{"id":463888,"date":"2026-09-15T00:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463888\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T00:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T00:16:12","slug":"san-diegos-athletes-of-the-week-include-stars-in-flag-tackle-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/463888\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego&#8217;s Athletes of the Week include stars in flag, tackle football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Zac Benitez (Yary Photo)\" width=\"516\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-aow-0915-06.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10030553\" \/>Zac Benitez (Yary Photo)<br \/>\nZac Benitez<\/p>\n<p>Granite Hills<\/p>\n<p>Football<\/p>\n<p>Encouraged to run as well as pass, the senior led the Eagles to a 28-27 upset over No. 1 Mission Hills. He rushed for 54 yards and a pair of touchdowns and passed for 252 yards and two scores.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Eva Allen (Eva Allen)\" width=\"518\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-aow-0915-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10030554\" \/>Eva Allen (Eva Allen)<br \/>\nEva Allen<\/p>\n<p>Canyon Hills<\/p>\n<p>Field hockey<\/p>\n<p>The junior scored two goals to help lift the Rattlers to a 5-0 victory over Huntington Beach Edison in the championship of the Laurie Berger Tournament.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Madin Gardini (Madin Gardini)\" width=\"1230\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-aow-0915-02.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"10030555\" \/>Madin Gardini (Madin Gardini)<br \/>\nMadin Gardini<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Henry<\/p>\n<p>Football<\/p>\n<p>Completing 26 of 39 passes for 431 yards and five touchdowns and rushing for 60 yards and two more six-pointers, the 6-foot-1 senior led the Patriots past Otay Ranch, 57-33. Henry is now 4-0.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Miyah Holmes (Miyah Holmes)\" width=\"1179\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-aow-0915-03.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"10030556\" \/>Miyah Holmes (Miyah Holmes)<br \/>\nMiyah Holmes<\/p>\n<p>San Marcos<\/p>\n<p>Flag football<\/p>\n<p>A junior, Holmes countered Sacramento McClatchy\u2019s early score with a 3-yard TD run and added a 4-yard score in a 21-6 win in the MaxPreps Showdown. She added 3 sacks on defense.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"TJ Ibrahimi (TJ Ibrahimi)\" width=\"252\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-aow-0915-04.jpeg\" data-attachment-id=\"10030557\" \/>TJ Ibrahimi (TJ Ibrahimi)<br \/>\nTJ Ibrahimi<\/p>\n<p>El Cajon Valley<\/p>\n<p>Football<\/p>\n<p>Completing 10 of 16 passes for 297 yards and five touchdowns, the senior led the Braves past Orange Glen, 42-0, for their first win.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Tatum Stone (Tatum Stone)\" width=\"140\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/SUT-L-aow-0915-05.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"10030558\" \/>Tatum Stone (Tatum Stone)<br \/>\nTatum Stone<\/p>\n<p>La Jolla Country Day<\/p>\n<p>Volleyball<\/p>\n<p>Leading the Torreys to the Gold Division title of the La Jolla Coastal Classic, the junior outside hitter had 53 kills, 10 aces and 63 digs. Stone was named tournament MVP.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 STEVE BRAND<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zac Benitez (Yary Photo) Zac Benitez Granite Hills Football Encouraged to run as well as pass, the senior&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":463889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[2044,181,74,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-463888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-high-school-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463888","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=463888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}