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Photo by
Juan Velez.
Matthew Moody sacked Ventura
quarterback Lee Mondol to help preserve
the win for Cerritos Saturday night. |
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Employing a
bend-but-don't-break defense the first three
quarters of their game against Ventura College on
Saturday night, the Cerritos College football team
bent as far as they could on the last play of the
game. With the Pirates on the verge of pulling out a
win, Falcon freshman linebacker
Matthew
Moody (Sonora HS) sacked
Ventura quarterback Lee Mondol on the last play of
the game, securing an 18-13 win for Cerritos. With
the win, the Falcons improved to 3-1 on the season,
while the Pirates dropped to 3-1. The team will now
travel to Chaffey College for a 6:00 p.m. game next
Saturday.
After opening up a
12-0 lead through the first three quarters, Cerritos
saw the Pirates score twice on Mondol touchdown
passes to take a 13-12 lead
with 5:15 left in the fourth quarter. On the ensuing
kickoff, Pirate kicker David Mietnzer sent a low
kick that was taken by freshman
Marshawn
Friloux (Bellflower HS) at the
Ventura 46-yard line. The Falcons drove the 46 yards
on seven plays
and retook the lead on a one-yard plunge by
sophomore
Junior
Tivao (Paramount HS), his
third touchdown of the game with 1:05 left in the
game. The two-point attempt was missed and Cerritos
just needed to shut down Ventura to collect the won.
Just as Mietnzer
did with his kickoff, Falcon freshman kicker
Nick
Arellano (St. John Bosco HS)
appeared to kick the top of the ball and the Pirates
downed the ball at the Cerritos 47-yard line. Monsol
completed two straight passes and rushed twice for
17 yards to put the ball at the Falcon 10-yard line.
After an incomplete pass and a timeout, Moody
finished the game off by wrapping up Monsol for a
10-yard loss and a win for Cerritos.
Ventura controlled
the ball for the majority of the game, and held
possession 15 minutes longer than Cerritos
(37:58-22:02), while
they outgained the Falcons, 382-203.
Cerritos took a
6-0 lead when Tivao busted into the end zone from
two yards out and went up 12-0 with 5:40 left in the
third quarter when Tivao reached the end zone from a
yard out. On the night, Tivao ran the ball four
times for seven yards and three touchdowns. Freshman
running back
Tylik
Carter (Long Beach Jordan HS)
led the team with 61 yards on 15 carries, while
sophomore quarterback
Jeffrey
Fischer (Lakewood HS)
struggled by completing just 10-of-21 passes for 124
yards. Sophomore
Sheldon
Smith (Culver City HS) and
freshman
Michael
Willie (Long Beach Wilson HS)
each caught four passes to lead the team.
Moody was all over
the field and led the way with 11 stops, two sacks
and two tackles for loss, while freshman defensive
back
Eric
Russell (Gahr HS) added 10
stops. Freshman linebacker
David
Flores (St. Paul HS) finished
with nine tackles, with Tivao adding eight tackles.
Sophomore defensive back
LeQuan
Lewis (Artesia HS/College of the Sequoias)
made to superb special teams plays, as he blocked
two field goal attempts in a row. The first was
called back due to a Cerritos penalty, but he got
through again and blocked the kick again to halt a
Ventura scoring drive. As a team, the Falcons posted six tackles for loss.
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