Cal Maritime Loses to SF Golden Gate U23’s in Pre-season

(Vallejo, Dec 2, 2006) – Cal Maritime traveled to its first road game against SF Golden Gate U23’s on Treasure Island and suffered a 60-12 defeat.

This pre-season game format comprised of three periods of 30 minutes to allow both teams to experiment with new combinations.  

The first period was closely contested and the Keelhaulers kept possession well and constructed their first score from a strong scrum on the SFGG five meter line. Rookie Rufus Walker scored his second try in two games after good scrimmaging from the Cal Maritime tight five. SFGG responded with two tries to take the 14-5 lead after the first period.

In the second period, with many new combinations on the field, Cal Maritime struggled to maintain possession and SFGG stormed to a 44-5 lead.

The final period saw Cal Maritime re-gain parity up front and score another try through Michael Schindler which Joel Bruce converted but by this time the game was already lost.

“We played reasonably well in the first period but I think our inexperience showed in the second period before and the game had already got away from us as a contest by then,” said coach Edward Roberts. “We clearly have some work to do defensively and need to contest for the ball with more aggression. This was a very different type of game than the one we played last week against Stanford and we need to take the lessons we were given and work hard to learn from them.”

Cal Maritime’s next game is against Santa Rosa JC on Dec 8 in Vallejo.

Tries: Schindler, Walker.
Cons: Bruce.