{"id":1389,"date":"2024-11-05T04:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2024-11-05T04:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T04:50:06","slug":"mtown-girls-host-upper-lake-in-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1389","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;town girls host Upper Lake in first round"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Sectional soccer playoffs open Wednesday; Lower Lake, Middletown boys open on the road<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKE COUNTY &gt;&gt; Five of Lake County\u2019s eight high school fall soccer teams are headed to the North Coast Section Division 1 playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Clear Lake, Middletown and Upper Lake girls join the Middletown and Lower Lake boys in the postseason field. First-round games for both girls and boys take place Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Girls<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake (8-7-2), the No. 9 seed, plays at No. 8 Middletown (7-8-1) in the only first-round girls game Wednesday. Action starts at 2:30 p.m. at Middletown High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The top seven teams in the girls field, including No. 7 Clear Lake (11-11-2), have first-round byes because there weren\u2019t enough teams to fill the 16-team bracket. They automatically advance to the quarterfinals where Clear Lake will travel to No. 2 seed Fortuna (15-3-1) on either Friday or Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Upper Lake-Middletown winner advances to the quarterfinals on Friday or Saturday at No. 1 seed Eureka (10-2-1). Middletown beat Upper Lake twice during North Central League I play, winning 2-1 at Upper Lake on Oct. 3 and 3-2 at Middletown on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Semifinals are Nov. 13 and the championship game Nov. 15 or Nov. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only No. 1 seed Head-Royce (16-0-1) of Oakland has a bye in the first round of the Division 1 boys playoffs where 15 of the available 16 spots are taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake (12-3-1), the North Central League I runner-up this season, hits the road Wednesday to play No. 5 Del Norte (15-3-2) at 3:30 p.m. in Crescent City. Middletown (9-5-1), third in the NCL I standings, is the No. 14 seed and hits the road Wednesday to play No. 3 seed Making Waves Academy (9-3-6) of Richmond at MLK Field in Richmond beginning at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake and Middletown would both advance to the quarterfinals Friday or Saturday if they can score an upset in Wednesday\u2019s opening round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Semifinals are Nov. 13 and the championship game Nov. 15 or Nov. 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sectional soccer playoffs open Wednesday; Lower Lake, Middletown boys open on the road Lake County Sports on Facebook LAKE COUNTY &gt;&gt; Five of Lake County\u2019s eight high school fall soccer teams are headed to the North Coast Section Division 1 playoffs. The Clear Lake, Middletown and Upper Lake girls join the Middletown and Lower Lake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,16,47,18,19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389"}],"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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}