VALLEY COMES UP SHORT IN SHOWDOWN : BAKERSFIELD 25, VALLEY 7.Byline: Patrick Hipes Daily News Staff Writer It had been billed as the clash of Titans. Valley College's dizzying pass attack against Bakersfield's punishing running game. Instead, it turned out neither offense really showed in earnest Saturday night at Monarch Stadium Monarch Stadium is a 6,000-seat multipurpose stadium in Valley Glen, California on the campus of Los Angeles Valley College. It was built in 1951, and has always been the home of the college's Monarchs football, soccer and track and field teams. . In a battle of defense, it was top-ranked defense Bakersfield that did the most damage, forcing six Valley turnovers - five on interceptions - and many more bumps and bruises Bruises Definition Bruises, or ecchymoses, are a discoloration and tenderness of the skin or mucous membranes due to the leakage of blood from an injured blood vessel into the tissues. Pupura refers to bruising as the result of a disease condition. , while trudging to a 25-7 victory. The win for the Renegades (4-0) ended a two-game losing streak against their Western State conference rivals. The Monarchs (2-1) watched their 12-game victory streak fall away. Bakersfield scored 18 unanswered points - the last on a blocked punt, recovered by Josh Manning in the end zone with 8:02 left in the third quarter. They put the game away on a crunching 18-play, 81-yard drive that took better than nine minutes, scoring on a 5-yard run by backup quarterback Jeff Dover with 8:00 to play. The drive came after Valley had obtained a brief glimmer of momentum after Leaford Hackett ran back a Joel Long punt 83 yards for a touchdown to get the Monarchs within 18-7 with 2:05 left in the third quarter. That set up the Renegades' rugged drive, which included five first downs, a fourth-down conversion and a recovery of their own fumble deep in Valley territory. The Bakersfield defense did the rest, holding the Monarchs to an eye-popping 67 yards of total offense - 433 yards below their season average, ``It's no mystery they executed better than we did,'' Monarchs coach Gene Barlow bar·low n. An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife. [After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.] said. ``The turnovers were really the difference in the game.'' The Renegades scored first, using a Valley personal-foul penalty on a fourth-down play to keep alive what would become a 16-play drive. Jason Martin Jason Martin is a musician from Southern California. He is best known as a member of the indie rock band Starflyer 59, one of the first bands to sign with Tooth & Nail Records. kicked a 38-yard field goal to end that drive, giving Bakersfield a 3-0 lead with 4:07 left in the opening quarter. Martin added a 33-yarder one play into the second quarter, pushing the lead to 6-0. Bakersfield finally found "Finally Found" was the debut single from the Honeyz. This was their most successful single in the UK and worldwide, securing a number 4 position in the UK singles chart and achieved platinum status in Australia [1] Tracklisting # Title Length the end zone with 26 seconds left in the half, when the Renegades converted Valley quarterback Tom Racius' third interception of the half into a score. After the interception, by Troy Richardson, Bakersfield backup quarterback Jeff Dover found Tyran Spencer alone in the end zone on a 5-yard scoring pass. Racius, who led the WSC WSC Winter Symposium on Chemometrics WSC Winter Simulation Conference WSC Wayne State College WSC Westfield State College (Westfield, MA) WSC Western State College (Colorado) in both passing yardage yard·age 1 n. 1. An amount or length measured in yards. 2. Cloth sold by the yard. Noun 1. (745) and completion percentage (69.2) entering the game, completed just seven of 16 passes for 41 yards by halftime. Instead of testing the Bakersfield defense with their potent passing attack, the Monarchs opted for the run. Tailback tail·back n. Football The back on an offensive team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage. tailback Noun Brit a queue of traffic stretching back from an obstruction Antwane Smith rushed for 41 yards as Valley ran the ball 13 times in the first half. The Monarchs' inability to move ball on offense in the first half is not a new phenomenan. Barlow had been concerned after Valley trailed at halftime 17-7 against Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. in the season opener and 7-3 against College of the Desert two weeks ago. Racius and the Monarchs' offense recovered in both of those games, but neither opponent was the caliber of Bakersfield, which came into the contest allowing fewer than 300 yards per game. ``It didn't (fall) all on one person's shoulders,'' Barlow said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Valley College wide receiver Leaford Hackett is grabbed by Bakersfield defensive back Kevin Burton. Bakersfield forced six Valley turnovers en route to a 25-7 victory. Michael Owen
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