High School Sports

Sun-Star’s Best Prep Football: Buhach Colony’s Jaxson Percoats wins Prep of the Week poll

Buhach Colony junior running back Jaxson Percoats looks on at practice on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021.
Buhach Colony junior running back Jaxson Percoats looks on at practice on Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. Sjansen@mercedsun-star.com

Jaxson Percoats had a big week for the Buhach Colony High football team in a 44-7 win over El Capitan. Percoats rushed for three touchdowns, returned a kickoff for a score and intercepted a pass on defense.

The Buhach Colony junior won the Merced Sun-Star Prep of the Week Football Poll.

Percoats earned the most votes for the Merced Sun-Star’s Prep Football Player of the Week. The junior garnered 16,139 votes for 52% of the 31,132 total votes.

Le Grand High’s Carlos Castaneda finished second with 9,104 votes.

Shawn Jansen
Merced Sun-Star
Sports writer Shawn Jansen has been covering Merced area sports for 20 years. He came to Merced from Suisun City and is a graduate of San Diego State University. Prior to the Sun-Star, Shawn worked at the Daily Republic in Fairfield.
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