It was clear from his opening 6-yard rush, sophomore running back Kendell Sparks was going to be a workhorse for the Warriors in their season opening victory over Pasadena City College, 37-20 last Friday.

“It’s all to the offensive line,” Sparks said about his 16 carries for 119 yards and two touchdowns performance. “Those guys opened up the holes for me, and I just found my way through the lanes.”

While Sparks was a highlight for the offense, the offense started out shaky as the Warriors rolled out a two quarterback system with Joseph Notch and Jorge Hernandez splitting time.

“Sometimes it’s tough to get momentum when we’re switching every other series,” Notch said. “But it’s good, we both can get the job done. We’re both capable and the team trusts us.”

Hernandez started the beginning of the game, Notch took over to start the second quarter.

“It’s cool,” Hernandez said of splitting time. “It has it’s ups and downs, but we got to get used to it and that’s it.”

While the offense was took a little to get moving the Warriors also had 20 penalties for a total of 197 yards.

“We were undisciplined several times,” coach John Featherstone said. “We need to correct that.”

Defensively the team will look to improve after facing a athletic group of players from PCC.

“We’re real young on the defensive side,” Featherstone said. “We’ve had a couple injuries too. We’re probably a little deeper on offense than on defense, but we have talented players.”

While the team has some adjustments that need to be made, they look forward to coming out of week one with a win.

“It feels great,” Featherstone said. “It’s a lot different when you win than win you lose, especially in football. It’s a man’s game.”

Eddie Garcia knocked in three field goals for the Warriors.

The team will look to cut down on the penalties when it plays its first game at Redondo Union High School Saturday at 4 p.m. against Ventura College.

“We got to lower the penalties,” Sparks said. “We had a lot (last week) so we got to lower them.”

Along with the two quarterback system, the Warriors will be throwing out a few running backs to shake things up.

“It’s actually competitive,” Sparks said. “Once they get in, I want to see what they do and if they do good I want to go in and do just as good. We push each other.”

The team will look to improve and get better this week and make adjustments from last week.

“It was the first game of the season, so we’ll look to improve,” Hernandez said.