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Not pretty but still a WIN
Four touchdowns get Brahmas their first win of the season
Alexandria Smith/ Roundup
Avoiding the letdown of another loss to the 0-5 Glendale College, the Brahmas’ football team scored 28 points as they won their first game of the year on the road on Saturday.
A huge momentum shift in the offense was that starting quarterback Jake Basmajian returned from injury to help the team win by a score of 28-20.
“Jake did a great job. He is a natural leader and coming back into the game helped the offense immensely with his leadership skills and the ability to throw the ball,” said Brahmas’ assistant head coach Jason Sabolic.
His ability to see outside of the pocket from inside gained him access all game creating successful plays for the running backs and receiver according to head coach Efrain Martinez.
Offensive line did a great job protecting Basmajian allowing him to complete multiple passes.
“It definitely feels good to get back on the field tonight and finally get this W,” said Basmajian. “It wasn’t pretty and we made it a little harder than it should have been, we could have scored on a couple more opportunities but the most important part is that we got a W.”
After the Glendale Vaqueros’ quarterback Darren Orsbern was sacked, tight end Anthony Carter came in as his replacement.
“I think that Pierce played very well, they were very opportunistic,” said Glendale head coach John Rome. “However I think when you can only play with 10 players because you are missing a quarterback it is very limiting.”
Linebacker Marcus Jenkins recovered two fumbles throughout the game.
Pierce did a great job completing passes and finding room to gain yards, however they had a couple of setbacks with personal fouls as well as other penalties.
Brahmas suffered 13 penalties totaling in a loss of 120 yards throughout the game.
“We ran the ball well and we had a solid defense all game long,” said assistant coach Sabolic. “However we got a lot of things to fix we still made a lot of mistakes, we got room to grow and we’re going to get better next week.”
Although this week was a must win, next game will also be just as intense and important.
Finally playing as a football team and executing plays gained them their first win and will be one of the key points to winning their next conference game at Santa Barbara on Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.
