Closing out its 2004 campaign in fine fashion, the University of La Verne football team led from start to finish, easily dominating Whittier College, 41-21, at Newman Field in Whittier.
In a game that could have put the University of La Verne on top in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, the Leopards literally let the game slip from their hands as they fell, 37-31, to the defending SCIAC champions, University of Redlands, Saturday at Ortmayer Stadium.
Trying to continue its winning ways, the Leopard football team ran into a wall of Tigers as Occidental used 28 first-half points to close the door early en route to a 35-7 victory on a chilling Saturday night at Occidental College.
In a battle of winless teams trying to fight their way out of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference cellar, Whittier College used a five-play, 93-yard drive with 2:35 remaining for the winning score to hand the Leopards their seventh consecutive loss, 21-14, Saturday afternoon at Ortmayer Stadium.