AHC EARNS SECOND-CONSECUTIVE INVITATION TO PRODUCERS DAIRY BOWL IN FRESNO

SANTA MARIA— Coach Kris Dutra's Allan Hancock College football team has earned a second-consecutive invitation to the Producers Dairy Bowl in Fresno and will meet Reedley College on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. in historic Radcliffe Stadium.

The game will be broadcast live on the Central Coast beginning with the Bulldog pre-game show at 2:30 p.m. KUHL (AM 1400 in Santa Maria) and KTME (AM 1410 in Lompoc) will carry the broadcast, with Brad Memberto and Irvin Kiger mikeside.

Hancock ended its' 2004 regular season with a resounding 52-19 win over visiting Santa Barbara City College to finish with an overall win-loss record of 6-4. The Bulldogs, ranked No. 13 in the final regular-season state Southern Region poll, finished third behind College of the Canyons and Moorpark in the Western State Conference North Division. Reedley, which also finished at 6-4, wound up in a three-way tie for first place with Fresno City College and Delta College of Stockton in the rugged Central Valley Conference. The Tigers are ranked No. 9 in the state's final Northern Region poll.

The game will mark AHC's 11th California Community College bowl game appearance since 1994 and 13th of all time. AHC is 4-8 all-time in bowl game appearances. It is also the third Bulldog bowl-game appearance in the four-year tenure of Head Coach Kris Dutra, who directed AHC to the Cerritos Strawberry Bowl in 2001 and the Producers' Dairy Bowl last year.

Hancock last played Reedley in a home and home series in 1999 and 2000, winning both games by respective scores of 38-34 and 29-19.

Additional Western State Conference Northern Division bowl-bound teams are division champion College of the Canyons (10-0) who will participate in the Southern California playoffs, facing El Camino (8-2) in the Western State Bowl; Moorpark (6-4) vs. Desert (6-4) in the U.S. Bank Beach Bowl; and Bakersfield (7-3) hosting Fullerton (6-4) in the Golden Empire Bowl.

ALLAN HANCOCK COLLEGE ALL-TIME BOWL-GAME APPEARANCES 1960 – Orange Show Bowl: AHC 12, Riverside 7 1961 – Prune Bowl: San Mateo 6, AHC 0 1994 – K-Swiss Bowl: Fullerton 38, AHC 33 1995 – Producers Dairy Bowl: AHC 34, Kings River 14 1996 – No Fear Bowl: L.A. Valley 37, AHC 25 1997 – Simple Green Orange Co. Bowl: Long Beach 13, AHC 7 1998 – Cerritos Pontiac/GMC Strawberry Bowl: Cerritos 35, AHC 21 1999 – WSC Bowl: AHC 20, Ventura 13 1999 – State Final at Producers Dairy Bowl: San Francisco CC 22, AHC 14 2000 – WSC Bowl: AHC 24, College of the Canyons 21 2001 – Citrus-Strawberry Bowl: Citrus 37, AHC 21 2003 – Producers Dairy Bowl: Fresno CC 44, AHC 23