{"id":3761,"date":"2025-08-30T16:56:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3761"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:56:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T16:56:38","slug":"ulhs-boys-soccer-falls-7-1-at-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3761","title":{"rendered":"ULHS boys soccer falls 7-1 at tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cougars lose in opening round to McKinleyville at MIST Tournament<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MCKINLEYVILLE &gt;&gt; Daniel Rojas scored Upper Lake\u2019s goal in a 7-1 loss to McKinleyville on Friday at the MIST Tournament in McKinleyville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe score looks ugly, but we played great against a good team,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Thomas Santana said. \u201cHeight definitely played a factor in today\u2019s game. We couldn\u2019t stop the air attack with them being so much taller. They had two goals on corner kicks and two on crosses with headers. It was a total mismatch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the discrepancy in height and talent between the two teams, Santana said his Cougars (0-3) never gave up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThat didn\u2019t stop my boys from putting up a fight,\u201d Santana said. \u201cThey continued to try and attack. The aggressive style of soccer played up in the Eureka area is not something we were used to, but we didn\u2019t back down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rojas scored in the second half, burying a shot in the corner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConstant action made for a very exciting game,\u201d Santana said. \u201cI\u2019m proud of how hard they played and know that they\u2019re going to continue to improve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake played St. Bernard on 9 a.m. Saturday as tournament action continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cougars lose in opening round to McKinleyville at MIST Tournament Lake County Sports on Facebook MCKINLEYVILLE &gt;&gt; Daniel Rojas scored Upper Lake\u2019s goal in a 7-1 loss to McKinleyville on Friday at the MIST Tournament in McKinleyville. \u201cThe score looks ugly, but we played great against a good team,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Thomas Santana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,6,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761"}],"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=3761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3761\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}