{"id":377619,"date":"2026-08-21T16:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377619\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:44:10","slug":"north-downs-island-coast-in-football-opener-41-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/377619\/","title":{"rendered":"North downs Island Coast in football opener, 41-6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>FOOTBALL<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers 41, Island Coast 6:\u00a0The Gators scored first, then the Red Knights scored the rest. North quarterback Ryan Johnson completed his first nine passes, including a 25-yard touchdown to Jerry Kemp. Johnson also connected with Adrian Rivera Spears (11 yards) and Wyatt Sabin (25 yards) for scores. Jadarian Brown scored two rushing touchdowns and Aiden Lopez also scored. For Island\u00a0Coast, Dontavian Wilson scored on a 1-yard quarterback keeper. North has won its last nine matchups with Island Coast.<\/p>\n<p>VOLLEYBALL<\/p>\n<p>Palmetto Ridge 3, Ida Baker 1: Palmetto Ridge defeated the\u00a0Bulldogs (0-2) by scores of 25-20, 25-20, 18-25, 25-22.<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers 3, Island Coast 0:\u00a0North (2-0) rolled to victory, 25-5, 25-13, 25-9. Sydnie Weaver had nine kills for the Red Knights. The Gators slipped to 0-2.<\/p>\n<p>Estero 3, Oasis 1:\u00a0In a match tighter than the score indicates, the Sharks lost in four sets, 25-23, 26-24, 21-25, 25-18.<\/p>\n<p>BOYS GOLF<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers d. Bonita Springs (forfeit; 6 holes)<\/p>\n<p>At Copperleaf Golf Club<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers:\u00a0Tyler Guth\u00a0+5, Wyatt Thiede\u00a0+5, Benjamin Upholl\u00a0+11, Aaden George\u00a0+16, Crews Foley\u00a0+21, Chase Paquet\u00a0+22.<\/p>\n<p>Bonita Springs:\u00a0Jayden Bronson\u00a0+1, Thien Vo\u00a0+8, Oakley Janke\u00a0+10.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS GOLF<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers d. Bonita Springs (forfeit)<\/p>\n<p>At El Rio Golf Club<\/p>\n<p>North Fort Myers:\u00a0Sydney Caldwell 42, Lucy Molloy 53, Kylie Pacheco 73, Amanda Pham 78.<\/p>\n<p>Bonita Springs:\u00a0Alexandria Nierstheimer 41, Riley Glover 53, Alex Breece 58.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS BOWLING<\/p>\n<p>Ida Baker d. Fort Myers (forfeit): Ida baker Kaylee Marburger had the high score in the match with 199<\/p>\n<p>BOYS BOWLING<\/p>\n<p>Ida Baker 3, Fort Myers 0: Nicholas Vu led the Bulldogs with a match-high 252.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Late Tuesday<\/p>\n<p>VOLLEYBALL<\/p>\n<p>Bonita Springs 3, Ida Baker 0:\u00a0The scores were 25-22, 25-23, 25-16.<\/p>\n<p>GIRLS GOLF<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh at Mariner, no team scores<\/p>\n<p>at Coral Oaks Golf Club<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh:\u00a0Hailey Gonzalez 63.<\/p>\n<p>Mariner:\u00a0Mia Kuhn 70.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday FOOTBALL North Fort Myers 41, Island Coast 6:\u00a0The Gators scored first, then the Red Knights scored the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-377619","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\/377619","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=377619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}