The Southern California Football Association restructured

the conferences for the 2012 and 2013 seasons,

merging the National and Central Divisions to

form a larger three-conference National Division.

The change means the Cerritos College football

team will lose El Camino College as a conference opponent,

but it will play Moorpark and Pasadena City

Colleges for the next two seasons.

Running back Dominique Small talked about the

team preparing for the new lineup next season.

“For the most part, everybody’s working together

but all the mentality is going to change once the pads

are on.”

The other Cerritos College athletic teams participate

in the South Coast Conference.

Linebacker Josh Finau said about the new alignment,

“I think it’s going to be really exciting because it’s

a lot more competition and it gives us that motivation

that we need to work hard this off season and get back

into it.”

The Falcons own the all-time series against Pasadena

in football with a 19-14 record.

The team also won its last match-up against the

Lancers in 2007.

Cerritos College and Moorpark have two wins

apiece against each other. The Falcons won the first two

meetings, defeating the Raiders in the 1994 and 1996

Strawberry Bowls.

Moorpark has won the last two games in 2005 and

2006, averaging a combined 23.5 points a game.

The American Division will remain the same except

for the additions of three teams formerly in the now-defunct

Central Division and it will have two eight-team

conferences.

Running back Donald Livingston said that playing

new teams this next season will provide the Falcons

with more competition.

“We’ve been preparing and we’ve been talking about

it. Everybody’s working hard and doing what they have

to do to get better,” Livingston said.

Four teams will qualify for the Southern California

Playoffs.

The playoff teams will be the champions of each

National Division Conference and the next highestranked

team in the final California Community College

Athletic Association/California Community Colleges

Football Coaches Association Southern California poll

earning a berth.

The champions of each American Division conference

will also qualify for a division championship bowl

game.

Schedules for the upcoming season are expected to

be developed by late February.

In a statement on the SCFA’s website, Commissioner

Jim Sartoris said,” Geographical considerations and

maintaining competitive balance were key factors in the

placement process.”

Additional information taken from a previous

story written by Pete Moye’.