{"id":2692,"date":"2025-03-21T15:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2025-03-21T15:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:15:02","slug":"bruch-pitches-cardinals-to-5-2-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2692","title":{"rendered":"Bruch pitches Cardinals to 5-2 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Clear Lake defeats Napa for second time this season in non-league action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NAPA &gt;&gt; AJ Bruch pitched 5 2\/3 innings for the win, scattering five hits, and the Clear Lake High School varsity baseball team beat Napa 5-2 in non-league action Thursday in Napa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake improved to 4-2 overall with its second victory this season against Napa, a team the Cardinals also beat 6-1 on March 6 in the opening round of the Chico Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruch allowed both Napa runs, only one of which was earned. He struck out five and walked two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trailing 1-0 after one inning, Clear Lake tied the game with a run in the top of the second. The Cardinals pushed ahead to stay with another run in the third before padding their lead with a run in the fourth and two more in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>David Cruz went 2-for-3 with a RBI as part of Clear Lake\u2019s nine-hit attack. Johnny Gonzales (1-for-3) added a double while Levi Ewing (1-for-2) and Ryken Villanueva (0-for-5) knocked in runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruch, Sawyer Smith, Payton Portlock, Jacob Horne and Zane McAuley had Clear Lake\u2019s other hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinals return to action Friday at Willits. First pitch is 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clear Lake defeats Napa for second time this season in non-league action Lake County Sports on Facebook NAPA &gt;&gt; AJ Bruch pitched 5 2\/3 innings for the win, scattering five hits, and the Clear Lake High School varsity baseball team beat Napa 5-2 in non-league action Thursday in Napa. Clear Lake improved to 4-2 overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,16,84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692"}],"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=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2693,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/2693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}