{"id":3672,"date":"2025-08-18T16:58:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:58:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:58:34","slug":"lower-lake-varsity-begins-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"Lower Lake varsity begins title defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Trojans pull away in second half to beat Middletown Colts 26-12 in season opener<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Picking up where they lost off last season when they beat Middletown 22-12 to win the Mendo-Lake Junior Empire Junior Football League championship in the varsity division, the Lower Lake Trojans opened a new year with a 26-12 victory over those very same Colt on Saturday evening at Lower Lake High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 20-6 second half proved to be the difference after the two teams entered halftime tied at 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a good day to start the season,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Mark Garner said. \u201cThe boys played really hard all night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Braylen Fanucchi rushed for 70 yards and two touchdowns to lead Lower Lake (1-0). Teammate Wyatt Chaelcki added 77 yards and a TD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake\u2019s first points came on Brilee Hayes\u2019 21-yard touchdown reception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the defensive side of the ball, Damion Giambra had a team-best six tackles. He had plenty of help from Michael Garner, who had four tackles and an interception, and from Gavin Cheek (four tackles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have some things to clean up this week before our next game, but overall I was happy with how we played,\u201d Garner said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown scoring and statistics were not reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake hosts Kelseyville (0-1) next Saturday while Middletown (0-1) visits Cloverdale (1-0). Pee wee games at both locations begin at 3:30 p.m. followed by junior varsity games at 5:30 p.m. and varsity games at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trojans pull away in second half to beat Middletown Colts 26-12 in season opener Lake County Sports on Facebook LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Picking up where they lost off last season when they beat Middletown 22-12 to win the Mendo-Lake Junior Empire Junior Football League championship in the varsity division, the Lower Lake Trojans opened a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,48,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672"}],"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=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}