{"id":4520,"date":"2025-10-28T18:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4520"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:59:15","slug":"lower-lake-pee-wee-team-beats-middletown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4520","title":{"rendered":"Lower Lake pee wee team beats Middletown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Trojans close regular season with 7-1-2 record, advance to playoffs Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; The pee wee Lower Lake Trojans wrapped up their regular-season schedule with a 13-6 win over the Middletown Colts on Saturday at Bill Foltmer Field in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake (7-1-2) advances to the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League semifinals this Saturday and will play Westshore (9-1) at 2:30 p.m. in Lakeport. The other semifinal has Napa (9-0-1) and Kelseyville (6-4) squaring off at 3:30 p.m. in Kelseyville. Semifinal winners meet for the league championship Nov. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey gave us a good fight and that\u2019s what we needed going into the playoffs,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Daniel Hooten said of the Colts (2-4-4). \u201cWe had a flat first half and had to dig deep to come out on top. It showed me the boys are ready for the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vinnie Steffen\u2019s 47-yard run to the Middletown 5-yard line set up the Trojans\u2019 first score, a 2-yard run by Maxxwell Wilkins. Steffen\u2019s 21-yard touchdown pass to Sebastian James accounted for the other Lower Lake score. Steffen added the conversion run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Steffen finished with 63 yards rushing while Wyatt Hooten added 31 yards and Wilkins 20 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hooten had high praise for his defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDefense was looking solid,\u201d Hooten said. \u201cDraco Benefield has really stepped it up in the second half of the season and is hungry for tackles.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benefield led the team with three solo tackles but also forced a fumble and did well in pass coverage, according to Hooten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defensive lineman Waylon Estep also stepped up, according to Hooten, finishing the game with two solo tackles and a sack that forced a fumble recovered by Wilkins. Another defensive lineman, Daion Manijvar, had two solo tackles and a fumble recovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James and Steffen added two solo tackles apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday\u2019s playoff semifinal marks the second meeting this season between Westshore and Lower Lake. Westshore won 18-0 on Sept. 20 at Don Owens Stadium in Lakeport, the site of this week\u2019s game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trojans close regular season with 7-1-2 record, advance to playoffs Saturday Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; The pee wee Lower Lake Trojans wrapped up their regular-season schedule with a 13-6 win over the Middletown Colts on Saturday at Bill Foltmer Field in Middletown. Lower Lake (7-1-2) advances to the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4521,"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\/4520"}],"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=4520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4522,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4520\/revisions\/4522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}