High School Sports

Sun-Star’s Best Prep Football: El Capitan’s Diego Ultreras wins Prep of the Week poll

High school football

The El Capitan High School football team started the season with a win for the first time in school history last week with a 12-7 victory over Delhi.

Helping lead the way was junior receiver Diego Ultreras, who caught six passes for 111 yards.

Ultreras won the Merced Sun-Star Prep of the Week Football Poll.

This week’s poll was a close battle between El Capitan and Merced high school fans.

Ulteras earned the most votes for the Merced Sun-Star’s Prep Football Player of the Week. The junior garnered 58,360 votes for 50% of the 117,063 total votes.

Merced running back Adarias Morales-Saetern finished second with 53,824 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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