{"id":5121,"date":"2025-12-28T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2025-12-28T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:09:26","slug":"knights-fall-behind-early-lose-to-eureka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5121","title":{"rendered":"Knights fall behind early, lose to Eureka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Kelseyville boys spot Loggers 31-5 lead in first half of non-league game<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; One week after playing for the championship in their own tournament, the Kelseyville Knights scored just five points in the first half of a 55-34 non-league loss to the Eureka Loggers in varsity boys basketball action Saturday afternoon at Kelseyville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe scored just one point in the first quarter,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Chaze Russell said of his team\u2019s rough start. \u201cThe shots were not falling. Even Gordon (Astrup) struggled inside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Astrup, the Knights\u2019 All-Tournament player last week during the 53<sup>rd<\/sup> annual Stokes Tournament, failed to score in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville (4-7) trailed 31-5 by halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTheir defense dictated our offense,\u201d Russell added. \u201cWe were not finishing around the basket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jacob Amendola\u2019s 10 points led the Knights, who are one of the few Lake County teams in action off the two-week Christmas break. Nick Arredando added nine points and Jair Inostroza Carrillo had seven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelseyville hits the road Friday to play Fortuna. Junior varsity action tips off at 4:30 p.m. with the varsity game to follow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junior varsity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hugh O\u2019Boyle and Chris Salmina hit some big 3-pointers down the stretch as the Kelseyville JV boys team beat Eureka 70-61 to climb over the .500 mark at 4-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a good game to see where we\u2019re at,\u201d Kelseyville head coach Stan Weiper said. \u201cThe kids responded pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Darin Sprague led the Knights with 32 points. The freshman has scored at least 17 points in all seven of Kelseyville\u2019s games to date. O\u2019Boyle added another 20 points and Salmina had 12, including two 3-pointers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Boyle\u2019s 3-pointer late in the game pushed the Knights\u2019 lead to five points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a big one,\u201d Weiper said of the shot. \u201cHe really stepped up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eureka led 34-31 at halftime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelseyville boys spot Loggers 31-5 lead in first half of non-league game Lake County Sports on Facebook KELSEYVILLE &gt;&gt; One week after playing for the championship in their own tournament, the Kelseyville Knights scored just five points in the first half of a 55-34 non-league loss to the Eureka Loggers in varsity boys basketball action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121"}],"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=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5122,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions\/5122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}