{"id":3226,"date":"2025-05-05T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3226"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:19:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T14:19:31","slug":"knights-forced-to-hit-road-in-round-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3226","title":{"rendered":"Knights forced to hit road in round one"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Kelseyville boys volleyball team travels to Alhambra for Division 4 opener<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; The Kelseyville Knights might have been better off had they not been the top seed out of the North Central League I.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Kelseyville (16-10) and Roseland University Prep finished as league co-champions for the second year in a row, and the Knights earned the league\u2019s top seed for the North Coast Section Division 4 boys volleyball playoffs that begin Tuesday, they\u2019ll be opening on the road while RUP (11-3) hosts Quarry Lane (14-15) in another first-round match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though designated league champions are generally guaranteed a first-round home match, that rule doesn\u2019t apply when a team is paired with another higher-seeded league champion, which is the case with the 11<sup>th<\/sup>-seeded Knights going up Diablo Valley champion Alhambra High School (12-9), the No. 6 seed. They\u2019ll play 7 p.m. Tuesday at Alhambra High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>RUP came away with the eighth seed. A third NCL I team, Technology (11-11), qualified as an at-large team and drew the No. 15 seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville and RUP split their two league matches this year, Kelseyville sweeping RUP in their first meeting and losing in five sets in the rematch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Knights can pull off the upset against Alhambra and win the school\u2019s first ever sectional playoff match in boys volleyball, they\u2019ll face the winner of a first-round match between No. 3 Cardinal Newman (9-10) and No. 14 Archie Williams (9-20) in the quarterfinals on Thursday at the home site of the highest surviving seed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The RUP-Quarry Lane winner travels to No. 1 seed North Hills Christian (18-10) of Vallejo in Thursday\u2019s quarterfinals. North Hills Christian has a first-round bye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other first-round matches have No. 4 Terra Linda hosting No. 13 Stuart Hall, No. 5 Windsor hosting No. 12 Benicia, No. 2 Berean Christian hosting Technology, No. 7 Bethel hosting No. 10 Swett, and Cardinal Newman hosting Archie Williams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Semifinal-round matches are Tuesday, May 13 and the Division 4 championship is Thursday, May 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville fell in three sets to Albany a year ago in first-round sectional action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelseyville boys volleyball team travels to Alhambra for Division 4 opener Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; The Kelseyville Knights might have been better off had they not been the top seed out of the North Central League I. While Kelseyville (16-10) and Roseland University Prep finished as league co-champions for the second year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,86,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226"}],"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=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3227,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions\/3227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}