3A Coastal 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 JJ Gulat Leads Dixon over West Carteret
Sadly, JJ Gulat posting his best game of the season wasn't enough to lead Dixon over West Carteret on Friday. Gulat rushed for 266 yards and four touchdowns while picking up 8.1 yards per carry.
Dixon's loss was their fifth straight on the road dating back to last season, which dropped their record down to 1-5. Gulat and Dixon will square off against Swansboro at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Gamescore: 64.00
Tareavion Mageo Has Career Rushing Day
Tareavion Mageo posted a new career-high in rushing yards on Friday. His rushing production has been exceptional recently as that marked his sixth straight game with at least 126 rushing yards dating back to last season.
White Oak pushed their record up to 5-1 with the win, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. They and West Carteret are set to duel on Friday.
Gamescore: 57.98
Tanner Payne Crosses Big Stat Threshold
Tanner Payne produced his most outstanding game to date while leading West Carteret to the win on Friday. Payne threw for 396 yards and five touchdowns while picking up 18.0 yards per attempt. Thanks to that strong showing, he's now averaging 3.2 passing touchdowns per game.
On the season, Payne has thrown 19 touchdowns while averaging 258.7 passing yards per game. He is looking even better than he did last year: after six games last season, he was only averaging six passing yards per game.
Gamescore: 51.00
Jasiah Jones Turns in Season-Best Effort
Jasiah Jones produced his most outstanding game to date while leading West Carteret to the win on Friday. Jones picked up 92 receiving yards and a touchdown, and also rushed for 69 yards and a touchdown, good enough to set a new career-high in rushing yards in the process. The bulk of those receiving yards came from one huge play: a catch that gained an incredible 72 yards.
Unfortunately for Dixon, this isn't the first big game they've seen from Jones. Jones picked up 149 receiving yards and two touchdowns the last time he and the Bulldogs duked it out back in September of 2023.
Gamescore: 35.87
Shondel Parker Makes It Two for Dixon
Another Dixon player making an appearance on this list is Shondel Parker. He rushed for 135 yards and two touchdowns on only eight carries.
For the season, Parker has run in 5 touchdowns while averaging 68.7 rushing yards per game.
Gamescore: 35.80
Other Notable Players
- Sean Cartwright: 217 yards receiving, 1 TD (Gamescore: 28.20)
- Jay Murray: 57 yards receiving, 3 TDs (Gamescore: 24.03)
- Jeremiyah Dixon: 21 total tackles (1.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 23.00)
- Kvontarious Smith: 1 sack, 11 total tackles, and 1 forced fumble (Gamescore: 21.35)
- Joshua Smith: 66 yards passing; 120 yards rushing (Gamescore: 17.50)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
