{"id":1784,"date":"2024-12-28T18:43:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2024-12-28T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T18:43:24","slug":"knights-fall-behind-early-lose-62-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Knights fall behind early, lose 62-54"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Kelseyville drops non-league road contest to Del Norte Warriors<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CRESCENT CITY &gt;&gt; Digging themselves a big hole early, the Kelseyville Knights battled back but couldn\u2019t quite catch Del Norte High School, falling 62-54 in a non-league varsity boys basketball game Friday night in Crescent City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville (6-6) fell behind 20-9 in the first quarter but closed to within five points of the Warriors (11-2) later in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe would make a run to get close, but they would answer our run with one of their own to go back up by nine,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Oscar Lopez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another slow start by the Knights was largely because of the team\u2019s play on the defensive end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe fell asleep on defense,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cWe were slow, lacked focus, couldn\u2019t communicate, and it hurt us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of two games during a northern road swing for the Knights, who play at Eureka 3:30 p.m. Saturday before heading home, Kelseyville closed to 30-21 at halftime. Del Norte had a 45-34 edge after three quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kyle Watkins scored 10 of his team-leading 20 points in the fourth quarter in an attempt to rally the Knights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe came to play,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Watkins had one of 10 3-pointers by the Knights, who also received nine points from Brock Barrick and Gene Holdenried, and six from Ryder Leary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Del Norte also won the junior varsity game 36-24. Gordon Astrup led the Knights with seven points and Joey Watson had five. Kelseyville\u2019s JVs play Eureka on Saturday at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelseyville drops non-league road contest to Del Norte Warriors Lake County Sports on Facebook CRESCENT CITY &gt;&gt; Digging themselves a big hole early, the Kelseyville Knights battled back but couldn\u2019t quite catch Del Norte High School, falling 62-54 in a non-league varsity boys basketball game Friday night in Crescent City. Kelseyville (6-6) fell behind 20-9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784"}],"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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1785,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/1785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}