Former Palma quarterback Thomas Nunes has played in all seven games this season for the University of San Diego football team on the defensive side of the ball.<\/p>\n
Listed as a defensive back, the 6-foot-2 Nunes has recorded four solo and four assisted tackles for the Toreros, collecting at least one tackle in six of the team\u2019s seven games.<\/p>\n
Nunes threw for nearly 1,800 yards and 17 touchdowns, and rushed for 800 yards and 12 scores in guiding Palma to the county\u2019s first-ever state divisional football title in 2023.<\/p>\n
The sophomore, who finished among the Chieftains team leaders in interceptions as a senior, also played basketball and lacrosse at Palma.<\/p>\n
A pair of former Carmel standouts are teammates of Nunes\u2019 in sophomore offensive lineman Oscar Weigel and Herald All-County Offensive Player of the Year Ashton Rees, who is a backup defensive back.<\/p>\n
Monterey County has become a pipeline of late for the Toreros, as Palma products Emilo Martinez and Grant Sergent played there, along with current Carmel assistant coach Rashaan Ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Palma quarterback Thomas Nunes has played in all seven games this season for the University of San…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[5097,7,11026,11027,11028,1471,1327,11029,11030,11031,11032,181,11041,5434,10007,858,11033,266,11034,11035,11036,11037,74,76,75,11038,11039,11040,127],"class_list":["post-11984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-big-sur","tag-california","tag-carmel","tag-carmel-valley","tag-castroville","tag-central-coast","tag-college-sports","tag-del-rey-oaks","tag-gonzales","tag-greenfield","tag-king-city","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-sports","tag-marina","tag-monterey","tag-monterey-county","tag-moss-landing","tag-northern-california","tag-pacific-grove","tag-pebble-beach","tag-prunedale","tag-salinas","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sand-city","tag-seaside","tag-soledad","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}