{"id":17798,"date":"2025-10-22T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17798\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T13:40:11","slug":"prep-talk-south-gate-qbmichael-gonzalez-is-making-an-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/17798\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: South Gate QBMichael Gonzalez is making an impact"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you want to see a player whose impact is growing, go watch South Gate junior quarterback Michael Gonzalez. He\u2019s listed as 5 feet 9 on the Rams\u2019 roster, but what an arm he has and he can run, too.<\/p>\n<p>He passed for 273 yards last week in a loss to Garfield. He has passed for 1,999 yards and 22 touchdowns in eight games. He\u2019s also scored six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Receiver Nicholas Fonseca, another junior, has 52 receptions for 1,027 yards and 10 touchdowns. He was the City Section Division II player of the year last season.<\/p>\n<p>South Gate is 5-3, with the duo leading the way. The Rams\u2019 passing attack could set them apart for the Division I playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you want to see a player whose impact is growing, go watch South Gate junior quarterback Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[15217,14545,15216,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,3289,15214,6310,10947,15212,15215,15211,780,8843,1539,15213],"class_list":["post-17798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-high-school-sport","tag-impact","tag-junior","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-loss","tag-positive-happening","tag-prep-talk","tag-rams","tag-receiver-nicholas-fonseca","tag-reception","tag-south-gate-qbmichael-gonzalez","tag-touchdown","tag-way","tag-yard","tag-year-last-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798","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=17798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}