Running its win streak to seven games, the Cal Lutheran football team clinched at least a share of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title with a 45-3 win at La Verne Saturday. CLU (7-1, 5-0) can claim the title outright, and earn its first NCAA Division III playoff berth, with a win next Saturday against Redlands.
On a day when the Kingsmen were able to clear their bench, Antoine Adams ran for three touchdowns, Bobby Rodrigues had one, and Jericho Toilolo -- the first of five CLU quarterbacks -- threw for a score. But the biggest play was Derek Wilson's 89-yard kickoff return, erasing a short-lived 3-0 La Verne lead.
The Leopards are now 0-8, 0-6.

*--Corrects to three touchdowns for Adams, per official stats (I had credited one to Derek Martinez.)