High School Sports

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

El Capitan High School junior Braylen Centeno set a school record for longest touchdown with a 99-yard rushing touchdown against Buhach Colony.

Centeno finished with 156 rushing yards and two touchdowns in a 49-14 win by the Gauchos.

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

Centeno earned the most votes for the Merced Sun-Star’s Prep Football Player of the Week. Centeno garnered 1,718 votes, which accounted for 65% of the total of 2,628 votes.

Le Grand High School senior running back Alexis Granados finished second with 29% of the 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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