{"id":3139,"date":"2025-04-29T11:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:46:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:46:02","slug":"knights-close-in-on-volleyball-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3139","title":{"rendered":"Knights close in on volleyball title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Kelseyville beats Lower Lake in straight sets, moves within a win of co-championship<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; Julian Armas\u2019 setting kept Kelseyville\u2019s hitters busy all night as the Knights moved to within a win of clinching a share of a second straight North Central League I championship with a 25-16, 25-4, 25-11 victory over the Lower Lake Trojans on Monday in Kelseyville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville (8-1 league) is home again Tuesday night to close out its league and regular-season schedule against Anderson Valley, and a win will give the Knights a co-championship. Roseland University Prep (9-1) of Santa Rosa has already secured at least half of the NCL I title. Those two teams also tied for the league\u2019s top spot a year ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Kelseyville knocks off Anderson Valley to create a tie for first, the Knights and RUP will meet later in the week in a one-game playoff that decides which team gets the league\u2019s automatic berth into the North Coast Section playoffs. The loser can still reach the postseason as an at-large team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armas didn\u2019t play favorites while setting up Kelseyville\u2019s many hitters. Andon Beall and Jorge Bernal finished with 12 kills apiece, Diego Serrato added seven more while Fabrizio Herrera finished with six. Beall also led the team with seven aces and two blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJulian Armas did a really nice job distributing the ball to several attackers,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Donelle McCallister said of Armas\u2019 34 assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otoniel Rivas anchored the defense with 12 digs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Baqleh and Jozef Arias each contributed four aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Kelseyville is fielding a boys volleyball team for a second straight season, Lower Lake\u2018s program is nearing the end of its first year of competition, and the Trojans have struggled at times this season to field enough players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLower Lake was able to put together a team,\u201d McCallister said of Monday\u2019s action. \u201cThey have some young people who have some volleyball skills that they can develop for next year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added McCallister, \u201cOur boys are trying to be consistent with their attacks and making the correct choice when handling the set that Julian Armas puts up for them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake statistics were not available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelseyville beats Lower Lake in straight sets, moves within a win of co-championship Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; Julian Armas\u2019 setting kept Kelseyville\u2019s hitters busy all night as the Knights moved to within a win of clinching a share of a second straight North Central League I championship with a 25-16, 25-4, 25-11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,86,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139"}],"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=3139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3141,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3139\/revisions\/3141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}