La Quinta lineman named Week 9 Pocial Friday Night Hero. You can vote for Week 10 candidates
It's another week of the 2023 high school football season in the Coachella Valley, which means we have another Pocial Friday Night Hero.
You voted online and on Instagram, with the votes favoring La Quinta offensive lineman Ty Murga as the Week 9 Friday Night Hero brought to you by Pocial.
Coachella Valley's Aaron Ramirez won the voting on Instagram, but Murga won the online voting on The Desert Sun website and finished with more total votes between the two different ways to vote.
Murga is an outlier in that lineman almost never get the kind of love that skill position players do in FNH voting. But the senior left tackle was that good in a 20-13 win over Xavier Prep.
So, who will win the honor for Week 10? That's up to you.
Below are this week's candidates. Read up on what they accomplished and then vote for your favorite in the poll at the bottom of this article or on Instagram at @desertsunsports. Voting concludes at noon Tuesday.
Jordan Johnson
Palm Springs, running back
What he did: Johnson, who has become a regular Friday Night Hero candidate this season, ran for 132 yards and caught an interception in overtime of a huge win over Xavier Prep that kept the Indians' CIF playoff hopes alive.
Messiah Smith
Desert Hot Springs, quarterback
What he did: Smith threw three touchdown passes in a 50-7 win over Twentynine Palms that gave the Golden Eagles their seventh win of the season.
Derek Calderon
Coachella Valley, Quarterback
What he did: Calderon threw three touchdown passes in a 52-8 win over Cathedral City that secured a CIF playoff berth for the eighth consecutive year for the Mighty Arabs.
Pedro Trujillo
Shadow Hills, running back
What he did: In a win over Palm Desert, Trujillo ran for 62 yards and recorded 73 receiving yards, too. He caught a pair of touchdown passes and threw a touchdown pass on a fake punt.
Jeremiah Williams
Rancho Mirage, running back
What he did: In a big win over La Quinta that clinched a Desert Empire League title for the Rattlers, Williams ran for 123 yards and three touchdowns.
This article originally appeared on Palm Springs Desert Sun: La Quinta lineman is Week 9 Pocial Friday Night Hero
