{"id":4604,"date":"2025-11-03T06:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2025-11-03T06:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T06:05:34","slug":"varsity-trojans-earn-another-shot-at-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4604","title":{"rendered":"Varsity Trojans earn another shot at Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Lower Lake advances to championship game with 24-8 win over Cloverdale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; The varsity Lower Lake Trojans are headed to the championship game of the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League after beating the Cloverdale Chargers 24-8 Saturday night at Kelseyville High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake (10-1) plays undefeated Westshore (11-0) for the championship next Saturday, hoping to avenge a 24-0 regular-season loss to the Cardinals in late September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a really hard-fought game,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Mark Garner said of the semifinal win over Cloverdale. \u201cCloverdale is a really good team and they came ready to play. I was really proud of our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trojan scored the game\u2019s final 24 points after Cloverdale took the opening kickoff and marched 72 yards for a touchdown and the conversion kick to go up 8-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake drove deep into Cloverdale territory before turning the ball over on downs. The Trojans then forced a punt before marching 75 yards for a touchdown as Michael Garner and Braylen Fanucchi connected on a 41-yard score. The conversion kick tied the game at 8-8, which was the halftime score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake moved in front to stay on its second possession of the second half on a 77-yard touchdown drive capped by Wyatt Chalecki\u2019s 2-yard run in the opening seconds of the fourth quarter. The conversion kick gave Lower Lake a 16-8 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Trojans recovered a Cloverdale fumble to set up their final score, a Fanucchi 2-yard run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloverdale\u2019s final possession ended with a sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey played tough all night,\u201d Garner said of the Trojans. \u201cOur coaches have done a tremendous job preparing our players every week.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anchoring Lower Lake\u2019s defense against Cloverdale were Damion Gambria with five tackles and a sack, Jaymen Bagsby with four tackles and a sack, and Adriyan Diaz with four tackles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Lake advances to championship game with 24-8 win over Cloverdale Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; The varsity Lower Lake Trojans are headed to the championship game of the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League after beating the Cloverdale Chargers 24-8 Saturday night at Kelseyville High School. Lower Lake (10-1) plays undefeated Westshore (11-0) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,38,122,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604"}],"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=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4605,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/4605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}