CEDAR CITY, Utah. — The #10 San Diego Toreros scored 21 unanswered points in the fourth quarter against the Southern Utah Thunderbirds to over come an early deficit. After trailing by 7 points late in the third quarter San Diego came to life, intercepting the Southern Utah QB and scoring a late touchdown in the waning seconds of the game to make 49-35 the final score.

San Diego Head Coach Zander Ackley was happy with his team’s second-half performance when asked what the Toreros did right today.

“After we were down a lot we started shifting our focus and played a lot more naturally… In the second half we stopped trying to force things and just focused on the fundamentals, and wouldn’t you know it, we forced three turnovers. We also paid a lot more attention to our offense and looked at finding patterns that we could exploit, and we were successful at that.”

The head coach spoke to the fact that they were rushing things in the first half and weren’t seeing a lot of success.

“In the first half I was trying to force plays too often, we were going for the turnover every time on defense, and we were consistently burned.”

Ackley adjusted his blue visor and scratched his head while talking about how San Diego can build on this win going into the next few weeks of conference play.

” Leave the overthinking to the offense. Our attitude was the reason we lost our last game by 30 and were down 14 in the second half today. We’re a talented enough team to be able to play naturally, and from now on we will just take this momentum with us and go with the flow.”

He rolled his eyes when asked about his wide receiver who came up limping in the third quarter after a collision with a cheerleader on the opposing sideline.

“He is a pussy and has been cut from the team. Real men play through pain.”

Southern Utah’s head coach gave the name “Burns” and refused to take off his sunglasses during the press conference. He smacked his lips while chewing gum and seemed happy with the initial effort from his defense.

“Our offense was great in the first half and put up a decent amount of points, so I was excited to see that.”

Coach “Burns” would like to see more discipline from his offensive unit going forward. After several fumbles and interceptions he was less than pleased with his quarterback and running back’s ability to control the ball.

“The goal is to limit turnovers. We had 5 turnovers, that is completely unacceptable.”

He was asked about a specific incident on the sideline where one of his linemen, #94, was shouting at coaches and teammates and had to be restrained. Coach “Burns” shrugged his shoulders when reporters wondered if that was a key part of the collapse down the stretch.

“I prefer his attitude over my running back dropping the ball constantly. The whole team needs to get it together or I will find players that can.”

San Diego is 5-1 and looks to stay in the top ten this week as they face Northern Arizona. Southern Utah drops to 1-3 and will face current #21 UC Davis in Week Seven.