The La Verne Leopards faced off against the Whittier Poets for a wet and rainy Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Homecoming football game with La Verne coming out the victors, 43-20, after big plays and even bigger lightning strikes on Oct. 15 at Ortmayer Stadium.
The Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags stole the show as they defeated the Leopards, 41-13, during Saturday’s Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football home opener at Ortmayer Stadium.
The football team came back in the last seconds of the fourth quarter to win the Homecoming game against the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens in front of a packed crowd of alumni and supporters Saturday at Ortmayer Stadium, 38-37.
The Leopards’ defense held the Poets’ offense to 26 points after receiving two interceptions and restricted their run plays to just a few yards throughout the game.