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MUSKEGON, MI – Martinez is a name to watch for Muskegon Catholic Central’s football team.
There’s Cameron, who is afterward in his brother Christian’s footsteps as MCC’s quarterback.
And again there’s a cousin, Jacob, a chief baton on MCC’s rock-solid aegis that goes up adjoin Montague this week.
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His dad is Mark Martinez, who played active aback for MCC on a accompaniment runner-up aggregation in 1986. Jacob lived with his mother in Texas until the draw to comedy with his cousins brought him aback to Muskegon for aerial school. His dad is a long-haul barter disciplinarian and Jacob lives with an aunt.
“I bethink aback we were young, talking about arena football together,” Jacob said. “(Christian) talked me into it. I absitively to appear aback and comedy football. This was article I absolutely had to do, which is a ancestors attitude for me.”
Jacob is an undersized arresting end, but makes up for his admeasurement with activity as a third-year varsity starter. At 6-foot-1 and 180 pounds, he has the backbone to authority his own on the bend and the activity to account calamity in the backfield.
“In a lot of ways, he’s apparently the toughest of our arresting players to arrangement adjoin because he has such activity and such abundant instincts,” Muskegon Catholic drillmaster Steve Czerwon said. “You attending at him and don’t anticipate he’s abundant of a arresting end or nose, wherever we accept to use him, but a lot of activity and a heck of a lot of football smarts. He’s a absolutely acceptable small-school football player.”
Martinez is allotment of first-team assemblage that has accustomed aloof two touchdowns all season. Montague is averaging 54 credibility a game, so article will accept to give.
“We’re actual aflame affective into this bold adjoin Montague. Absolutely a motivated aggregation and we are awful motivated,” Martinez said. “We’re actual competitive, any blazon of claiming that is aggravating to abort our streak, we’re absolutely aggravating to advocate that.
“I anticipate we accept a abundant defense. I anticipate we blitz to the ball. I anticipate that’s one of the things the coaches accept absolutely approved to lay on us, run to the football and we’ve been accomplishing that all year and it’s been alive out. Not abundant we’re accomplishing to change. We’ll adapt for them, but absolutely do the aforementioned things we’ve been doing.”
Away from football, Martinez enjoys actuality in the outdoors, aggregate from clay bikes to hunting and fishing. Now, his focus is on football and he wants to abutting out his aerial academy career with a fourth accompaniment appellation that would be a fifth after for the Crusaders.
He is one of bristles captains on the team, which could authority a bifold acceptation in MCC’s “Drive for Five.”
“It’s been crazy. I came to Catholic and I wasn’t cerebration annihilation about acceptable accompaniment championships,” Jacob said. “I wasn’t cerebration we would accept the success we’ve had, but it’s absolutely been a absolution from God to be able to do all that.”
Through it all, Jacob has added to the Martinez attitude at MCC.
“Such a absolute force, he gets bodies going, but at the aforementioned time, is able to booty affliction of his responsibilities as well,” Czerwon said. “A abundant kid to be around. Activity to absence him a ton abutting year.”
