Pictured L-R: Tayvonne Miller & Kannon Katzer
College Football:
Citrus College closed the 2023 season on a high note.
The Owls claimed a 48-34 victory over visiting Long Beach in a game that featured 864 yards of total offense.
Citrus won four of their last five games.
In Saturday’s win, LBCC never led, and the closest they got to catching the Owls was a 13-7 deficit in the first quarter.
Citrus scored twice in the first 4:47 of Saturday’s contest and never looked back.
Kannon Katzer and Tayvonne Miller scored on runs of 34 and 68 yards, respectively, to give the Owls a 13-0 lead.
Citrus had a 268-27 advantage on the ground.
Katzer rushed for 129 yards on just 11 carries.
He had TD runs of 34, 37 and 14 yards.
Miller had a game-high 149 yards on 23 carries, including his first-quarter TD run.
Miller also caught a pair of passes for 61 yards.
Koy Riggin was 17-of-27 for 225 yards.
Riggin had TD strikes of 12 and 9 yards to Donovan Zackery.
Jesse Carmona caught four passes for 71 yards.
Erik Saiz had five receptions for 58 yards.
Zackery finished with three catches for 24 yards and the two scores.
As mentioned, LBCC pulled to within 13-7, but that didn’t last long.
On the ensuing kickoff, Brayden Austin returned the ball 92 yards for a 21-7 lead.
Will Madonna completed 21-of-45 for 294 yards for Long Beach.
Madonna threw for five TD’s, and he was picked three times.
Jaquavion Caldwell (47 & 30 yards) and Matthew Berenji (5 & 6) had two TD catches apiece.
Caldwell had five receptions for 105 yards.
Once again, Chandler Carthan led Citrus with a game-high nine tackles.
Hunter Corbin had seven tackles and an interception.
Yilias Wallace picked a pass and had four tackles.
In his final game at Citrus, Drew Merrill had two tackles, including one for-loss.
And Merrill intercepted Madonna and returned it 15 yards.
A special congratulations to the Owls sophomores.
They went 18-3 in their two years at the Glendora school, including the only perfect season (11-0 in 2022) in program history.
That also included an American Metro Conference championship.
Box Score:
LB: 14-0-14-6-(34)
C: 28-7-6-7-(48)
Scoring:
CC: Kannon Katzer 34 run (Kosuke Kayahara kick)
CC: Tayvonne Miller 68 run (kick failed)
LB: Jaquavion Caldwell 47 pass from Will Madonna (Ethan Smithlin kick)
CC: Brayden Austin 92 kickoff return (Kannon Katzer run)
LB: Matthew Berenji 5 pass from Will Madonna (Ethan Smithlin kick)
CC: Kannon Katzer 37 run. (Kosuke Kayahara kick)
CC: Kannon Katzer 14 run (Kosuke Kayahara kick)
LB: Matthew Berenji 6 pass from Will Madonna (Ethan Smithlin kick)
LB: Ashun Brown 45 pass from Will Madonna (Ethan Smithlin kick)
CC: Donovan Zackery 12 pass from Koy Riggin (kick failed)
CC: Donovan Zackery 9 pass from Koy Riggin. (Kosuke Kayahara kick)
LB: Jaquavion Caldwell 30 pass from Will Madonna (kick failed)
National Central Conference Scores:
Mt. SAC 33, Golden West 21
OCC 20, SBVC 14
Citrus 48, LBCC 34
National Central Conference Standings:
Mt. SAC (10-0, 7-0)
Golden West (8-2, 6-1)
Citrus (7-3, 4-3)
ELAC (6-4, 4-3)
Cerritos (5-5, 3-4)
LBCC (4-6, 3-4)
OCC (1-9, 1-6)
SBVC (1-9, 0-7)
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