Cal plays tournament host UCLA in the final game of the Storer Classic on Sunday, and there’s little expectation that it will be anything but a clear Bears victory.

Cal went 3-0 on Saturday, beating UC Santa Cruz 51-0, UC Davis 54-0, and UC Diego 91-7.

Cal did this using 15 completely different lineups — a luxury few teams in the tournament have — and as a result the Bears’ best will not have been overworked come Sunday’s game.

Several freshmen and newer players showed just why Cal wanted them there. Football crossover Justin Dunn scored three tries in the opener against UCSC while Damon Wiley, a sophomore prop, scored two. Against UCSD, two freshmen scored 45 of Cal’s 91 points. Eton College (Windsor, UK) product Marcus Shankland scored five tries and Granite Bay flyhallf Desi Streater kicked 10 conversions.

The lone try scored against the blue and gold on Saturday came in the 30th minute of the last match of the afternoon, when UC San Diego's Matt Vanni got through the defense and Jonathan Reyes converted.

"It felt like a good first day," said Cal's Jack Manzo (Xavier HS, NYC), a freshman front-rower. "It was certainly great to get my first chance to represent these colors and this university."

Streater added: "Everyone tried to know their responsibilities and execute, and we seemed to take it on board to improve throughout the day."

Meanwhile, the rest of the tournament was chasing Cal — and not getting too close. UCLA struggled a little at its home tournament, edging UC Santa Cruz 26-19 and losing to UC Davis 19-17.

Davis played its second team against UC San Diego and lost, but head coach Andy Malpass wasn’t too bent out of shape over that one. He did, however, have a very direct assessment of his team’s shutout loss to Cal.

“We were too slow, too small, and not fit enough, and then gave what ball we had right back to them,” Malpass said. 

Even against UCLA, a game the Aggies won, UC Davis “played poorly,” according to its coach. 

“We really just won it on character,” Malpass said.

Down 17-12 against UCLA with the game about to end, Davis No. 8 Dom Burke picked up and thundered over the line to tie the game. Tarik Siniora then slotted the conversion to win that game. Davis played Cal and UCLA in back-to-back games and did well to get one win out of that.

UC Davis plays UC Santa Cruz in the other Sunday game.