1st MCAL win since 2010 for San Rafael

There was no Gatorade bath Saturday afternoon after the football team at San Rafael broke a 45-game Marin County Athletic League losing streak with a 28-8 win at Novato.

San Rafael first-year coach Mark Lubamersky made sure.

“I emptied all the coolers,” Lubamersky said by phone Saturday night. “I missed some water bottles so they got me pretty good.”

The Bulldogs, who hadn’t won a league game since 2010 and were 6-62 from 2011-17, were pretty good again for a third time this season. Good enough to improve to 3-3.

Junior quarterback Jack Miller ran for two touchdowns and completed a scoring pass to Jack Pocock. Senior running back Ronnie Reyes also ran for a score.

Lubamersky, a longtime coach in the region and 1980 graduate of Redwood-Larkspur, has two sons in the program, including 6-foot-3, 270-pound junior tackle Aidan. Lubamersky has coached many of the Bulldogs on the youth teams.

The Bulldogs broke an overall 27-game losing streak with a 28-0 win at Richmond on Sept. 7. Lubamersky didn’t do a lot of celebrating then either. He’s no

killjoy, but he’s also a realist.

“I’m a football coach and I know when we should win,” he said. “I felt like we were the better team against Richmond, and I thought the same going in Saturday. I figured at this point we’d be 3-3 or even 4-2.

“I understand from a historical significance, it’s a big deal. And I’m so happy for the kids, the parents, the San Rafael community. This was our first MCAL win in a long time. But I expect us to win next week and more in the coming weeks.”

Lubamersky is the son of the late Al Lubamersky and nephew of Jim Ruane, who coached Washington football teams to Turkey Day titles. He’s also an 18-year leadership teacher at rival Terra Linda-San Rafael.

“I root for Terra Linda except for one week a year,” he said.

#6 Serra 43, Bellarmine 0: Luke Bottari completed 11 of 13 passes for 185 yards and three

touchdowns and rushed for a score for host Serra (3-2, 2-0 West Catholic Athletic League), which raced to a 20-0 first-quarter lead and never looked back. Nate Sanchez caught two TD passes and Malakai Rango and Terence Loville one each. Patrick Simon completed his only pass, a 53-yarder to Loville to open the scoring. Bellarmine (2-3, 1-1) managed just 117 total yards.

#18 Mitty 34, Riordan 6: At CCSF, Shamir Bey threw three touchdown passes before an undisclosed injury kept him out of the game in the second half. By then, the Monarchs (3-2, 1-1 WCAL) led 26-0. Bey threw TD passes to Reymello Murphy (7 yards), James Thomas (68) and Joseph Vaughn (15) before Thomas broke loose on a 40yard TD run and teammate Jonah Advincula added a pick-6. Adham Abdelghani threw a 19-yard TD pass to Roberto Alas

for Riordan (1-4, 0-2).

Galileo 44, Burton 8: Michael Duran rambled 61 yards for a touchdown on the Lions’ first play from scrimmage, setting the tone for their decisive road win. Yarvell Smith added 120 yards rushing and a touchdown, and Ronald Fox threw for two scores and ran for another for Galileo (5-1, 1-0 in Academic Athletic Association). Alfonzo Smith completed an 18-yard TD pass to Cary Kuang for Burton (4-1, 1-1).

Balboa 46, Lowell 0: AJ Velasquez rushed for 120 yards and three touchdowns, Caden Deguzman rushed for two scores and middle linebacker Xavier Haro recorded 12 tackles and forced a fumble as the host Buccaneers (3-1, 1-0 AAA) beat the Cardinals (0-3, 0-1).

MaxPreps senior writer Mitch Stephens covers high school sports for The San Francisco Chronicle.