Off to a 2-0 start and coming off its second straight blowout win, the College of San Mateo football team will take a big step up when they travel to face American River at 1 p.m. Saturday just outside Sacramento.
The Bulldogs, ranked second in the state by the JC Athletic Bureau, and the 12th-ranked Beavers have developed quite a little rivalry the last several years, with the teams splitting a pair of meetings last season. American River handed CSM its only regular-season loss last year in Week 5, 21-20. But the Bulldogs got the ultimate revenge by beating the Beavers in the Nor Cal championship game, 24-21.
American River is coming off an undefeated National-NorCal Conference championship and an overall record of 10-2. This season, the Beavers are off to a 1-1 start, having been routed by Laney-Oakland last week, 41-14. American River led 14-13 after the first quarter last week, but didn’t score the rest of the game.
The Beavers have struggled offensively to start the season. In their 28-14 season-opening win over Sacramento, American River had 277 yards of total offense. Last week, Laney held them to 203.
CSM, one of 13 teams with 2-0 records, is on the other end of the offensive spectrum. The Bulldogs have outscored its two opponents 73-12, despite being on its third quarterback in two games. Starter Kamalii Akina went down with an injury in the first quarter of the season-opening, 43-0 win over Siskiyous. Matt Adamkiewicz came in to finish off and had a fine performance, going 13 for 19 for 186 yards and touchdown.
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In last week’s 31-12 win over San Joaquin Delta, San Jose State transfer Terrell Carter shared time for Adamkiewicz. Carter finished with 149 yards and three touchdowns on 8-of-18 passing. Carter also led the team in rushing, finishing with 95 yards on 11 carries.
As a team, CSM racked up 438 yards of total offense.
Defensively, the Bulldogs hounded the Mustangs all game long. They held them to a total of 137 yards of offense and sacked the Delta quarterback six times, led by Nathan Talakai’s two.
Former Burlingame standout Bubba Palu led the team in tackles with eight, while former Serra star TC Lavulo finished with seven.
This game will be broadcast live on BAOSN.TV and the Amazon Twitch app, and will be on tape delay nationally at 8:30 p.m. Saturday night on ELEVEN SPORTS USA, which is channel 623 on DirecTV and channel 1665 on AT&T U-Verse.
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