{"id":439380,"date":"2026-08-21T13:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:06:08","slug":"prep-talk-cleveland-turns-to-its-nigerian-duo-in-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/439380\/","title":{"rendered":"Prep talk: Cleveland turns to its Nigerian duo in football"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cleveland High football coach Mario Guzman loves the Nigerian connection of Oluwafemi Okelola and Moyosoreoluwa Odebunmi, both running backs.<\/p>\n<p>Spelling their names might be the biggest challenge.<\/p>\n<p>They should be major offensive contributors, joining quarterback Domenik Fuentes to fuel the Cavaliers\u2019 attack.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Odebunmi rushed for 1,139 yards and 11 touchdowns. Okelola had 111 yards rushing and made 83 tackles and had two interceptions on defense.<\/p>\n<p>The Cavaliers open their season on Friday against Narbonne.<\/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":"Cleveland High football coach Mario Guzman loves the Nigerian connection of Oluwafemi Okelola and Moyosoreoluwa Odebunmi, both running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":439381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[1794,58695,13507,11155,949,2424,19830,48,52,51,3376,47,50,49,174323,88058,174324,174322,6310,780,1539],"class_list":["post-439380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-attack","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-defense","tag-football","tag-friday","tag-interception","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-season","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-moyosoreoluwa-odebunmi","tag-narbonne","tag-nigerian-duo","tag-oluwafemi-okelola","tag-prep-talk","tag-touchdown","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439380","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=439380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}