High School Sports

Sun-Star’s Best Prep Football: Stone Ridge Christian’s Downey wins Prep of the Week poll

Stone Ridge Christian High senior receiver Kayden Downey delivered two touchdown catches to help propel the Knights to a 35-16 victory over Waterford.

The win helped SRC improve to 5-1 overall and 3-0 in the Southern League.

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

Downey earned the most votes for the Merced Sun-Star’s Prep Football Player of the Week. Gutierrez racked up 2,227 votes, which accounted for 55% of the 4,049 total votes.

Merced High senior Adarius Morales-Saetern finished second with 1,460 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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