SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Hundreds gathered Monday night at Wilcox High School to honor 16-year-old Isaiah Mendoza, a standout athlete and student who was killed in a car crash over the weekend.

Mendoza was driving Saturday night on Lawrence Expressway, when police say his car veered into the path of another car and hit a pole.

At a candlelight vigil on the Wilcox High campus, family and friends remembered Mendoza as both a star athlete and a devoted friend. He played on the school’s soccer and baseball teams, and friends say he hoped to play collegiate baseball.

"It’s still not real that I won’t get to see him again or talk to him again," said Manuel Baez IV, one of Mendoza’s close friends. "He really was a good kid. Everyone loved him. You see how many people are here."

Others said Men

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