{"id":4181,"date":"2025-10-04T18:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4181"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:02:13","slug":"trailing-36-21-cards-forfeit-to-mt-shasta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4181","title":{"rendered":"Trailing 36-21, Cards forfeit to Mt. Shasta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Clear Lake runs out of players before waving white flag in non-league road game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MT. SHASTA >> Suiting up only 13 players, the Clear Lake Cardinals ended up forfeiting to the Mt. Shasta Bears trailing 36-21 early in the fourth quarter Friday night during non-league varsity football action in Mt. Shasta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Injuries to defensive end David Frederick and lineman Jake Ingham left Clear Lake (3-2) with only 11 players in the second half, and there were times late in the game when the Cardinals ran plays with fewer than 11 players on the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were playing at times with nine kids,\u201d Clear Lake head coach Augie Perez said. \u201cThey (players) didn\u2019t want to quit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear Lake stayed within a touchdown of Mt. Shasta (2-3) most of the way, but after the Bears scored early in the fourth quarter to go up 36-21, Perez said he had seen enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt got to the point where we pulled the plug,\u201d Perez said. \u201cIt\u2019s not worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

None of the injuries appeared to be serious, according to Perez, who said Frederick and Ingham were walking around normally after the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A couple of other Clear Lake players finished the game at less than 100 percent \u2013 notably Fabian Moreno (ankle) and Mikah Meo (shin splints).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t want to come out,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, with Clear Lake contending for a North Central League I title and with a road game to Willits coming up next Friday, Perez said the Cardinals needed to cut their losses early in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear Lake\u2019s low numbers weren\u2019t entirely football related as the team lost players to the school\u2019s weekly grade check system late in the week. Yet another player informed Perez he couldn\u2019t make the trip north right before the team departed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo instead of 14, I had 13,\u201d Perez said. \u201cHopefully we get some of those kids back next week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear Lake played with a makeshift offensive line, slowing down the Cardinals\u2019 running attack. Jessie Hayes finished with 42 yards on seven carries but extended his streak of games with at least one score by catching a 24-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter, which cut Mt. Shasta\u2019s lead to 28-21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quarterback AJ Bruch completed 15 of 24 passes for 161 yards, with touchdown passes to Hayes and Meo, who hauled in a 59-yard pass. Meo had two catches for 69 yards overall while Hayes caught five passes for 38 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear Lake\u2019s first six points came on a Kaden Graham 3-yard interception return. Graham, a tight end, replaced Ingham at tackle in the third quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colton Mendonca anchored the Cardinals\u2019 defense with nine tackles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was all over the place,\u201d Perez said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hayes added six tackles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There was no junior varsity game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clear Lake runs out of players before waving white flag in non-league road game Lake County Sports on Facebook MT. SHASTA >> Suiting up only 13 players, the Clear Lake Cardinals ended up forfeiting to the Mt. Shasta Bears trailing 36-21 early in the fourth quarter Friday night during non-league varsity football action in Mt. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,110,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181"}],"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=4181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4181\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}