High School Sports

Sun-Star’s Best Prep Football: Golden Valley’s Eleazar Garza wins Prep of the Week poll

Vote for the Sun-Star Prep Football Player of the Week.
Vote for the Sun-Star Prep Football Player of the Week.

Golden Valley quarterback Eleazar Garza had a big game for the Cougars in a loss to Patterson. Garza threw three touchdowns and ran for two other scores.

The Golden Valley junior won the Merced Sun-Star Prep of the Week Football Poll.

Garza earned the most votes for the Merced Sun-Star’s Prep Football Player of the Week. The junior garnered 20,712 votes for 50% of the 41,297 total votes.

Hilmar quarterback Jason Pimentel finished second with 10,708 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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