{"id":4830,"date":"2025-11-26T17:17:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:17:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:17:25","slug":"mtown-boys-return-to-court-win-60-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;town boys return to court, win 60-55"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mustangs notch Foundation Game victory against Calistoga<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CALISTOGA &gt;&gt; Stepping on the hardwood for the first time in almost nine months, an understrength Middletown High School varsity boys basketball team beat Calistoga 60-55 in a North Coast Section Foundation Game Tuesday night in Calistoga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Foundation Game results do not count toward a team\u2019s win-loss record. The games are fundraisers for the section\u2019s scholarship program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe were a little rusty,\u201d Middletown head coach Jake Diehl said. \u201cObviously we don\u2019 have a full squad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A half dozen Middletown players are still participating in the football playoffs, so the Mustangs could be without them for up to two more weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think we were taken back by the speed of the game (at the varsity level),\u201d Diehl said of his squad, especially the newer and more inexperienced players. \u201cThis was our first look at facing someone other than ourselves in practice. We\u2019ve got some tough games coming up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harrison Brown led the Mustangs with 13 points, including a 3-pointer. Willie Tadder added 12 points and Cody Perez had 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe had a wakeup call,\u201d Diehl said of his team\u2019s first action. \u201cWe\u2019ll get back to work tomorrow on the things we need to fix.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>JV game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown\u2019s junior varsity squad beat Calistoga 48-17 behind 18 points from Jovial Najd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe came right out with intensity,\u201d Middletown coach Mike Myers said. \u201cOur press was great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lucas Hernandez had eight points for the Mustangs while Koa Johnson pulled down eight rebounds and had six steals, both team highs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown\u2019s teams return home next Tuesday to play Maria Carrillo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustangs notch Foundation Game victory against Calistoga Lake County Sports on Facebook CALISTOGA &gt;&gt; Stepping on the hardwood for the first time in almost nine months, an understrength Middletown High School varsity boys basketball team beat Calistoga 60-55 in a North Coast Section Foundation Game Tuesday night in Calistoga. Foundation Game results do not count [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"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=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4831,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}