{"id":447881,"date":"2026-08-30T07:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447881\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T07:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T07:26:10","slug":"junior-college-football-season-kicks-off-fresno-city-reedley-open-with-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/447881\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior college football season kicks off; Fresno City, Reedley open with wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKLIN, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno City College outlasted Shasta College in its first game under new head coach Josh Brown on Saturday, Aug. 29 &#8211; but it came down to the final moments.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore quarterback Christian English scored a 1-yard touchdown with 8 seconds remaining in the game for the winning score, 22-18.<\/p>\n<p>English also scored on a 47-yard touchdown run in the 3rd quarter when the Rams trailed, 18-9.<\/p>\n<p>Reedley College won its opener 9-6 over De Anza, powered by a touchdown dive by its own sophomore QB Jaeden Meeks.<\/p>\n<p>And College of the Sequoias was defeated 49-7 by reigning State champion and No. 1-ranked San Mateo, which was led by 4 touchdowns (3 rushing, 1 receiving) from Roosevelt HS grad Dominick Gonzalez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROCKLIN, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno City College outlasted Shasta College in its first game under new head coach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-447881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447881","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=447881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}