{"id":4504,"date":"2025-10-27T15:59:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4504"},"modified":"2025-10-27T15:59:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T15:59:40","slug":"lower-lake-routs-middletown-42-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4504","title":{"rendered":"Lower Lake routs Middletown 42-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Trojans draw Cloverdale in semifinal round of league playoffs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Closing out a 9-1 regular season, the Lower Lake Trojans took no prisoners in a 42-6 victory over the Middletown Colts on Saturday night at Bill Foltmer Field in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Braylen Fanucchi rushed for three touchdowns and Richard Occhino Jr. ran for a pair of scores as Lower Lake clinched the No. 2 seed in the varsity playoffs, which begin next Saturday. Lower Lake draws No. 3 Cloverdale (7-3) in the semifinals. Kickoff is 7:30 p.m. at Kelseyville High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe played well on both sides of the ball,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Mark Garner said. \u201cOur offensive and defense lines really showed up to play tonight. I couldn\u2019t be prouder of the job the whole team did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown set up Lower Lake\u2019s first touchdown with a high punt snap that Lower Lake recovered at the Colts\u2019 1-foot line. Occhino then punched it into the end zone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown answered on its next possession with a 72-yard touchdown run to tie the score at 6-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fanucchi capped a 48-yard drive with a 12-yard run to put the Trojans ahead to stay. Following a Middletown punt, Fanucchi scored his second touchdown, again on a 12-yard run, and the conversion kick was good to give the Trojans a 20-6 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown received the second-half kickoff but turned the ball over on downs. A short time later, Lower Lake\u2019s Wyatt Chalecki scored on a 40-yard run, and the conversion kick made it 28-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malakhi Brown\u2019s interception set up Fanucchi\u2019s third touchdown, a 10-yard run, for a 34-6 lead. Middletown again turned it over on downs before Occhino Jr. scored on a 4-yard drive with 5:36 left in the game. The conversion kick rounded out the scoring. The mercy rule came into play at that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Damion Giambra led the Trojans on defense with five tackles and a fumble recovery. Tony Velazquez added four tackles while Brown and Adriyan Diaz intercepted passes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TEAM NOTES:<\/strong> The Lower Lake-Cloverdale semifinal winner will play the Westshore (10-0) vs. Napa (6-4) semifinal winner on Nov. 8 in the varsity championship game. The Westshore vs. Napa game takes place Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in Lakeport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trojans draw Cloverdale in semifinal round of league playoffs Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Closing out a 9-1 regular season, the Lower Lake Trojans took no prisoners in a 42-6 victory over the Middletown Colts on Saturday night at Bill Foltmer Field in Middletown. Braylen Fanucchi rushed for three touchdowns and Richard Occhino [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,38,122,48,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504"}],"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=4504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4505,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4504\/revisions\/4505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}