Bakersfield College fell to 1-3 Saturday night (Sept. 27) when it lost 32-29 to undefeated El Camino College on a field goal with 10 seconds remaining.

Several thing jumped out at me as I watched the game:

-- El Camino, for an undefeated team that's ranked 4th in the state, made so many mistakes.

-- BC, which looked fairly adept at running the ball in the first half, was completely stopped in the second half.

--BC also made so many mistakes on a lot of little things, the type of things that have reared their head numerous times in the first four games.

Let's address each of those items.

El Camino: Three times in the second quarter, the Warriors were penalized for delay of game -- simply because they were slow getting their plays off.

Twice in the third quarter, El Camino had to call time out because it had only 10 men on the field. Twice El Camino was penalized for having 12 men on the field. One of those gave BC a first down on the Gades' only second-half touchdown drive as BC lined up to go for a first down on fourth-and-inches.

Then there were the physical mistakes by El Camino: fumbled snap from center to quarterback (at least twice); quarterback fumbling twice on decent (not great) snaps in shotgun formation. Two poor snaps on place-kicks (one PAT was blocked; one field goal was made despite a poor snap).

El Camino won this game because it had a dominant performance on the offensive and defensive lines. The best illustration of that: total yards in the 2nd half. BC had nine net rushing yards and 37 passing yards (46 total yards). El Camino in the 2nd half: 62 rushing yards and 142 passing yards (204 total yards). BC: 2 first downs in the 2nd half, El Camino 10.

BC: Bruce Frieson, who had three TD runs and a game-high 98 yards on 15 carries, had only five carries (for 11 yards with a lost fumble) in the second half. Frieson's lost fumble came on BC's first play from scrimmage in the third quarter and set up a field goal.

Andre Smith, probably BC's second-most dangerous player behind Frieson, touched the ball three times in the second half  (excluding kick returns) -- on three straight carries in the third quarter, gaining nine yards.

BC mistakes: The Renegades had to burn a timeout by having only 10 men on the field with El Camino closing in on a touchdown.

The BC kicking game again struggled. Arturo Villa had a PAT blocked and missed another one when El Camino had a hard rush from his left that he had to see out of the corner of his eyes. Punter Will Mahan had a great kicking game, but even he was pressured and El Camino came close to blocking a pair of punts.

And those third-down conversions, which were so costly to BC in its season-opening 31-25 loss to Fresno. BC was only 1-of-7 but El Camino was 11-of-16, and 6-of-6 in the second half.

As mentioned in the story that ran Sunday morning: All five of BC's scoring drives began inside El Camino territory. When BC started drives inside Renegade territory, the Gades never crossed midfield.

BC opens its conference play next Saturday at Pasadena. Pasadena beat RIverside City College 32-15 on Saturday.

Another score of note: Santa Monica, which BC routed 60-14 last week, beat L.A. Valley (which beat BC two weeks ago). That score was 38-24.