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For the first time this season, the LBCC Vikings didn’t score on their opening drive. Unfortunately, they didn’t score on any other drive, either, picking up their only points on a kickoff return for a touchdown in a 43-7 loss to Fullerton in their final home game of the 2008 season. <\/span>The Vikings managed just 74 yards of offense in the contest, and committed six turnovers.<\/span><\/p>\n Fullerton struggled on the ground against the Vikes, posting only 26 yards, but the Hornets flew just fine as they racked up 264 yards through the air. <\/span>A Stephen Burton kick return to start the game gave the Vikings the ball on their own 34, where they lined up and prepared for their now-familiar march down the field. <\/span>Instead, quarterback Josh Powell threw an interception to the Hornets’ Lee Aguirre on his first pass attempt—things unraveled from there. <\/span>The Hornets punched the ball in three plays later, taking a 7-0 lead less than a minute in.<\/span><\/p>\n Later in the first, Powell threw another pick that set up a 17 play, 76-yard drive that ended in a field goal, and the Hornets were up 10-0. <\/span>The Vikings’ next drive ended in a safety, and Darryl Shine returned the ensuing kickoff for a 70-yard score, putting LBCC down 19-0. <\/span>Midway through the second quarter Vikes QB Josh Powell left the game, finishing with 3\/9 passing for 23 yards and two interceptions—he was also sacked four times.<\/span><\/p>\n His replacement, Antonio Mendez, didn’t fare much better on the night, going 4\/7 for 28 yards and just one pick. <\/span>Darren “Crockett” Tubbs was once again the leader on the ground, with 13 carries for 54 yards, an average of just over four per carry. <\/span>Midway through the third quarter, trailing 22-0, Stephen Burton returned a kickoff 85 yards for the Vikings’ only score. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n LBCC will close their 2008 season next Saturday, in a game against Orange Coast College.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In their final game at Vet’s of the season, the Vikings lost to the Hornets by a score of 43-7.<\/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-5354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354","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=5354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5354"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}