{"id":3346,"date":"2025-05-16T20:44:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2025-05-16T20:44:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T20:44:53","slug":"mountain-vista-middletown-advance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Vista, Middletown advance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>No. 1 seed Terrace, No. 2 Upper Lake play Saturday in semifinal round<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; Mountain Vista and Middletown advanced to the semifinal round of the Lake County Junior High Athletic League middle school softball playoffs Thursday with first-round wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountain Vista, the No. 3 seed, defeated No. 6 seed Lucerne 12-2 in four innings at Kelseyville while No. 5 seed Middletown upset No. 4 seed Obsidian 13-7 in Clearlake Oaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of Thursday\u2019s results, Mountain Vista draws No. 2 seed Upper Lake, and Middletown plays No. 1 seed Terrace 10:30 a.m. Saturday in the semifinals at Middletown High School. Winners advance to the championship game at 1:30 p.m. and losers play for third place, also at 1:30 p.m. The fifth-place game between Lucerne and Obsidian takes place Friday at 4:30 p.m., with Obsidian hosting the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mountain Vista 12, Lucerne 2 (4 inn.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Kelseyville, Carly Gleason went 2-for-2 with a home run and three RBIs as Mountain Vista handled Lucerne in short order. Winning pitcher Madi Byrne struck out six and helped her own cause by going 2-for-2 with two RBIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were leery of Lucerne because they have improved greatly, but our girls came out motivated, confident and played as a team,\u201d Mountain Vista head coach Patrick Mick said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brooke Poff went 2-for-3 with a RBI. Bella Espinoza (1-for-1) drove in three runs and Gabby Keyes (1-for-2) knocked in two more. Kiera Mick went 1-for-1 with a RBI. Kaitlyn Tarin also had a hit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucerne statistics were not reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Middletown 13, Obsidian 7<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Clearlake Oaks, Lilliaunna Reyes struck out 10 while allowing only three earned runs as Middletown beat Obsidian in first-round play. The Broncos and Bears were tied 7-7 going to the sixth inning when Middletown erupted for six runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophie Steston and Mia Martin carried the offensive load for Middletown, each with three hits. Stetson also knocked in three runs while Martin had one RBI. Reyes went 1-for-2 with a double and two RBIs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obsidian statistics were not reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. 1 seed Terrace, No. 2 Upper Lake play Saturday in semifinal round Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; Mountain Vista and Middletown advanced to the semifinal round of the Lake County Junior High Athletic League middle school softball playoffs Thursday with first-round wins. Mountain Vista, the No. 3 seed, defeated No. 6 seed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,92,40,49,45,89,55,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346"}],"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=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}