Palomar Comets open 2025 football season with a 32-21 defeat of Ventura
By David A. Willauer-Contributing Writer-Palomar College-San Marcos, CA-Saturday, August 30, 2025: The Comets of Palomar opened up the football season as they were defeated by the Pirates of Ventura College by a 32-21 score.
The Comets trailed 6-0 on 2 field goals of 27 and 24 yards by Bohdie Ing as they scored 2 touchdowns 1 by Fallbrook High's Chris Bausch rushed for 183 yards on the ground along with a 52 yarder followed by K J Cheatham's pass of 23 yards and led 14-6.
Ventura came back on touchdown runs of 1 yard by Braeson Leon and Koen Glover for the 18-14 Pirate lead.
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KJ Chatham threw for 218 yards connected to teammate Princeton Anderson on a 25 yarder put the Comets 21-18.
The Pirates took the lead for good as Braeson Leon threw a 15 yard pass to teammate Elijah Davis followed by a Devin Tate's 24 yard run to make the final score 32-21 in favor of Ventura College.
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Former Fallbrook High Chris Bausch on his performance for Palomar: "Practice went well for us and our offensive line held up very well." "I can't be any more proud for our squad." "On the 52 yard touchdown that I scored the tight end did a good job at blocking the linebacker for me to go down the field from there I was confident we had a chance to win until the clock had to strike zero/" "At the end our squad kept falling apart a little bit we had lots of mistakes in high stress situations for us to fix up next week when preparing for East LA College we have to watch the films then make adjustments in practice."
Joe Earley Palomar Comets Head Football Coach: "Chris Bausch is a good running back he had the holes in the creases and made keys plays this is what football is all about its production we held the ball inside the 10 and to hold them to a field goal when we moved the ball on offense we had some untimely penalties it is a work in progress we were resiliant and responded,they made more plays then we did which is the difference in the score."
