Mt. SAC fans rattle the Falcons

If it wasn't enough that the Cerritos College women's basketball team had a big task ahead facing top seeded and defending state champion Mt. San Antonio, the Falcons had to go on the road and face the Mounties' unfamiliar gym and its rowdy fans.

The Falcons walked into a gym full of state championship banners and an opposing bench holding twice as many players as them.

From the start of the game, the biggest fan club in the gym and the main contributors to the distruption of Cerritos' game, the Mounties football players, arrived shirtless with red and black paint covering them from the waist up to their faces.

It was so fitting for the Mounties football players, who were upset by the Cerritos football team last season in triple overtime, to take their wrath out on a different Cerritos team.

The football team's rowdiness began to immediately take effect in the first half.

After an air-ball from Cerritos forward Mercedes Taylor, the football players did not let her forget about it as they chanted "air-ball" the rest of the game every time Taylor had possession of the ball.

On one occasion, after Taylor missed a shot, she ran back down the court while giving the middle finger to the football team.

Mission accomplished.

The football team had successfully made it into Taylor's head and ultimately affected the team captain's level of performance.

Toward the end of the game, Taylor was nodding her head to a heckle given by one of the men and signaling a sarcastic thumbs-up in between a set of free-throws.

Cerritos looked uncomfortable from the start and did not look like the same team that barely lost to the Mounties back in January at Cerritos.

Mt. SAC proved that playing at home makes a difference especially in post-season games.