After a dramatic overtime victory over Canyon Hills, Mission Bay suffered its worst loss of the season at the hands of Point Loma, 53-14, on Friday, Oct. 21.

The game was a tale of two halves with both teams exchanging scores in the first and second quarters as the Bucs went into halftime down 21-14. The second half was a different story as the visitors’ outscored Mission Bay 32-0, which included a 26-point outburst in the third quarter to put the game away.

“I feel like we came out pretty hot and we executed what we wanted to in the begging but we just kind of ran out of gas as the game went along,” said Mission Bay quarterback Ethan Silber. “We started to go down with injuries as the game went along. It was guys filling in slots that they’re not used to.”

Silber finished 18 of 31 for 238 yards and two touchdowns along with 40 yards rushing. As for his receivers, Jonah Preist finished with three receptions for 43 yards and a touchdown, David Maier had two receptions for 30 yards and a touchdown, Jack Ryan had four receptions for 66 yards, Gavin Marzion had one reception for 34 yards, and Patrick Leahy pitched in with two receptions for 18 yards.

So far this season Silber has thrown for 1,908 yards with 25 passing touchdowns along with 348 rushing yards.

The Bucs will try to bounce back this Friday, Oct. 28, and improve to 7-3 when they take on Morse High School in the regular season finale at home. Morse comes in with a 5-4 record but has lost back-to-back games after starting the season winning four of its first five matches.

“They got a lot of good athletes,” Silber added. “I expect them to try and throw the ball on us and try to play a lot of man coverage. We’re just going to do what we do, we’re probably going to add a couple of more plays in throughout the week that Morse hasn’t seen yet and just looking for other guys to step up.”