Make it a three-game winning streak for the 2019 Reedley College football Tigers.
Reedley improved to 6-1 overall and 3-0 in Golden Coast Conference action with a 61-13 victory over the San Jose City College Jaguars last Saturday in San Jose.
Next up for head coach Eric Marty's Tigers will be a 1 pm Saturday matchup at Reedley High School's Sal Gonzalez Field against the Merced College Blue Devils. Merced brings a conference record of 1-2 and an overall mark of 3-4 after last Saturday's 22-19 loss at home to the Hartnell College Panthers. All but one of the Blue Devil's losses have been by six points or less.
It was the second-highest single-game point total for the 2019 Tigers, who are now averaging 46.4 points per game.
Reedley scored at least 12 points in each quarter, including 23 points in the second Aas the Tigers opened up a 36-13 halftime lead. In the second half, Reedley outscored the winless Jaguars 25-0. The 61 points were the highest point total allowed this season by San Jose. The previous high was 42 points, scored by Hartnell on Oct. 19.
Daniel Baca, Jamon Chambers, and Derrik Mays all scored two touchdowns for Reedley. Starting quarterback Drew's Zaubi completed 18 of 21 passes for 277 yards and four touchdowns. Peyton Mayer took over in the fourth quarter up and threw for two touchdowns, completing six of nine for 99 yards. Chambers finished the afternoon, averaging 11.9 yards per carry with 95 yards and eight attempts. Nine different tigers carried a ball and nine different tigers caught passes.
The Tigers opened the scoring on a 22-yard touchdown pass from Zaubi to Baca. Chambers made it 13-0 with a 74-yard run for a touchdown. The two had touchdown runs in the second quarter while Jorge Rosales kicked a 30-yard field goal. With six seconds left in the first half, Zaubi threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Mays.
Zaubi threw two touchdown passes of 58 yards each to Elijah Hawkins and Andy Pierre-Antoine in the third quarter. Mayer connected with Mays for an 8-yard scoring pass before concluding the scoring on an 18-yard pass to River Walker.
Reedley was able to put 61 points on the board despite finishing the afternoon with three turnovers, the Tigers lost three fumbles.
"Our team did a great job of going on the road with poise and focus," said Tiger head coach Eric Marty. "SJCC did a nice job keeping us off balance defensively in the first half, but it's great to see the way our staff and players responded to the challenge at halftime. Offensively, we were efficient all day sans turnovers and it's great to see us continue to improve on that side of the ball."
By: Will Goldbeck