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Varsity Warrior Austen Perona tackles San Marcos High quarterback Bryson Bolin during Fallbrook's 42-0 loss on Sept. 18. Sources said the Warriors are struggling with injuries. Shane Gibson photos
Fallbrook's Eric McCarter makes a catch for a large gain that lead to a go-ahead touchdown for the freshman Warriors. Courtesy photos
Fallbrook varsity football players prepare for the Sept. 18 game against San Marcos High.
Fallbrook's Nahshon Hagan dives for a San Marcos High opponent during the Sept. 18 varsity game, which San Marcos won, 42-0.
Warrior Bryce Olivo, right, helps teammate Tyler Machado off the turf during Fallbrook's Sept. 18 varsity loss against San Marcos High.
Fallbrook's Nahshon Hagan makes a strong effort at getting a first down during the Sept. 18 varsity game against San Marcos High. Fallbrook lost, 42-0.
Frosh Warrior Joseph Portillo (#42) and another Fallbrook linebacker break up a pass during the Sept. 17 game against San Marcos. The Knights won after scoring a last-minute touchdown, 20-13.
Fallbrook's Mikel Jackson drops a San Marcos running back for a loss during the JV Warriors Sept. 18
JV Warrior Alvin Figueroa tries to break through the San Marcos defensive line during the Sept. 18 game. Figueroa scored the only touchdown for Fallbrook JV team in a 48-6 loss.
The Sept. 18 football game at Fallbrook High School ended with San Marcos prevailing over Fallbrook by a 42-0 margin. Fallbrook coach Kyle Williams can accept the loss to the San Diego Section's 10th-ranked team, although the mistakes the Warrior players made will be the subject of subsequent team practices.
"It's not so much the final score as the way we actually played the game. We're disappointed in that," Williams said.
"It's our mistakes that didn't allow us to be successful," Williams said. "We feel it's more about us than about the people that we play."
The result against San Marcos gave Fallbrook a 2-2 record. The Warriors opened their season Aug. 28 with a 28-7 loss at Westview, which was ranked 11th in the San Diego Section. "We've played a difficult schedule thus far," Williams said.
Fallbrook is in Division III for CIF playoff purposes. Twelve of the 16 Division III teams will participate in the CIF playoffs. Only three of those 16 teams had winning records after the first four games of the season, and Fallbrook was one of four Division III programs with a 2-2 mark. La Jolla would have had a 2-2 mark had the Vikings defeated Fallbrook in a Sept. 11 match on the neutral University City High School field, but the Warriors took a 30-12 halftime lead and won by a 59-18 margin. "Our kids came out ready and fired up," Williams said.
The victory over La Jolla gave Fallbrook a two-game winning streak; the Warriors outscored Serra 47-0 Sept. 4. "We definitely fixed some errors since Westview," Williams said.
Westview is in Division II and was undefeated after the Wolverines' first four games of 2015. San Marcos is in Division I; the win over Fallbrook improved the Knights' season record to 3-1 with the loss occurring against Oceanside, whose only 2014 defeat was in the state finals.
"San Marcos is one of the most talented teams in the county," Williams said. "They were able to exploit mistakes that we made."
Fallbrook has an Oct. 2 bye and will begin Valley League play Oct. 9 at Escondido, so the losses which exposed the Warriors' pre-league shortcomings might be more to the detriment of the other Valley League teams. "They have to concentrate on the right things, to be very disciplined," Williams said of his players.
"Success to us is going to be doing the right things," Williams said. "If we can do those things we'll be successful whatever the score is."
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