The Fresno City College football team suffered comes down with the turnover bug in their 17-13 loss against Santa Rosa.

This loss evened the Rams record to 1-1, while Santa Rosa improves to 2-0.

Missed opportunities and turnover is the difference that saw the Rams falling short as victory was within their grasp.

The first quarter was a defensive battle on both sides with neither team gaining an advantage until Rams running back Nate Jones broke free for a 35-yard touchdown giving the Rams the lead, but the team missed the point after.

This sparked the Rams offense to move the ball more effectively down the field, but struggled to get the ball in the endzone.

Rams quarterbacks threw five total interceptions, with four from Anthony Monken one from Andrew Zimmerman.

Zimmerman’s interception was taken back for a Santa Rosa touchdown, giving the Bearcubs the 7-6 lead into the half.

Rams head coach Tony Caviglia realized that they left a lot of points on the board.

“We played a really good team and we shot ourselves in the foot their, being able to move down the field and to have it not result in points, we can’t have that,” Caviglia said.

The second half started with both teams sharing scores, but with Santa Rosa scoring two touchdowns to the Rams one on a Monken 49-yard touchdown pass to receiver Ian Charles, which cut the Bearcubs lead 17-13.

Building off momentum late in the fourth quarter, the Rams drove down the field to the one yard line, on the cusp of taken the lead.

Failing to make it passed the goal line forced the final interception that would close the door on a comeback.

Every member of the Rams roster know that they missed opportunities and they are hoping to take what they learned from this game into them being a better team for the remainder of this season.

 Next week’s match has the Rams traveling to face 0-2 San Mateo.

“We just got to know our assignments and get more physical as we get down to the red zone and being able to punch it in. said Jones “ Because this can’t happen and expect to win”.