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California Loses to Oregon State, 10-38, Clinches Losing Football Season
The California Golden Bears (3-7, 1-6 Pac-12) clinched a dropping soccer season in its 10-38 shellacking in Corvallis, Ore., in opposition to the Oregon State Beavers (7-3, 4-3 Pac-12) Saturday night time.
The final time California had a successful soccer season was in 2019 when it went 8-5, together with victories at Ole Miss, No. 14 Washington, Stanford and USC.
“It is vitally troublesome—I get that—however the efficiency is unacceptable,” mentioned California head coach Justin Wilcox within the post-game press convention. “We will not settle for that.”
California’s offense didn’t maintain any significant drives and was a non-factor in opposition to Oregon State.
In 23 minutes and 22 seconds of possession, the Golden Bears may solely rack up 160 yards of offense, together with a measly 9 whole speeding yards.
California star operating again Jaydn Ott had solely eight rushes, sufficient to contribute solely 20 speeding yards.
Quarterback Jack Plummer managed to move 151 yards, going 22-for-34, together with one interception.
After the sport, Coach Wilcox instructed reporters that he deliberate to place Kai Millner within the fourth quarter. Nonetheless, the protection failed to carry off the Beavers to provide the backup play-caller an opportunity to play.
“He [Millner] was going within the subsequent sequence, and we did not cease them. With the intention to get the offense on the sector, now we have to cease them,” defined Coach Wilcox, referring to the Beavers offense. “We did not do this.”
California’s solely landing got here from a scoop-and-score by cornerback Jeremiah Earby with 2:33 remaining within the second quarter. Earby returned the Oregon State fumble 33 yards to chop the deficit to 7-21.
The Golden Bears’ different rating was a 36-yard subject purpose by backup kicker Michael Luckhurst. The primary-year’s boot introduced the rating to 10-31 with 12:30 remaining within the recreation.
Luckhurst earned his first profession subject purpose after first-string kicker Dario Longhetto missed a 48-yard subject purpose with 8:21 remaining within the third quarter.
California has now misplaced its sixth recreation in a row.
“We’ve not performed as much as the usual we have set as a workforce. We’ve not coached effectively sufficient. We’ve not performed effectively sufficient,” famous Coach Wilcox. “It is simply completely unacceptable. I do not know what else to say.”
Price the Cal v. Oregon State soccer recreation, and skim the post-game reactions from the Write for California group.