East Valley Top Player Performances of the Week
Congratulations to this week's top players! We're covering the best performances from Friday's football action (using all statistics entered as of the time of writing). Enjoy!
A Season-Best Effort from Aiden Mejia Leads Verdugo Hills over Grant
Aiden Mejia produced his most outstanding game to date while leading Verdugo Hills to the win on Friday. Mejia rushed for 209 yards and three touchdowns on only ten carries, and also picked up 49 receiving yards.
For the year, Mejia has averaged 37.1 receiving yards per game.
Gamescore: 56.87
North Hollywood Wins Eighth-Straight Thanks to Daylan Garcia
Daylan Garcia's big game helped extend North Hollywood's winning streak to eight on Friday. Garcia was unstoppable, rushing for 153 yards and a touchdown while picking up 9.0 yards per carry.
North Hollywood pushed their record up to 8-0 with the win, which was their fourth straight at home. Garcia and North Hollywood will square off against Monroe at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Gamescore: 40.30
Nate Arlauskas Has Career-Day on Friday
Nate Arlauskas was instrumental in extending North Hollywood's winning streak to eight on Friday. Arlauskas rushed for 101 yards on only eight carries, good enough to set a new career-high in rushing yards in the process. The bulk of those rushing yards came from one huge play: a run that gained an incredible 63 yards.
On the season, Arlauskas has averaged 24 passing yards per game. It gets even more impressive: after eight games last season, he was only averaging 17.38 rushing yards per game. This year he is averaging 37 rushing yards.
Gamescore: 31.30
While Samuel Villagrana delivered a dominant effort on Friday, a win just wasn't in the cards for Grant. Nobody could stop Villagrana as he picked up 98 receiving yards and a touchdown, and also rushed for 42 yards.
On the year, Villagrana has caught 5 touchdowns while averaging 43.2 receiving yards per game. He is looking even better than he did last year: after eight games last season, he was only averaging 19.38 receiving yards per game.
Gamescore: 26.73
Franklin Wilgus Makes It Two for Verdugo Hills
The second Verdugo Hills player making an appearance here is Franklin Wilgus, and for good reason. He wasn't messing around on Friday, picking up two sacks and making six total tackles (4.0 for loss). The matchup was his fifth straight with five or more total tackles.
This year, Wilgus has averaged 5.5 total tackles per game and for the season has 9.5 sacks.
Gamescore: 24.25
Other Notable Players
- Carson Rinka: 154 yards passing; 23 yards rushing, 1 TD (Gamescore: 23.57)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
