{"id":2765,"date":"2025-03-27T13:57:56","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2025-03-27T13:57:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T13:57:56","slug":"perez-mustangs-shut-out-wolverines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Perez, Mustangs shut out Wolverines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Middletown bounces back to throttle Willits in non-league road game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WILLITS &gt;&gt; One day after being no-hit by the St. Helena Saints in their league opener, the Middletown Mustangs bounced back with a 15-0 victory over the Willits Wolverines in non-league action at Willits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The game was called after five innings because of the 10-run mercy rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReally proud of the way the kids bounced back,\u201d Middletown head coach Kyle Buckhorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite suiting up the minimum nine players, the Mustangs (2-3-1) improved to 2-0 this season against Willits \u2013 both shutout victories. Cody Perez worked all five innings, scattering three hits, striking out seven and walking two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe kids really wanted it today, pitching and hitting,\u201d Buckhorn said. \u201cI\u2019m really proud of Cody Perez.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Buckhorn also credited assistant coach Brandon Costlow with having the team ready to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCoach Brandon Costlow deserves a lot of the credit,\u201d Buckhorn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown took a 2-0 lead in the top of the third inning and added three more runs in the fourth before batting around and scoring 10 times in the fifth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willits had a runner cut down at the plate as Jon Hawkins\u2019 throw from medium-deep left field arrived in time to preserve the shutout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was an amazing throw,\u201d Buckhorn said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown banged out seven hits led by Perez (2-for-3, double). Madden Sutton (1-for-2), Johnny Finney (1-for-3, double) and Kelby Shook (1-for-4, double) drove in two runs apiece. Hunter Karp (1-for-5) scored three times while Hayden Xavier (1-for-4) scored twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown jumps back into its North Central League I schedule Friday at Cloverdale. The Mustangs stay on the road Saturday to play Piner in Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middletown bounces back to throttle Willits in non-league road game Lake County Sports on Facebook WILLITS &gt;&gt; One day after being no-hit by the St. Helena Saints in their league opener, the Middletown Mustangs bounced back with a 15-0 victory over the Willits Wolverines in non-league action at Willits. The game was called after five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,84,19,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"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=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}