{"id":1361,"date":"2024-11-02T18:44:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2024-11-02T18:44:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-02T18:44:52","slug":"middletown-jvs-clinch-league-tite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1361","title":{"rendered":"Middletown JVs clinch league tite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Muniz rushes for three touchdowns, Finney for two more in 39-0 win<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Esteban Muniz rushed for 131 yards and three touchdowns while John Finney contributed a team-best 154 yards and two more TDs Friday night as the Middletown High School junior varsity football team clinched a tie for the North Central League I championship with a 39-0 victory at Lower Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown improved to 7-0 in the league standings and 9-0 overall while Lower Lake fell to 0-7 in league play. The Mustangs can claim the outright league crown next Friday with a win at home against Upper Lake (4-3) or with a Kelseyville (6-1) loss to St. Helena (4-3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finney scored both of his touchdowns in the first quarter on runs of 9 and 20 yards as the Mustangs built a 13-0 lead. They put the game with a 20-point second quarter featuring scoring runs of 13, 34 and 3 yards by Muniz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willy Tadder added a 46-yard TD run in the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown finished with 349 yards of total offense, all rushing. The Mustangs didn\u2019t attempt a single pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown\u2019s defense held Lower Lake to 69 yards of total offense, 42 passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake closes out its season next Friday in Fort Bragg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muniz rushes for three touchdowns, Finney for two more in 39-0 win Lake County Sports on Facebook LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Esteban Muniz rushed for 131 yards and three touchdowns while John Finney contributed a team-best 154 yards and two more TDs Friday night as the Middletown High School junior varsity football team clinched a tie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,18,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361"}],"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=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}