{"id":1568,"date":"2024-12-04T17:43:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2024-12-04T17:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T17:43:33","slug":"rico-scores-four-goals-in-kelseyville-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"Rico scores four goals in Kelseyville win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Lady Knights open soccer season with 5-1 road victory against Pierce<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ARBUCKLE &gt;&gt; Mikaela Rico scored four times to lift the Kelseyville High School girls soccer team to a season-opening 5-1 victory over the Pierce Bears on Tuesday in Arbuckle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rico\u2019s first goal, assisted by Kylee Denham, put the Knights (1-0) up just 12 minutes into the game although Pierce tied the game with a free kick as the first half ended in a 1-1 tie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rico scored three straight goals in the second half, two of them assisted by Jacky Chavez, to give the Knights a 4-1 lead. Denham added an insurance goal later in the half to make it 5-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Melanie Jimenez also had an assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe started off a little slow in the first half, had a few shots at goals but the ball just wasn\u2019t going into the net,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Irma Rodriguez said. \u201cComing into the second half, the team was able to pull it together and play together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Standouts on defense for the Knights were Mya Ogo, Vanessa Reyes, Arionna Sanderson and Xiomara Arias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOverall, I\u2019m very proud of these girls, they played a good game,\u201d Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville returns to action Wednesday in Anderson at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lady Knights open soccer season with 5-1 road victory against Pierce Lake County Sports on Facebook ARBUCKLE &gt;&gt; Mikaela Rico scored four times to lift the Kelseyville High School girls soccer team to a season-opening 5-1 victory over the Pierce Bears on Tuesday in Arbuckle. Rico\u2019s first goal, assisted by Kylee Denham, put the Knights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,6,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568"}],"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=1568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1568\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}