
And four of the six miscues came from quarterback Grant Lowary.
LBCC went on to defeat the Lancers, 52-17, behind 414 yards passing and four touchdowns from Lowary.
He completed 22 of 43 passes and had scoring strikes of 28, 30, 73 and 17 yards.
LBCC had a 19-10 advantage in first downs through the air.
Shaun Colamonico had 5 catches for 127 yards and two TD’s and Mike Wilson caught 5 passes for 114 yards and one score.
Cedric Byrd had 6 catches for 91 yards for LBCC, but he did his real damage on punt returns.
Byrd returned 5 PCC punts for 190 yards and had one score.
As mentioned, Lowary was picked four times.
Jshoun Wolfe, Josiah Purchase, Andy Reyes and Ty Apana-Purcell each had an interception for PCC and Wolfe also had a kickoff return for 31 yards.
Ian Brian came on in the first half for Adam Besana and finished the game 17 of 31 for 223 yards and two scores.
Brian hit Andrews on the first-half score and a 17-yard TD pass to Forest Fajardo late in the third quarter.
James Shaw had a game-high 74 yards on 13 carries for PCC, and Amad Andrews gained 52 yards on 12 carries.
Yusef Muhammad had a 70-yard kickoff return for PCC, but left the game with a groin injury and the Lancers’ big-play sophomore hopes to be back next week when they travel to San Bernardino.
Forest Fajardo looked solid throughout and had a game-high 9 catches for 85 yards and one score.
Kyle Torres caught 3 passes for 73 yards for PCC.
Cross Poyer opened the game for LBCC with a pick of Besana and he brought it back 32 yards for a Pick-6.
LBCC out-disciplined PCC.
The Vikings had 70 yards on 7 penalties, while the Lancers went backwards 150 yards on 10 penalties.
Odd stat of the game, and despite the blowout, PCC had the ball for 38 of the 60-minute game.
Quotable:
LBCC coach Brett Peabody: “Most of it was turnovers. That said, they (pcc) came out with a great game plan and competed. I was happy with our resiliency. I love the competitiveness of (Ian Brian). I think they’re going to have a really good year.”
PCC coach Steven Mojarro: “Our kids played hard and never quit. Long Beach did what they had to do. We were in the game, but made some mistakes that we have to fix. I made some mistakes that I’ll have to correct. I couldn’t be more proud of our guys, because they never gave up.”
Box Score:
LBCC: 10-14-7-21-(52)
PCC: 10-0-7-0-(17)
Records:
Long Beach (1-0); Pasadena City (0-1)
Next Week:
Saddleback at Long Beach at 6
PCC at San Bernardino Valley College at 6
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