{"id":4794,"date":"2025-11-22T19:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2025-11-22T19:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T19:12:49","slug":"trojans-earn-split-decision-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Trojans earn split decision in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Understrength Lower Lake varsity girls fall to Maria Carrillo, JVs rally for win<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SANTA ROSE &gt;&gt; Minus three guards who were unable to play in the season opener, the Lower Lake Trojans struggled against Maria Carrillo\u2019s full-court pressure and lost 56-21 to the Pumas in Friday night in Santa Rosa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt would have helped having them because the ones I had got gassed under the pressure we were facing, but it wouldn\u2019t have been a win, just a little more competitive,\u201d Lower Lake varsity girls basketball coach Shannon Tubbs said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Irianna Milano and Madelyn Garner were both attending a cheer camp in Florida while Brooke Watson had to work, all excused absences, according to Tubbs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCheer camp stuff they earned during football season,\u201d Tubbs said of Milano and Garner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maria Carrillo (3-0) was also playing its third game of the season, and they\u2019ve all been lopsided wins to this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve got a good team down there,\u201d Tubbs said of the Pumas. \u201cWe went up against at team that was very fundamentally sound.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While building a 35-11 halftime lead, the Pumas took advantage of numerous unforced errors by the Trojans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDefinitely a playoff-caliber team we faced for our first game,\u201d Tubbs said. \u201cWe will make adjustments and get better from this experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lily Milano and Jamiya Lee-Ayers finished with six points apiece to lead the Trojans. Mary Watson added four points, Aly Aguirre had three and Olivia Guralas two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake\u2019s varsity returns to action Thursday, Dec. 4 against Hoopa in the opening round of the third annual Sandy Mac Memorial Tournament at Cloverdale High School. Tip-off is 8 p.m. The tournament runs through Dec. 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior varsity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake\u2019s junior varsity fared much better, rallying from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter to edge Maria Carrillo 39-37 behind 16 points from Darleen Benefield and 15 from Samira Mendez. Eden Sparks added seven more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDefensive pressure by Darleen and Samira kept the ball on our side of the court the majority of the fourth (quarter),\u201d Lower Lake head coach Jessica Lackowski said. \u201cWe have a young team with only one returning sophomore, so there is still a lot to learn, but we\u2019re extremely proud of their effort tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understrength Lower Lake varsity girls fall to Maria Carrillo, JVs rally for win Lake County Sports on Facebook SANTA ROSE &gt;&gt; Minus three guards who were unable to play in the season opener, the Lower Lake Trojans struggled against Maria Carrillo\u2019s full-court pressure and lost 56-21 to the Pumas in Friday night in Santa Rosa. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794"}],"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=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}