{"id":4906,"date":"2025-12-05T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:36:13","slug":"mustangs-stumble-in-tourney-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=4906","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs stumble in tourney opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Calistoga beats Middletown 41-33 at Sutter Home Classic in St. Helena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. HELENA &gt;&gt; Everyone has a bad day now and then, and the Middletown Mustangs had a really bad one Thursday against Calistoga in the opening round of the Sutter Home Classic at St. Helena High School, falling 41-33 to the Wildcats in a first-round game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJust one of those games,\u201d a frustrated Middletown High School varsity boys basketball coach Jake Diehl said in reviewing the Mustangs effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s (making) adjustments with these kids right now,\u201d Diehl said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown (0-2) won\u2019t be at full strength until a handful of members of the football team are free to return to the court because of the Mustangs\u2019 extended postseason run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harrison Brown\u2019s 12 points, including two 3-pointers, led Middletown. Nalu Johnson added seven points. Willie Tadder and Cody Perez also had 3-pointers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown plays in the consolation semifinals Friday at 4 p.m. Tournament officials accommodated the Mustangs with their starting time so that they could return to Middletown in time to watch the football team\u2019s NorCal championship game against Redding Christian at 7:30 p.m. The tournament wraps up Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calistoga beats Middletown 41-33 at Sutter Home Classic in St. Helena Lake County Sports on Facebook ST. HELENA &gt;&gt; Everyone has a bad day now and then, and the Middletown Mustangs had a really bad one Thursday against Calistoga in the opening round of the Sutter Home Classic at St. Helena High School, falling 41-33 [&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\/4906"}],"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=4906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4907,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4906\/revisions\/4907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}