{"id":3670,"date":"2025-08-17T20:10:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:10:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:10:40","slug":"hopkins-butcher-propel-westshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3670","title":{"rendered":"Hopkins, Butcher propel Westshore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>JV Cardinals roll past Kelseyville 31-0 in season opener<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; LJ Hopkins and Layton Butcher took great big bites out of the Kelseyville defense Saturday as the two junior varsity teams square off during week one of Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League play at Clear Lake High School in Lakeport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopkins rushed for 152 yards on only eight carries with three touchdowns while Butcher added 138 yards on six carries with two TDs as the Cardinals rolled to a 31-0 win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopkins scored touchdowns on his first two touches of the day, rambling 35 yards and 60 yards. He added his third touchdown on his fifth touch, this time on a 40-yard run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Kelseyville\u2019s defense put a spy on Hopkins, the Cardinals began feeding Butcher the ball. He scored on a 60-yard run late in the second quarter, then after Westshore\u2019s defense forced a three-and-out, Butcher scored on a 70-yard right before halftime while pushing the Cardinals\u2019 lead to 31-0. The mercy rule went into effect at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westshore\u2019s defense allowed Kelseyville 70 yards of total offense. Butcher anchored the defensive unit with seven tackles while Josiah Smith had four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSmith was on a tear on the defensive line, disrupting nearly every play,\u201d Westshore head coach Jeremy Hopkins said. \u201cThe D line as a whole controlled the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Hopkins, \u201cIt was a great way to start the season, but there\u2019s still a lot of hard work to do. We have to iron out some details.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westshore (1-0) hosts Fort Bragg next Saturday while Kelseyville (0-1) visits Lower Lake. Game times are 3:30 p.m. for the pee wees, 5:30 p.m. for the junior varsity and 7:30 p.m. for the varsity at both locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JV Cardinals roll past Kelseyville 31-0 in season opener Lake County Sports on Facebook LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; LJ Hopkins and Layton Butcher took great big bites out of the Kelseyville defense Saturday as the two junior varsity teams square off during week one of Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League play at Clear Lake High School in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,54,46,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670"}],"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=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}