Demetric Felton scores one of his two first half touchdowns against the Trojans. (Photo Credit: @uclafootball)
The UCLA Bruins lead the Southern Cal Trojans in the LA City Championship at the half by a score of 21-10.
On the first drive of the game, Quentin Lake intercepted a pass from Kedon Slovis, but the Bruins couldn’t do anything with it and they went three and out.
On UCLA’s next possession, the Bruins started on their own 15-yard line. But they drove 85 yards on 10 plays as Dorian Thompson-Robinson threw a 33-yard pass to Ethan Fernea for a touchdown, giving the Bruins a 7-0 lead.
UCLA’s defense struggled a bit on the next drive as the Bruins allowed Southern Cal to move 47 yards, but, ultimately, the defense held and they forced a 45-yard field goal attempt, which was no good and which proved that Parker Lewis can, in fact, lose.
After the teams traded punts, the Bruins took advantage of an Unsportsmanlike Conduct call against Southern Cal and that gave the Bruins the ball at Southern Cal’s 21. On the very next play, DTR hit Demetric Felton for a 21-yard TD pass and the Bruins lead, 14-0.
Unfortunately, Southern Cal responded with a 65-yard pass to Drake London, which made the Bruin defense look like a clown show as player after player couldn’t tackle London.
Then, the pendulum almost swung back in the Trojans favor. On the Bruins’ second play of the next drive, DTR threw a terrible pass right at Trojan defender Isaiah Pola-Mao which was intercepted. But the UCLA defense held strong and forced Southern Cal to attempt another field goal. This time, Lewis was good. UCLA still led, 14-10.
The Bruins got the ball back and took their time moving downfield with almost surgical precision. With it 3rd and goal from the Trojan 12-yard line and just 35 seconds left, DTR found Felton who weaved his way into the end zone to put the Bruins up 21-10 with just 20 seconds to go and that’s how the half ended.
The Bruins will receive the ball to start the second half after winning the coin toss and deferring their selection.
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GBRUIN the Prophet "Remember we dominated ASU in the first half last week, but then looked really flat to start the 2nd half. Hope we come out of half-time ready to go this week."
TD Brown! Go Bruins!!!
Good start to the half
Let’s just pound these clowns.
Ok here we go
I like that the score is already obsolete by the time I click over to the new thread
Gotta stay focused on defense, rivalry games always get weird
Is this our last game?
I believe so Rodney
No mercy, Bruins....keep that train rollin!
Our corner did a good job staying step for step on that long bomb
Wow to easy
We need our offense to march down the field and answer that score
Blaylock looked like he was slowing up. Too easy.
It's okay, this wasn't suppose to be an easy game.. let's go offense
We will be ready for the deep ball next time
Surprised we fair caught that
First down let's go
move the chains
Dam 4th down
Didn't like this sequence
All around ugly
Okay, that was pure ugly right there
SC great field position
And now the mistakes...
Special teams killing us again
Our punt protection has been horrible all year.
They are getting the momentum come on defense..
Move em back...
Lets' go, D!!!
We need to hold them right here.. DEFENSE!!!
Knee was down
too much cushion
Those cushions are just too big.
Our secondary giving to much respect to their WR
Ref keeps calling SC UCLA.... dumb refs
We need a turnover here.
3rd down let's go
Yeah, QB has too much time...
Wow to easy
What ever happened to press coverage?
3rd and goal
We need to answer now!
At least they blew the two point conversion
Good stop.. now we have to do something on offense
Did he hurt his arm?
Idiots. They'll regret that one.
GBRUIN the Prophet "Remember we dominated ASU in the first half last week, but then looked really flat to start the 2nd half. Hope we come out of half-time ready to go this week."
Crazy how we started half with the ball yet SUC has scored twice
Wowsers