{"id":4122,"date":"2025-09-30T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4122"},"modified":"2025-09-30T00:47:53","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T00:47:53","slug":"northshore-varsity-loses-20-0-to-willits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4122","title":{"rendered":"Northshore varsity loses 20-0 to Willits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cougars miss on two prime scoring opportunities in first half<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; Reduced to 13 players because of injuries, the Northshore Cougars dropped a 20-0 decision to Willits during Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League varsity play on Saturday at Upper Lake High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Willits (2-4) led 6-0 at halftime. Northshore (0-5-1) drove deep into Willits territory twice in the first two quarters \u2013 getting to the 5-yard line both times \u2013 only to lose a fumble once and turn it over on downs the other occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMental mistakes killed both chances to score,\u201d Northshore varsity coach Bradley Brackett said. \u201cWe weren\u2019t able to execute when it mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Brackett, \u201cWillits No. 84 was a kid with athleticism, and they used that in the second half. He had three big catches in the second half to seal the game. Willits played a tough football game and stayed disciplined on defense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northshore is on the road next Saturday at Sonoma. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cougars miss on two prime scoring opportunities in first half Lake County Sports on Facebook UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; Reduced to 13 players because of injuries, the Northshore Cougars dropped a 20-0 decision to Willits during Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League varsity play on Saturday at Upper Lake High School. Willits (2-4) led 6-0 at halftime. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122"}],"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=4122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4123,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4122\/revisions\/4123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}