{"id":1109,"date":"2024-10-07T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2024-10-07T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T18:44:34","slug":"colts-hold-off-trojans-26-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1109","title":{"rendered":"Colts hold off Trojans, 26-22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Lower Lake rallies from 26-6 deficit to make a game of it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; After digging themselves a 26-6 hole against undefeated Middletown, the Lower Lake Trojans battled back to make a game of it, falling 26-22 to the Colt in Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League varsity action Saturday night at Bill Foltmer Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading 14-6 at the half, Middletown (6-0) scored on each of its first two possessions of the second half to go up 26-6. Ismael Orozco\u2019s 7-yard run, his second touchdown of the game, sparked Lower Lake\u2019s comeback as the Trojans add the two-point conversion kick, also by Orozco, to make it 26-14. Following a Middletown fumble recovered by Lower Lake\u2019s Ryder Steffen, Lower Lake was on the move again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 37-yard Steffen reception set up a 2-yard touchdown run by Jaymen Bagsby. Orozco again added the conversion kick to narrow the Middletown lead to 26-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake (4-2) couldn\u2019t recover an onside kickoff and Middletown was able to run out the remainder of the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roy Percoats had 17 carries for 106 yards for Lower Lake. Orozco anchored the defense with seven and a half tackles in addition to his 38 yards rushing, two touchdowns and two conversion kicks. Wyatt Chalecki added four and a half tackles on defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was really proud of how hard our guys worked all night,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Mark Garner said. \u201cThey fought right to the last few seconds. We\u2019ll regroup and get back to work for next week\u2019s game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake returns home next Saturday to host Kelseyville (3-3) at 7:30 p.m. Middletown hosts Cloverdale (1-4-1). Pee wee games at both locations start at 4 p.m. and junior varsity action follows at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was really proud of how hard our guys worked all night. They faught right to the last few seconds. We&#8217;ll regroup and get back to work for next week&#8217;s game.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Lake rallies from 26-6 deficit to make a game of it Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; After digging themselves a 26-6 hole against undefeated Middletown, the Lower Lake Trojans battled back to make a game of it, falling 26-22 to the Colt in Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League varsity action Saturday night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}