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In a wild game that saw 107 total points scored, the LBCC Vikings came up short against Saddleback, losing 63-44. <\/span>The Vikings fall to 3-3 and 0-2 in conference play, while Saddleback is 5-2 and a perfect 3-0 in the Southern Conference. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The scoring started early, with LBCC jumping out to a quick 7-0 lead, which narrowed to 10-7 at the end of the first. <\/span>Saddleback exploded in the second quarter, though, and there was little the LBCC defense could do to contain it. <\/span>Saddleback QB Brian Shrock threw four touchdowns in the second, as the Vikings were outscored 28-7, giving Saddleback a 35-17 lead and halftime that proved to be insurmountable. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It’s hard to find fault with the Vikings offense, who scored 44 points and gained 415 yards on the night. <\/span>QB Josh Powell’s completion percentage remained less than impressive, at 17 of 44, or about 38%. <\/span>But still, he managed to throw for 321 yards and three scores, including 6 passes for 153 yards and a touchdown to his favorite target Stephen Burton, freshly returned off of a suspension. <\/span>The running game wasn’t as productive, gaining only 94 yards, but Darren “Crockett And” Tubbs had a 6-yard touchdown run to start things off. <\/span>If there was a problem with this side of the ball for the Vikes, it was Powell’s two interceptions, one of which was returned for Saddleback’s first TD of the evening.<\/span><\/p>\n The defense, while allowing an enormous amount of scoring, did return a fumble for a touchdown, and managed to get some pressure on Shrock, sacking him four times and knocking him down an additional five. <\/span>Bryan Braman had three sacks on the evening. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Vikings will next play on the road, next Saturday at Palomar.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" They put the offensive struggles of last week behind them, but the Vikings lost a horse race with Saddleback Saturday evening.<\/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-5455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455","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=5455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=5455"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}