COMMUNITY COLLEGE ROUNDUP : El Camino Flattens Mt. SAC, 40-21

The El Camino College football team kept alive its hopes for a bowl bid by defeating Mt. San Antonio College, 40-21, in a Mission Conference Northern Division game at Walnut Saturday night.

El Camino is 7-2 overall and 5-2 in league play. Mt. SAC fell to 4-5 and 2-5.

The Warriors’ Anthony Daigle rushed for 126 yards on 24 carries and scored three touchdowns, one of them on a 12-yard pass from quarterback Rod Harvey.

Harvey completed 12 passes for 117 yards and a touchdown. He also fumbled twice and was intercepted once, but that didn’t stop the Warriors’ scoring machine.

El Camino, which usually gets off to slow starts, scored three touchdowns in the first half. The Warriors drove 53 yards in four plays for the first touchdown. Harvey’s pass to Daigle gave El Camino a 7-0 lead.

Mt. SAC answered with a 72-yard drive that was capped by Marshawn Thompson’s two-yard touchdown run. The score was set up by Mike Galindo’s 48-yard run.

El Camino regained the lead on its next possession. The Warriors drove 53 yards in 10 plays, with Daigle scoring from a yard out.

Warrior defensive back Donovan Gallatin, who missed two games this season with a concussion, scored El Camino’s third touchdown of the half. The freshman intercepted a Bill Gallis’ pass and returned it 34 yards for the touchdown and a 21-7 El Camino lead.

Mt. SAC scored with 4:21 left in the second quarter after guard Spencer Keala recovered a Harvey fumble. Fred Coffee scored on a four-yard run to cut El Camino’s lead to 21-14.

Louis Perez kicked a 41-yard field goal with 7:08 left in the third quarter to give the Warriors a 24-14 edge.

El Camino marched 75 yards on 12 plays for its next touchdown. Daigle jumped over the Mt. SAC line for the touchdown from a yard out.

The Mounties answered with a four-yard touchdown pass from Anthony Calvillo to Coffee with 6:52 left in the game. The play was set up by Calvillo’s 45-yard pass to Demetrius Baptiste.

Perez hit a 33-yard field goal with 3:28 remaining to increase El Camino’s lead to 34-21.

The Warriors’ last touchdown was set up by Shannon Thompson’s 60-yard punt return. Tony DaCosta scored three plays later on a two-yard run with 38 seconds left to play.

Bakersfield 21, L.A. Southwest 0--Southwest could have used a little offense against the nation’s No. 1 team, but couldn’t generate much of an attack against the visiting Renegades.

Southwest did manage to hold Bakersfield 23 points under its scoring average.

“You don’t practice defense all year to have people to score against you,” Southwest Coach Henry Washington said. “You’ve got to go in with the idea to shut the other team out.”

Southwest’s defense failed in only one area--the Cougars gave up big plays at crucial times.

Bakersfield (8-0 overall, 7-0 in the Western State Conference) set up its first touchdown on a 33-yard run by halfback Nathan Dupree, and capped the drive on a 20-yard first-quarter touchdown pass from Bryan Nixon to flanker Lance Patton.

Southwest (3-5, 2-5) got burned again by the big play later in the quarter. Nixon passed 56 yards to Patton, which led to Shon Ellerbe’s one-yard scoring run.

The final Bakersfield touchdown came on a 25-yard pass over the middle to David Dunn, with Nixon throwing only seconds before he was flattened by Southwest linebacker Mark Fields.

“I thought we could have won if we could slow down some of that big-play madness,” Washington said.

Bakersfield held Southwest to only 110 total yards. Southwest quarterback Craig Manigo was flushed from the pocket often and completed only 13 of 31 passes for 93 yards and was intercepted twice. Southwest’s running game was also bottled up, held to 37 yards.

--STUART MATTHEWS

Glendale 27, Harbor 0--Bobby Webster rushed for three touchdowns and Glendale (6-2) held Harbor (4-4) to only 112 yards of offense.