{"id":2478,"date":"2025-02-27T15:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2478"},"modified":"2025-02-27T15:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:43:34","slug":"mtown-boys-fall-in-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2478","title":{"rendered":"M’town boys fall in semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mustangs return home Saturday to play Windsor in sectional third-place game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MIDDLETOWN >> There was no coming back from the 27-8 quarter the St. Patrick-St. Vincent Bruins threw at the Middletown Mustangs in the first half of their North Coast Section Division 4 semifinal-round playoff game Wednesday night in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That second-quarter surge carried the Bruins, the No. 11 seed playing their third straight road game, to a dominating 74-48 victory over the host Mustangs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe second quarter got out of hand for us,\u201d Middletown head coach Jake Diehl said. \u201cThey hit four 3s and two alley-oop dunks. That team obviously plays year-round ball. Hats off to them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was just too much for the Mustangs (23-7), who were down 20-12 coming into the second quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diehl said he couldn\u2019t fault the effort of his own team because it was simply outmatched by the St. Patrick-St. Vincent squad, one that moved up from Division 5 to play in the Division 4 playoffs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur boys played tough through the last whistle,\u201d Diehl said. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of them. I always ask for max effort and they gave that tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anthony Bowerman and Bodhi Moore finished with 11 points apiece to lead the Mustangs while Jasiah Pike added eight points and Jon Hawkins and Cody Perez had six each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While St. Patrick-St. Vincent (14-13) advances to the championship game Saturday against No. 1 seed Piedmont, the Mustangs return home to host Windsor High School in the third-place game Saturday night at 7 p.m. The winner receives a berth in next week\u2019s NorCal playoffs, part of the CIF State Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diehl said there\u2019s really no time for the Mustangs to reflect on the loss to St. Patrick-St. Vincent with the Jaguars (14-15), the third Division 2 team they\u2019ll face in the playoffs, headed to town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Diehl said following Wednesday\u2019s game. \u201cWe are back to work tomorrow to prepare to play for third (place).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GAME NOTES:<\/strong> Bowerman and Perez each had two 3-pointers in the loss to St. Patrick-St. Vincent \u2026 Middletown needs one more win to break the school record for most wins in a single season \u2026 Middletown has already beaten two Division 2 teams in the playoffs \u2013 Arroyo High School of San Lorenzo (opening round) and Mission San Jose of Fremont (quarterfinals) \u2026 With Kelseyville\u2019s loss to International in the Division 5 semifinals on Tuesday, Middletown was the last hope for Lake County to end what is now a 36-year drought of no section titles in boys basketball. The last team to do it was Clear Lake in 1989 \u2026 It\u2019s single elimination from here on out as the next loss ends your season \u2026 An old saying says that if you\u2019re still playing basketball in March, you\u2019ve done good, and the Mustangs have accomplished that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mustangs return home Saturday to play Windsor in sectional third-place game Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN >> There was no coming back from the 27-8 quarter the St. Patrick-St. Vincent Bruins threw at the Middletown Mustangs in the first half of their North Coast Section Division 4 semifinal-round playoff game Wednesday night in Middletown. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478"}],"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=2478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2480,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2478\/revisions\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}