3A Metro West 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!
Parker Schmitz Goes Supernova in Paradise Honors Win
Starting off the list is Paradise Honors's Parker Schmitz, who we judged to be the best player in the league this week. Schmitz threw for 274 yards and five touchdowns on perfect 14-for-14 passing, and also rushed for 50 yards and a touchdown.
Paradise Honors pushed their record up to 3-4 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. Schmitz's next game is against Valley Christian on Friday, where he'll look to repeat that solid performance.
Gamescore: 56.27
A Season-Best Effort from Aiden Lee Leads Paradise Honors over Odyssey Institute
On Friday, Paradise Honors got the W thanks in part to Aiden Lee playing the best football he has all season. Lee rushed for 91 yards and two touchdowns on only nine carries, good enough to set a new career-high in rushing yards in the process. His longest rush was for an impressive 52 yards, which helps to explain his lofty yards per carry total.
This year, Lee has run in 3 touchdowns while averaging 19 rushing yards per game.
Gamescore: 26.60
Brown Came Up Big in Paradise Honors' 61-0 Win
Another Paradise Honors player making an appearance on this list is Preston Brown. He picked up 124 receiving yards and two touchdowns.
This year, Brown has caught 8 touchdowns while averaging 107.1 receiving yards per game. He's made a big improvement compared to last season: at this point last year, he was only averaging 6.57 receiving yards per game.
Gamescore: 24.73
Kenyon Rosenthal's Big Game Leads ALA - West Foothills over Yuma
Kenyon Rosenthal's big game helped extend ALA - West Foothills's winning streak to seven on Friday. Rosenthal was dynamite, rushing for 95 yards and a touchdown on only seven carries. The dominant performance gave him a new career-high in rushing yards.
ALA - West Foothills' win was their fifth straight on the road dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 7-0. Rosenthal and ALA - West Foothills will square off against Sabino at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Gamescore: 23.68
ALA - West Foothills Wins Seventh-Straight Thanks to Amr Hassan
Amr Hassan's big game helped extend ALA - West Foothills's winning streak to seven on Friday. Nobody could stop Hassan as he picked up 15 receiving yards and a touchdown.
On the year, Hassan has caught those 1 touchdown while averaging 19.6 receiving yards per game.
Gamescore: 21.83
Other Notable Players
- Cougar Holt: 89 yards receiving, 2 TDs (Gamescore: 21.40)
- Hunter Cotten: 1 sack and 10 total tackles (2.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 19.25)
- Matthew Lee: 1 sack and 8 total tackles (1.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 17.00)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
