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Sometimes you can sense a season starting to slip away. <\/span>For the LBCC Vikings football team, that time is right now. <\/span>Going into Saturday’s game against the Palomar Comets, they were 3-3, and 0-2 in conference play, with just four games left to turn things around. <\/span>After a hard 20-7 loss, they’re now 3-4, and 0-3 in conference. <\/span>Winning out would only bring them to 3-3 in the Southern Conference, and might not even qualify them for postseason play.<\/span><\/p>\n The game started well enough, with the Vikes getting on the board first, with a 65-yard Josh Powell touchdown pass to his favorite target Stephen Burton a little more than a minute into the game. <\/span>After that pass (the result of a Comets blown coverage), the defenses took over, and the first half ended with LBCC up 7-3. <\/span>Then, in the third quarter, the Vikes had strung together a great drive, inching all the way down to the Comets’ goal line, where they found themselves in a 4th<\/sup>-and-goal just a few inches from taking a decisive lead. <\/span>Instead, the Comets stopped them, and proceeded to march 99 yards in 17 plays to score, going up 10-7, and never relinquishing the lead.<\/span><\/p>\n As usual, there were bright spots for LBCC, as Powell threw for 200 yards, and Travell Washington had 71 yards on 9 carries. <\/span>In the end, though, football is a game of inches, and the Vikings lost the battle for the goal line, then had to watch the Comets march downfield and take the game away from them. <\/span>The game is won or lost on inches, and sometimes, seasons hang on them.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Proving that football really is a game of inches, the Vikings lost this one by the slimmest of margins.<\/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-5425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425","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=5425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5425"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}