{"id":373815,"date":"2026-08-17T17:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373815\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T17:08:10","slug":"mariner-ida-baker-and-island-coast-win-preseason-football-contests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/373815\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariner, Ida Baker and Island Coast win preseason football contests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRESEASON FOOTBALL<\/p>\n<p>Mariner 32, Cypress Lake 8:\u00a0Kick returner Tondrick Mack scored three special-teams touchdowns \u2014 all in the second quarter. Mack ran a kickoff back for 75 yards, a punt for 60 yards and a rare free kick for 74 yards. Wenstan Penermon added a 70-yard TD run. The Tritons\u2019 defense didn\u2019t allow a point, with Cypress Lake scoring on a fumble return.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ida Baker 48, Parkridge Christian 7:\u00a0Ida Baker dominated the visitors from Coral Springs, led by Dominic Pena\u2019s four rushing touchdowns. Sebastian Hubbard ran for two scores and Mason Adams added another ground\u00a0TD. Aspen\u00a0Turner passed to Jimmy Hynes for the Bulldogs\u2019 other touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Island Coast 16, Gateway 13:\u00a0Jackson Carradona\u00a0and Dontavian Wilson scored touchdowns for the Gators, who held off a late Gateway rally to earn the victory. Island Coast led 16-6 going into the\u00a0fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>South Fort\u00a0Myers 47, Cape Coral 35:\u00a0The Seahawks\u2019 passing attack couldn\u2019t keep pace with the Wolfpack\u2019s ground game. Derek Hooker passed for two touchdowns for Cape Coral. Soldier Morse caught two TD passes, JD Irons had two scoring\u00a0runs and TJ Schley added a touchdown reception for the Seahawks. South quarterback Jayden Henderson passed for two touchdowns and ran for\u00a0two more.<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Rogers 24, North Fort Myers 8:\u00a0North struggled\u00a0against the Patriots\u2019 defense.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Aubrey Rogers quarterback Harrison Lyons passed for two touchdowns and a two-point conversion to lead the winners.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRESEASON FOOTBALL Mariner 32, Cypress Lake 8:\u00a0Kick returner Tondrick Mack scored three special-teams touchdowns \u2014 all in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-373815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373815","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=373815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}