5A Sonoran 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!
Flowing Wells Gets a Boost from Simmons in 44-20 Win
Starting off the list is Flowing Wells's Jayden Simmons, who we judged to be the best player in the league this week. Simmons rushed for 100 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries. His longest rush was for an impressive 65 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total.
Maricopa had to have seen this coming; the last time they saw Simmons it was a similar story. When Simmons last faced the Rams back in November of 2023, he rushed for 106 yards and a touchdown on only ten carries.
Gamescore: 34.05
A Season-Best Effort from Nicholas Horrocks Leads Mountain View over Ironwood Ridge
Mountain View was led to victory by Nicholas Horrocks, who turned in his biggest game of the season on Friday. Horrocks rushed for 153 yards and two touchdowns. The effort marked the most rushing yards he has had since back in November of 2023. Mountain View is 5-1 when Horrocks posts two or more rushing touchdowns, but 1-3 otherwise.
Ironwood Ridge's probably not too fond of Horrocks given he always seems to get the better of them. When Horrocks last faced the Nighthawks back in November of 2023, he rushed for 170 yards and a touchdown while picking up 8.5 yards per carry.
Gamescore: 33.33
Alfredo Guzman Makes It Two for Flowing Wells
The second Flowing Wells player making an appearance here is Alfredo Guzman, and for good reason. He rushed for 71 yards and two touchdowns.
For the season, Guzman has run in 8 touchdowns while averaging 54 rushing yards per game. He's made a big improvement compared to last season: at this point last year, he had four rushing touchdowns.
Gamescore: 31.55
Big Game from Mesa As Tucson High Magnet School Won 62-0
Derek Mesa's big game helped extend Tucson High Magnet School's winning streak to four on Friday. Mesa did his part (and then some), throwing for 158 yards and four touchdowns while completing 87.5% of his passes for the 'W'.
Tucson High Magnet School pushed their record up to 8-2 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. Mesa and Tucson High Magnet School will look to defend their home field on Friday against Cienega at 7:00 p.m.
Gamescore: 29.73
Diego Gomez Makes It Two for Mountain View
Another Mountain View player making an appearance on this list is Diego Gomez. He picked up 42 receiving yards, and also rushed for 30 yards.
For the season, Gomez has averaged 18.8 receiving yards per game.
Gamescore: 22.82
Other Notable Players
- Grant Dooling: 91 yards receiving; 1 TD rushing (Gamescore: 19.00)
- David Baba: 12 total tackles (3.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 18.75)
- Damien Wallace: 140 yards passing; 26 yards rushing, 1 TD (Gamescore: 17.93)
- Jaiden Martinez: 176 yards passing; 117 yards rushing (Gamescore: 17.83)
- Tyler Friedenberg: 63 yards rushing, 1 TD (Gamescore: 17.70)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
