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Trying to grasp for answers
Football teams woes continue as they lose seventh game of their disappointing season
Alexandra Smith, Navid Khoi / Roundup
Offensive struggles caused the Pierce Brahma football team to lose its seventh game of the year.
The Brahmas’ lost to Los Angeles Southwest College this past Saturday 26-19.
13 of the 19 Pierce points came from freshman place kicker Brian Gutierez.
Gutierez made a carrer long field goal in this game, it was a 34 yard feild goal.
“Offensively we just couldn’t get anything going because we had problems all over the place,” said assistant head coach Jason Sabolic.
Pierce had 11 penalties for 103 yards.
LA Southwest only received 5 penalties throughout the game causing a loss of only 40 yards.
The Brahmas running game was very efficient by having a 176 yards on 34 carries.
Josh Johnson who started the game carried the ball 21 times for 107 yards rushing.
Starting quarterback Jake Basmagian threw three interceptions and completed less than 50 percent of his passes.
“We started out really good in the first half. We came out like we were ready to play, however we just couldn’t finish our drives,” said Sabolic.
Pierce will be going into a bye week before they head into their last game of the year.
The Brahmas’ last game of the year on Novermber 12 will be against their rival Valley College.
