Cerritos College took the field Saturday, Sept. 21, at Mt. San Antonio College seeking to right the ship after losing in its home opener against Fullerton, but lost 42-21 and finished with three turnovers and 12 penalties.
After letting Mt. San Antonio score on its opening possession, the offense stalled for Cerritos college.
A major play during the first quarter was a sack by All-American David Moala during Mt. San Antonio’s second possesion.
Sophomore quarteback Cody Clements attempted a pass that resulted in an interception, which brought Cerritos college’s second possesion to a halt after one play and ended the first quarter.
The very first play of the second quarter netted Mt. San Antonio a touchdown.
Trailing 14-0, Cerritos college began to form a drive that looked very promising, until a faulty hand-off resulted in a fumble and a Mt. San Antonio recovery on its own seven yard line.
Mt. San Antonio took advantage and moved down the field quickly to go up 21-0 halfway through the second quarter.
Cerritos college found itself moving the ball down the field rather productively on the ensuing possession. Clements had a pass intercepted, but a defensive holding call kept the ball with Cerritos college and allowed it to continue the drive which eventually ended in a one yard touchdown run by sophomore running back Elijhaa Penny.
Mt. San Antonio came back down the field with the help of a few pass interference calls on the Cerritos college secondary and kicked a field to make the halftime score 24-7.
Cerritos college received the second half kick off and went 3 and out. A blown coverage in the secondary gave Mt. San Antonio another touchdown and Cerritos college answered by going 3 and out again.
Cerritos college stopped Mt. San Antonio’s momentum with a interception by freshman linebacker Erick Zarape. Cerritos college took advantage of that pick by getting a touchdown pass from Clements to Penny.
Mt. San Antonio answered with a touchdown, but Cerritos college answered back with a quick two play series, which included a catch and run by sophomore wide receiver Ricky Carrigan, Jr for a 57 yard touchdown.
As Mt. San Antonio began to come back down the field, freshman linebacker Joseph Duran came down with a difficult interception and gave Cerritos college good field position.
It looked as if Cerritos college was primed to get back into the game, but he offense eventually stalled out and a missed field goal wasted a good opportunity.
Mt. San Antonio came back and scored another touchdown. The Cerritos college offense completely stalled in its last few possesions and saw the game slowly slip away. Even a bad snap by Mt. San Antonio didn’t help the cause.
The Cerritos college football team will return from a one week hiatus with a home game against Pasadena City College at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.
