{"id":4540,"date":"2025-10-29T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:16:46","slug":"cougars-take-first-set-in-playoff-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4540","title":{"rendered":"Cougars take first set in playoff loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Upper Lake throws early scare at Redwood Christian in Division 5 opener<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SAN LORENZO &gt;&gt; No. 15 seed Upper Lake got the jump on No. 2 seed Redwood Christian in the first set Tuesday night during the opening round of the North Coast Section&nbsp; Division 5 volleyball playoffs in San Lorenzo, but the Eagles recovered for a 23-25, 25-15, 25-17, 25-22 victory that will carry them in Saturday\u2019s quarterfinals against Encinal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake, the fifth-place team in the North Central League I this season, finishes the season 10-10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe went to Redwood Christian and played some really good volleyball \u2026 and some not-so-good volleyball,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Dani Paige Gudmundson said. \u201cWe came out strong in the first set, confident and connected. Then something shifted and, for whatever reason, we couldn\u2019t quite find our rhythm again until the fourth (set). It\u2019s hard because I know we\u2019re capable of more. We should be heading into the next round, and that stings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alyssa John finished with 16 kills, nine blocks, 14 digs and six service points in the loss while Camila Martin had 18 assists and four service points. Aimee Schaefers added eight kills, 21 blocks, three digs, three service points and one ace. and Rylee Jones had 10 service points, four digs and one assist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis one\u2019s going to sit with me for a while,\u201d Gudmundson said of the season-ending loss. \u201cBut I\u2019m proud, proud of the team, proud of the growth, and proud of the fight we\u2019ve shown all season. I\u2019m especially going to miss my seniors. I\u2019m just grateful I got one more night on the court with them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Lake throws early scare at Redwood Christian in Division 5 opener Lake County Sports on Facebook SAN LORENZO &gt;&gt; No. 15 seed Upper Lake got the jump on No. 2 seed Redwood Christian in the first set Tuesday night during the opening round of the North Coast Section&nbsp; Division 5 volleyball playoffs in San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,86,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540"}],"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=4540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4540\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}