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After a roller coaster ride of a season in 2010, this year’s PCC football team continued to struggle but began working on its game armed with a new head coach in Fred Fimbres.

The Lancers showed promise at the beginning of their season, defeating Glendale at home 49-28 early in September. They lost their next game but routed L.A. Valley in mid-September, 39-9.

The rest of the season was not as much of a cakewalk and PCC lost six of its next seven games, ending the season with an overall record of 3-7 and 1-4 in conference play.

“Although the end result was that we lost games more than we won, if you look at the season on the whole and make some comparisons from an educated perspective [one] can see that we made progress,” Fimbres said in an interview on Wednesday.

On average, the Lancers scored 24 points per game during the season while their opponents scored 36.6 and PCC ran for 1,317 yards while their opponents ran for 2,102.

PCC led its opponents for the most part in passing though, accumulating an average of 281.6 yards per game to the opponents’ 198.7.

Fimbres attributes many of the seasons’ problems to the Lancers’ depth and health issues.

“We want to work on our physical development and preparation so that we can help avoid some injuries that we had,” Fimbres said. “We did have some freak injuries which are going to happen in the game of football, but we [also] had some injuries that we can relate either to youth or new players.”

The Lancers are currently down to their fourth-string quarterback.

There are positives to be seen, especially since the new coaching staff implemented a different attitude and environment.

Despite the losing record as a team, individuals got a chance to shine when the Southern California Football Association recognized six standout players for the All-National Southern Conference Team.

“It’s a credit to them for their hard work and for being able to do what [the coaching staff] asks them to do and perform at a high level,” Fimbres said. “It’s really an honor because those awards are voted by the other conference coaches…so it’s nice for those guys to know and have an understanding that people thought that they played well even though the team wasn’t as successful as we would have liked it to have been.

“I think it’s something we can point to as we develop a competitive [and] championship caliber program here,” he concluded. “It’s small things that we can point to which, if we put enough of those things together, the big picture will be that we will be very successful.”

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