{"id":1401,"date":"2024-11-07T19:42:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2024-11-07T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T19:42:11","slug":"kliers-goal-sends-ul-into-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1401","title":{"rendered":"Klier&#8217;s goal sends UL into quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cougars edge Mustangs 1-0 in opening round of sectional playoffs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Portia Klier\u2019s 20<sup>th<\/sup> goal of the season was by far her most important one as the Upper Lake Cougars held off the Middletown Mustangs 1-0 in the opening round of the North Coast Section Division 1 girls soccer playoffs at Bill Foltmer Field in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the third meeting between the two teams this season but Upper Lake\u2019s first win. All three games were decided by a single goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake (9-7-2), the No. 9 seed in the Division 1 field, travels to Eureka on Friday at 2:30 p.m. to play No. 1 seed Eureka High School (10-2-1) in the quarterfinals. If the Cougars can pull off a second straight upset, they will advance to the semifinal round next Wednesday against the winner of a quarterfinal-round match between No. 4 Arcata and No. 5 Willits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown closes out the season at 7-9-1. In two North Central League I meetings with Upper Lake this year, the Mustangs won 2-1 at Upper Lake on Oct. 3 and 3-2 at Middletown on Oct. 22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their third meeting, Middletown and Upper Lake played to a scoreless tie in the first half. It was still 0-0 midway through the second half when Klier, a sophomore center-forward, beat the Middletown keeper one on one, punching the ball into the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown nearly tied it later in the half when Serenity Suite Thomsen had a one-on-one opportunity against Upper Lake keeper Lelya Marcks, who caught just enough of Thomsen\u2019s hard shot to deflect it away from the net and out of bounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams had a couple of golden scoring opportunities in the first half but could not convert. Marcks fought off a number of Middletown attacks down the stretch, including a free kick that curled over the top of the frame, to keep Upper Lake in front.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cougars edge Mustangs 1-0 in opening round of sectional playoffs Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Portia Klier\u2019s 20th goal of the season was by far her most important one as the Upper Lake Cougars held off the Middletown Mustangs 1-0 in the opening round of the North Coast Section Division 1 girls soccer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"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=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}