{"id":3961,"date":"2025-09-15T17:17:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2025-09-15T19:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T19:04:07","slug":"lower-lake-varsity-rallies-past-cloverdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Lower Lake varsity rallies past Cloverdale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Win sets up undefeated showdown between 4-0 Trojans and 4-0 Westshore Cardinals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Rallying from a 14-8 deficit in the fourth quarter, the Lower Lake varsity youth football team beat the Cloverdale Chargers 18-14 in Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League action Saturday at Lower Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victory sets up an undefeated showdown next Saturday in Lakeport between the Trojans (4-0) and Westshore Cardinals (4-0). Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. at Don Owens Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake outscored Cloverdale 10-0 in the fourth quarter, beginning with a safety after forcing the Chargers to attempt a punt from deep in their own territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trojans got the ball right back on the free kick following the safety and drove down the field, scoring on Michael Garner\u2019s 1-yard run. The two-point conversion kick made it 18-14. With plenty of time left on the clock, the Chargers drove the ball into Lower Lake territory, but the comeback bid ended with a Wyatt Chaelcki interception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the first half, Lower Lake scored first, marching 65 yards on its opening possession capped by a Braylen Fanucchi 15-yard touchdown run. The conversion kick was good for a 8-0 Trojans lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloverdale answered with a 65-yard scoring drive of its own and also made the conversion kick to tie the game 8-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chargers also opened the second half with a touchdown drive to go up 14-8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake\u2019s defense was led by Damion Giambra, who had four tackles and a forced fumble. Gavin Cheek, Tony Velazquez and Aidynn Pantoja all finished with four tackles. Jaymen Bagsby had an interception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCloverdale is a really good team,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Mark Garner said. \u201cThey came to play. It was a great battle all night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Garner gave high marks to his defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur defense came up big at the right times to secure the win for us,\u201d he said. \u201cI was really happy with how they played.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Win sets up undefeated showdown between 4-0 Trojans and 4-0 Westshore Cardinals Lake County Sports on Facebook LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; Rallying from a 14-8 deficit in the fourth quarter, the Lower Lake varsity youth football team beat the Cloverdale Chargers 18-14 in Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League action Saturday at Lower Lake. The victory sets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961"}],"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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}