{"id":5022,"date":"2025-12-15T19:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:36:49","slug":"mountain-vista-wins-consolation-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5022","title":{"rendered":"Mountain Vista wins consolation title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mezmariaya Ellis top large field to win Hot Shoot Competition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CRESCENT CITY &gt;&gt; Mountain Vista Middle School\u2019s A girls basketball team brought home the consolation championship in the AA division from the 51<sup>st<\/sup> annual Jaycees Tournament held Friday and Saturday in Crescent City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lancers\u2019 lone loss was a 32-25 setback to Grenada, which went on to win the AA championship, in a first-round game. The Lancers took a one-point lead into halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUltimately, Grenada fought back, making very precise passes and calculated shots and pulling out the game in the second half,\u201d Mountain Vista coach Shaun Robinson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mezmariya Ellis led the Lancers with nine points, Samaya Ellis added six and Jodeci Meadows had five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountain Vista bounced back in the consolation semifinals with a 29-18 over Middletown Middle School. The Lancers pulled away over the final quarters, turning a one-point halftime lead into a double-digit victory. Mezmariya Ellis and Meadows had nine points apiece in the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAggressive defense and couple of well-timed 3-point shots helped the Lancers break the game open in the second half,\u201d Robinson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountain Vista edged Fort Bragg 32-28 in the consolation championship game. Down by two points at halftime, the Lancers pushed ahead by as many as seven points with two minutes left in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaylee Robinson led the Lancers with 10 points while Meadows and Samaya Ellis had nine apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meadows and Mezmariya Ellis were named to the All-Tournament team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mountain Vista also entered Mezmariya Ellis into the Hot Shoot Competition, one of 48 participants. She scored a tournament-high 40 points within the two-minute contest window to win the AA division and overall title. She received a plaque and new Wilson game ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mezmariaya Ellis top large field to win Hot Shoot Competition Lake County Sports on Facebook CRESCENT CITY &gt;&gt; Mountain Vista Middle School\u2019s A girls basketball team brought home the consolation championship in the AA division from the 51st annual Jaycees Tournament held Friday and Saturday in Crescent City. The Lancers\u2019 lone loss was a 32-25 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,63,49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022"}],"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=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5037,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions\/5037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}