BERKELEY – After four-and-a-half highly anticipated months, a new era of California football began on Saturday inside California Memorial Stadium.

First-year Travers Family Head Football Coach Tosh Lupoi, two NFL-experienced coordinators, a highly-touted transfer portal class and one of the top freshmen quarterbacks in the country a year ago in Jaron-Keawe Sagapolutele were on display in Berkeley for Cal's Spring Game.

Split between Team Gold and Team Blue, along with Cal football legends Andre Carter, Marshawn Lynch, General Manager Ron Rivera and Jeff Tedford serving as coaching ambassadors, Team Gold came away with a 21-15 victory.

Less than five minutes into the game, Marquis Groves-Killebrew, a transfer defensive back from Arizona, made a statement for the Gold Team with a 95-yard interception return for a touchdown to give his squad a 7-0 lead.

With just over six minutes remaining in the second quarter, the Gold Team extended its lead to 14-0 when the offense, led by Dominic Ingrassia, marched down to the Blue Team's 37-yard line before Ingrassia ran around the right side of the defense for 37-yard score and the game's second-longest play of the day. Ingrassia fooled everyone when he scrambled 37 yards for a touchdown..

Then, four minutes into the second half, another transfer signee Adam Mohammed formerly of Washington, ran for 58 yards and to the two-yard line and then punched it on the next play to extend the Gold team's lead to 21-0.

The Blue Team did everything possible to make it close in the fourth quarter. Colorado State transfer quarterback Jackson Brousseau found Oregon transfer wide receiver Cooper Perry for a 34-yard touchdown with just under seven minutes left in the game to make it 21-7. Then, with just four seconds remaining, Sagapolutele found three-time All-ACC long jumper and wide receiver Trevor Rogers for a 12-yard touchdown to make it 21-13.

The Blue Team decided to go for two, but with a special twist. Both teams welcomed the younger brother of linebacker B.J. Jones, a participant in the program's Golden Buddies camp, to the field to wrap up the Spring Game with a successful two-point conversion.