The high pressure system that had gripped the Central Coast with hot temperatures for several days finally broke on Saturday.

Hours after it did, the fog rolled in. In the fog blanket that surrounded the field at Righetti High School's Warrior Stadium, Moorpark College's players on the Raiders sideline looked like silhouettes.

Hancock College quarterback Eric Anderwkavich, though, saw Dorson Boyce streaking open down the middle well enough in the third quarter to zip the ball to him. Boyce caught it and was off for a 35-yard touchdown play and the winning score as the Bulldogs scored an important 40-22 win over the Raiders Saturday evening.

“They just blitzed two safeties, and I just wanted to give him a nice easy toss,” said Anderwkavich, a sophomore from Flushing, NY.

“It was pretty hard to see out there, but our offensive line was blocking great all game.”

The unit's blocking was a big reason Diondrea Bryant racked up 180 yards on 18 carries, and the Bulldogs racked up 495 yards of total offense. They ran for 340, and Anderwkavich passed for 155.

Bryant ran for two touchdowns. “The offensive line was blocking great all game,” said the sophomore from Crawfordville, Fla. “It all starts with them.”

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Hancock moved to 2-2 in the Southern California Football Association National Conference's Northern Division and 5-3 overall. Moorpark fell to 0-3, 3-4 with its third straight loss.

The Bulldogs have two regular season games left, including a 6 p.m. division game at Glendale next Saturday. Anderwkavich and Boyce said the Bulldogs know they have to win both to have any chance to make the playoffs.

The top two teams from the division will get to play football after the regular season.

“It's one and we're done,” said Anderwkavich. “If we lose, then we're done. We have to have a great week of practice this week.”

Bryant said, “It's win or go home. We're just trying to keep our heads above water, dominate every game as much as we can. You know what's happened the last couple of years.”

What's happened the last couple of years is that the Bulldogs missed making the post-season after going bowling 11 of the previous 12.

Hancock improved its post-season prospects by outscoring the Raiders 21-0 the second half.

Moorpark led 22-19 at halftime, but after the Anderwkavich-to-Boyce touchdown play, Bryant scored from 46 yards out with 6:45 left in the third quarter, and St. Joseph graduate Thomas Sua ran in from six yards out with 4:48 left in the game as the Bulldogs salted away the win.

Bryant broke through a huge hole off tackle on his touchdown run, then Marguelo Suel helped spring Bryant with a big block at the 40. Sua bounced off a would-be tackle at the eight and sprinted in.

After Moorpark broke the Hancock defense with three scores in the first half, the Bulldogs unit bent but did not break in the second.

“We just got together at halftime, talked about it and decided we weren't going to have (any) more of it,” said Anderwkavich. “The defense came out and played great in the second half.”

The Bulldogs surrounded Moorpark quarterback Donald Senegal a lot in the first half but never sacked him. In the second half, they DID get him. Four times.

Brennan Locker sacked Senegal for the last time early in the fourth quarter. The Raiders punted, then the Bulldogs started a scoring drive that lasted 6:46. It ended with Sua's six-yard run.

Bulldogs coach Kris Dutra said, “We're still working on our tackling, but I saw a lot of improvement in the second half.”

His team will turn its attention to a Glendale team that Dutra said “is a lot like us in a lot of ways.

“Their statistics are more balanced, but they do a lot of the things we do.” That is, the Vaqueros play a physical brand of ball.

Cal Poly 69, So. Utah 41

SAN LUIS OBISPO - Ramses Barden broke one of Jerry Rice's NCAA records and ex-Righetti and Hancock star Jonathan Dally tied his own school record with six touchdown passes as Cal Poly rolled to victory over Southern Utah.

Barden caught a touchdown pass in a Mustang game for the 27th time, breaking Rice's record of 26 set while he played at Mississippi Valley State from 1981-84. With his 12 catches for 217 yards, Barden now has 181 grabs, breaking Darrell Jones' old school mark of 176.

Dally completed 22 of 26 passes for 410 yards and six touchdowns, equaling the mark he set against Weber State a year ago.

Cal Poly earned its fourth straight win and improved to 5-1 on the season and 2-0 in Great West games.

Southern Utah fell to 3-5 and 0-2.

Cal Poly never trailed, but couldnt shake the Thunderbirds until the second half. The two teams combined for over 700 yards of total offense in the first half and the Mustangs held a 35-34 edge at the break. But Cal Poly scored the first 34 points of the second half to pull away, surrendering only a two-yard run to Daryl Brown with 43 seconds to play in the game.

Senior slotback Ryan Mole scored three of Cal Poly's touchdowns, two on runs of 17 and two yards and the other on a 28-yard pass from Dally.

October 26, 2008