{"id":5312,"date":"2026-01-20T18:19:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5312"},"modified":"2026-01-20T18:19:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T18:19:27","slug":"trojans-battle-hard-in-70-61-non-league-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5312","title":{"rendered":"Trojans battle hard in 70-61 non-league loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Sanders comes off Lower Lake bench to score team-leading 23 points <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>SONOMA &gt;&gt; The first two quarters couldn\u2019t have been much different Monday night as the Lower Lake Trojans and Sonoma Valley Dragons squared off in a non-league varsity boys basketball game in Sonoma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dragons outscored the Trojans 20-6 in the first quarter, only for Lower Lake to answer with a 20-5 second quarter. In the end, Sonoma emerged with a hard-fought 70-61 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSonoma Valley came out and got a 20-point lead before we scored,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Jay Jakubowski said. \u201cOnce we decided to play as a team, we started to chip away at their lead.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Added Jakubowski, \u201cEventually we took the lead but couldn\u2019t get the over hump as it took us so much energy just to catch back up. The kids played tough. We ended up getting out in space and making some clutch shots.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake carried a 52-47 lead into the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zackquez Sanders came off the bench to lead the Trojans with 23 points, including five 3-pointers, and Brody Shields added 14 points with four 3-pointers. Noah Hakala added seven points and nine rebounds, and Raijhier McKneely also had seven points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cZack was a huge energy boost off the bench,\u201d Jakubowski said. \u201cHe came in and I think hit our 3s in a row. We just ended up making some bad decisions late against their pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake resumes its North Central League I schedule home Tuesday against Cloverdale as part of a three-game set that begins with the junior varsity boys at 5 p.m. The varsity girls tip off at 6:30 p.m. and the varsity boys follow at 8 p.m. Cloverdale doesn\u2019t have a JV girls team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanders comes off Lower Lake bench to score team-leading 23 points Lake County Sports on Facebook SONOMA &gt;&gt; The first two quarters couldn\u2019t have been much different Monday night as the Lower Lake Trojans and Sonoma Valley Dragons squared off in a non-league varsity boys basketball game in Sonoma. The Dragons outscored the Trojans 20-6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12,18,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312"}],"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=5312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5313,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5312\/revisions\/5313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}