{"id":25668,"date":"2025-10-27T17:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25668\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:17:07","slug":"aztecs-kicker-gabe-plascencia-named-mountain-west-special-teams-player-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/25668\/","title":{"rendered":"Aztecs kicker Gabe Plascencia named Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego State kicker Gabe Plascencia has earned Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week after kicking three field goals in <a href=\"https:\/\/wpdash.medianewsgroup.com\/2025\/10\/25\/san-diego-state-dominates-fresno-state-from-start-to-finish-in-23-0-mountain-west-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SDSU\u2019s 23-0 win at Fresno State.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plascencia, a senior from Oakland, booted field goals of 42 and 50 yards to help the Aztecs to a 13-0 halftime lead. He added a 27-yarder to boost the lead to 16-0 three minutes into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>SDSU coach Sean Lewis called Plasecencia \u201cMr. Consistent\u201d following the Aztecs\u2019 fifth straight win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s consistently good, not occasionally great,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cHe approaches his work throughout the course of the week like it\u2019s game day, so that when the moment comes, the moment\u2019s never too big.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Plascencia is now 13-for-13 for the season in field goals and has made 25 straight dating back to last season. He broke the Mountain West record with his first field goal against Fresno State. He also has the ongoing SDSU record for consecutive field goals.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Plascencia is now 28-for-29 (96.5%) on field goals, making him the most accurate kicker in SDSU history. That honor had been held the past four decades by Chris O\u2019Brien (1984-85), who was 28-for-32 (87.5%).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s the epitome right now of his preparation, his hard work, meet the opportunities that are presented,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cHe\u2019s kind of just living in this moment of three more kicks that were all really, really important. We\u2019re lucky to have him. He\u2019s one that we probably don\u2019t talk about enough that was loyal to the soil when a lot of people came around and tried to poach him, steal him away.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego State kicker Gabe Plascencia has earned Mountain West Special Teams Player of the Week after kicking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1327,181,74,76,75,305,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-25668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-college-sports","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news","13":"tag-sdsu-aztecs","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668","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=25668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}