Bradley Runs for 225 Yards as Moorpark Breezes, 60-7

A fierce wind was not enough to blow Compton College out of Moorpark’s Griffin Stadium on Saturday afternoon, but the Moorpark ground attack was.

The Raiders sent Compton defenders skittering away like so many tumbleweeds in the face of a ground game that piled up more than 500 yards as Moorpark won, 60-7, in a Western State Conference Northern Division opener.

The whipsawing wind would have played havoc with the passing game, had Moorpark chosen to pass. Moorpark threw only four passes, none in the second half, and quarterbacks Kris Dutra and Del Marine each gained more yards running than they did passing. Marine recorded Moorpark’s only completion--one of six yards to Tremmel Hamm.

For Moorpark, the shortest route to the end zone led from Point A to Point B. That’s from Anderson to Bradley.

Freddie Bradley rushed for 225 yards in 22 carries and scored four touchdowns and did not even play in the final 20 minutes. Jamal Anderson gained 122 yards in 13 attempts and added two touchdowns. Johnel Turner finished with 131 yards in 14 carries and scored the first two touchdowns of his Moorpark career.

Moorpark is 5-1, 4-1 in conference play. Compton is 0-6, 0-5.

“We were just better than them,” Moorpark offensive lineman Ned Russell said. “After the loss to Bakersfield, we wanted to prove we could run the ball.”

That did not take long. On Moorpark’s first play, Bradley broke through the line, spun out of a tackle and sprinted 84 yards for a touchdown.

“After that first run, I was like, ‘Yeah, might be a pretty good day,’ ” Bradley said. “Then, I came in the next time, they hit me hard, and I thought, ‘I’ve got to run hard.’ ”

Bradley’s 225 yards was a career high, eclipsing his previous best of 218 set last weekend against Bakersfield, and put him at 1,124 for the season.

Bradley said that his 200-plus-yard game in a winning effort also earned his linemen a pizza dinner.

“It was mainly the blocking that sprung me,” Bradley said.

With three more rushing touchdowns, he is eight short of the national record of 43 career regular-season touchdowns held by O. J. Simpson and two others. Bradley has 35 career regular-season rushing touchdowns with four games remaining.

Bradley burrowed into the end zone from four yards midway through the second quarter, and Anderson swept 18 yards for a touchdown to give Moorpark a 20-0 halftime lead.

The first half ended when Moorpark’s Darrick Jones knocked Compton quarterback Terren Adams out of bounds on Moorpark’s two-yard line as time expired.

“They played well enough in the first half to give us a workout,” Moorpark Coach Jim Bittner said.

In the third quarter, Moorpark led, 27-6, when Adams completed a 64-yard pass to set up a one-yard touchdown run by Jarrod Bible. Compton’s touchdown unleashed the floodgates for Moorpark.

Bradley returned the ensuing kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown, and Moorpark scored five touchdowns within 17 minutes around the quarter break.

Bradley scored from five yards, and Anderson from one. Turner was untouched on a one-yard touchdown and finished the scoring with a 56-yard run.

“They’re like a machine,” Compton Coach Lalo Mendoza said. “I think they’re good enough to beat some Division I teams.”

Dutra rushed for 50 yards, including a 35-yard touchdown.