{"id":4323,"date":"2025-10-14T03:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T03:14:44","slug":"westshore-jvs-start-slow-finish-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4323","title":{"rendered":"Westshore JVs start slow, finish fast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>34-0 win over Northshore elevates Cardinals&#8217; season record to 7-1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; Despite throwing an interception on their first possession, the Westshore Cardinals pretty much had things their own way Saturday, shutting out the Northshore Cougars 34-0 in the junior varsity division of the Mendo-Lake Junior Football League at Upper Lake High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarterback LJ Hopkins, who threw the interception, came back to have a pretty nice game with a team-best 139 rushing yards and three touchdowns. Layton Butcher added another 58 yards on the ground with two TDs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 35-yard run by Brady Liske set up Westshore\u2019s first touchdown, a 20-yard Hopkins run during which he broke several tackles. Ethain White\u2019s fumble recovery at the Northshore 9-yard line with 1:45 left in the first half set up the Cardinals\u2019 next score, a Butcher 1-yard run with 25 seconds left. Hopkins\u2019 conversion kick made it 14-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westshore\u2019s defense came up with a three-and-out to open the second half and the Cardinals went up 20-0 on a 5-yard Hopkins run that capped a seven-play drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hopkins scored on a 5-yard run to make it 26-0, and Butcher\u2019s 10-yard sweep pushed the Cardinals\u2019 lead to 34-0 a Hopkins added the conversion kick. The mercy rule came into effect at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westshore\u2019s second-string defense kept Northshore out of the end zone with a goal-line stand led by Joseph Glass, John Chelleberg and AJ Wagner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Butcher led the Cardinals with 12 tackles, Hopkins added eight more, and Noah Cochrane had five tackles, including a sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe came out slow, but as the weather got cooler, we heated up,\u201d Westshore head coach Jeremy Hopkins said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake improved to 7-1 while Northshore fell to 2-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Cardinals return home next Saturday to play Sonoma (5-3). Northshore hosts Lower Lake (6-2). Both games start at 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>34-0 win over Northshore elevates Cardinals&#8217; season record to 7-1 Lake County Sports on Facebook UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; Despite throwing an interception on their first possession, the Westshore Cardinals pretty much had things their own way Saturday, shutting out the Northshore Cougars 34-0 in the junior varsity division of the Mendo-Lake Junior Football League at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,37,46,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323"}],"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=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}