{"id":3004,"date":"2009-10-25T05:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T05:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbcc-football-vikes-fall-to-palomar\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T05:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T05:36:00","slug":"lbcc-football-vikes-fall-to-palomar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbcc-football-vikes-fall-to-palomar","title":{"rendered":"LBCC Football: Vikes Fall To Palomar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Report by LBCC, photos by John Fajardo<\/span><\/p>\n

The Long Beach City College football team suffered its third straight Southern Conference loss of the season, as the Vikings lost 44-23 to visiting Palomar College on Saturday night at Veterans Memorial Stadium.  <\/span>Long Beach dropped to 1-6 overall and 0-3 in conference play while Palomar improved to 7-1 and 3-1 in the Southern Conference.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

LBCC led 13-6 after the first quarter but trailed just 16-13 at halftime before the Comets, ranked No. 6 in Southern California, blew the game open with 28 second-half points.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

The Vikings needed just three plays on their opening drive to get on the scoreboard first. Freshman quarterback Kevin Lubner connected with sophomore wide receiver Chris Williams for a 38-yard touchdown pass at the 13:41 mark in the first quarter. Palomar blocked the Vikings\u2019 PAT kick and Long Beach promptly led 6-0.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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Palomar came right back to score after a 10-play, 60-yard drive. Running back Orenzo Davis scored from two yards out for the first of his four touchdowns on the night. After a missed PAT kick, the score was tied 6-6 with 8:54 left in the first.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Lubner and the Vikings countered with a long scoring drive of their own, going 92 yards in nine plays, capped by freshman running back Ruben Laurente\u2019s 14-yard TD run and Long Beach led for the final time 13-6 with 2:38 to go in the first quarter.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Palomar\u2019s Kevin Ditch nailed a 33-yard field goal (14:49) and Davis broke free for a 47-yard TD run on fourth down and one yard to go at the 7:11 mark in the second to give the Comets the 16-13 advantage at halftime.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The second half was all Palomar. Davis scored two more touchdowns (20,10-yards) and Martavious Lee caught a pair of TD passes (31, 30-yards) from quarterback Matt Christian to seal the win.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sophomore Genesis Fonoimoana\u2019s 77-yard punt return for a touchdown gave the Vikings hope, getting LBCC to within seven points (30-23) with 12:25 left in the game. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

But the Comets\u2019 defense held tough and closed out the game with a pair of touchdowns to cruise to the win.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Lubner closed the game throwing for 242 yards on 12 of 40 passing with one TD and an interception. Freshman Daveon Barner ran for 100+ yards for the fifth time this season, rushing 18 times for 102 yards.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Sophomore linebacker Dylan Busser totaled a game-high 14 tackles (6 solo) and added a quarterback hurry. Fonoimoana added 10 tackles (4 solo) in addition to his big punt return.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

For Palomar, Davis ran for 175 yards on 21 carries and Lee caught seven passes for 130 yards.<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Long Beach will play its next two games on the road and returns to action next Saturday (Oct. 31) with a 7 p.m. Southern Conference game at Santa Ana College. <\/o:p><\/p>\n

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The Vikings suffered their third straight conference loss of the year, falling to 1-6 overall and 0-3\u2014and enjoy the pics taken by John Fajardo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}