{"id":5421,"date":"2026-01-29T19:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2026-01-29T19:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T19:27:09","slug":"ul-middle-school-boys-roll-past-mtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"UL middle school boys roll past M&#8217;town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Guardino, Solomon record double-doubles in 61-17 league victory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Upper Lake Middle School\u2019s A boys basketball team built a big halftime lead while knocking off Middletown Middle School 61-17 on Wednesday evening in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The undefeated Wildcats (3-0 league, 7-0 overall) took a 30-7 lead into halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe led 30-7 at halftime, but I felt we were still settling in during the first half and not playing at our usual pace,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Dani Paige Gudmundson said. \u201cThat said, the boys stayed disciplined and focused on taking care of the basketball. After committing 16 turnovers in our previous game, we cut that number down to just seven, which was a big improvement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kayden Beecher led the way with 22 points, nine rebounds, five assists and three steals, Bennett Guardino added 16 points and 12 rebounds, Dezmond Solomon had 13 points, 17 rebounds and four steals, and Jose Delgado Beecher chipped in 10 points and nine assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEveryone saw minutes on the floor, and it was a true team effort,\u201d Gudmundson said. \u201cI was especially proud of our defensive discipline, and we\u2019re looking to carry that momentum into Monday night\u2019s game against Obsidian (at Upper Lake).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardino, Solomon record double-doubles in 61-17 league victory Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Upper Lake Middle School\u2019s A boys basketball team built a big halftime lead while knocking off Middletown Middle School 61-17 on Wednesday evening in Middletown. The undefeated Wildcats (3-0 league, 7-0 overall) took a 30-7 lead into halftime. \u201cWe led [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,79,40,50,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421"}],"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=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5422,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}