Keyed-Up CLU Produces Noteworthy Victory, 21-10 : College football: Kingsmen stun Redlands to post their fourth consecutive win and record their first non-losing season since 1985.

Charged-up Cal Lutheran stumbled at the outset against Redlands, the NCAA Division III’s fourth-ranked team, but gained its footing and composure in the second half Saturday to post its fourth consecutive victory, a 21-10 nonconference upset.

The victory in Cal Lutheran’s season finale before 2,252 at Mt. Clef Stadium gave the Kingsmen (5-5) their first non-losing season since 1985 when they went 6-5.

Cal Lutheran trailed, 10-7, at halftime but held Redlands scoreless the rest of the way.

Tailback Cassidy O’Sullivan scored on runs of one and eight yards in the fourth quarter and rushed for 136 yards in a season-high 36 carries. He finished 10 yards shy of becoming the second 1,000-yard rusher in school history. But O’Sullivan said he was not disappointed about missing the milestone “just as long as we won.”

Redlands (7-2) took a 7-0 lead on a 13-yard run by Shaun Trejo after O’Sullivan, who said he slipped, had fumbled on Cal Lutheran’s first possession at the CLU 38-yard line.

“Our guys were higher than a kite when they started the game,” Cal Lutheran Coach Joe Harper said.

The Kingsmen, who will join the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference next year, found extra incentive because Redlands won the SCIAC championship this season.

The Kingsmen took a 14-10 lead early in the fourth quarter after Darrell Waterford recovered a Redlands fumble at the Bulldogs’ nine-yard line. O’Sullivan then carried the ball three consecutive times, scoring up the middle from one yard.

O’Sullivan scored again with 5 minutes 30 seconds remaining, this time on an eight-yard run. Adam Hacker passed 31 yards to Alonzo Williams to set up the score.

Aided by two unsportsmanlike-conduct penalties, Redlands drove to Cal Lutheran’s 32. But the Kingsmen took over on downs with 1:52 left after Brian Harmon threw three consecutive incomplete passes.

Hacker completed nine of 23 passes for 161 yards and no interceptions. Harmon completed 14 of 26 for 99 yards and one interception.

The Kingsmen limited Trejo, the SCIAC’s top rusher, to 37 yards in 11 attempts and sacked Harmon seven times for 51 yards. Linebacker Kevin Evans, who had 14 tackles, broke up two passes for Cal Lutheran.

Cal Lutheran, which had last played Redlands in 1983, has won 10 straight against Redlands and is 15-5 in a series that began in 1965.

John Thebeau kicked a 21-yard field goal to put Redlands ahead, 10-0, early in the second quarter.

But Cal Lutheran responded with a 28-yard pass from Hacker to Tom Leogrande to close within, 10-7, with two minutes left in the half.

Hacker and Leogrande had combined on a 46-yard pass play to set up the score.