3A Region 1 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!
Juan Mejia Delivers Best Performance of Season
Johnson County was led to victory by Juan Mejia, who turned in his biggest game of the season on Friday. Mejia wasn't messing around, rushing for 205 yards and five touchdowns while picking up 12.8 yards per carry. The match was his seventh straight with two or more rushing touchdowns dating back to last season.
Chuckey-Doak's probably not too fond of Mejia given he always seems to get the better of them. Mejia rushed for 160 yards the last time he and the Black Knights duked it out back in October of 2023.
Gamescore: 67.47
Kolby Jones Has Career Rushing Day
Unicoi County was led to victory by Kolby Jones, who turned in his biggest game of the season on Friday. Jones rushed for 110 yards and four touchdowns on only ten carries, and also threw for 123 yards and a touchdown, good enough to set a new career-high in rushing yards in the process.
If history really does repeat itself, Jones might just drop another big game when he faces off against Claiborne on Friday. When Jones last faced the Bulldogs back in October of 2023, he threw for 319 yards and three touchdowns while completing 73% of his passes.
Gamescore: 49.30
Winning always takes teamwork, but on Friday Brayden Maples stepped things up a notch to give Gatlinburg-Pittman the 'W'. Nobody could stop Maples as he made a tackle.
Gatlinburg-Pittman is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-2 record this season. Maples and Gatlinburg-Pittman will head out to square off against Johnson County at 7:00 p.m. on Friday.
Gamescore: 40.73
Bransan Salts Sets Career High in Rushing Yards
Bransan Salts posted a new career-high in rushing yards on Friday. He rushed for 184 yards and a touchdown while picking up 8.8 yards per carry.
This season, Salts has run in 5 touchdowns while averaging 118.5 rushing yards per game. He is looking even better than he did last year: after six games last season, he was only averaging 14.83 rushing yards per game.
Gamescore: 36.28
Other Notable Players
- Brady Simmons: 1 sack and 12 total tackles (2.0 for loss) (Gamescore: 20.73)
- John Keohane: 152 yards passing (Gamescore: 20.73)
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
