{"id":160955,"date":"2026-02-19T07:51:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160955\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T07:51:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T07:51:52","slug":"flag-football-coconut-creek-upsets-no-14-st-thomas-aquinas-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160955\/","title":{"rendered":"FLAG FOOTBALL: Coconut Creek Upsets No. 14 St. Thomas Aquinas in Season Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COCONUT CREEK, Fla. \u2014 Laila Standifer picked off two passes and Nia Ennis caught a touchdown as Coconut Creek stunned No. 14 St. Thomas Aquinas (Fort Lauderdale) 12-7 Tuesday in the Cougars\u2019 season opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victory gives Coconut Creek a 1-0 record to start the year, while the Raiders fall to 0-1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mylie Carlson completed 10-of-21 passes for 110 yards and a touchdown for the Cougars. Ennis was her primary target, hauling in eight receptions for 88 yards and the score. Ma\u2019Kylah Menard added three catches for 14 yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zamara Clarke provided the other score, finishing with three carries for 10 yards including the touchdown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defensively, Standifer\u2019s two interceptions headlined a strong effort. Menard added a pick of her own, while Ennis and Precious Crowder each recorded a pass deflection, as did Kamille Sloan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Diddy-Ann Griffiths handled punt return duties, bringing back one return for 7 yards. Ennis averaged 28.0 yards on two punts, with a long of 34.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COCONUT CREEK, Fla. \u2014 Laila Standifer picked off two passes and Nia Ennis caught a touchdown as Coconut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[29051,589,249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-160955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-linkinbio","9":"tag-featured","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}