{"id":5626,"date":"2026-02-18T23:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5626"},"modified":"2026-02-18T23:18:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:18:54","slug":"wildcats-hold-off-vikings-for-42-35-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5626","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats hold off Vikings for 42-35 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cayden Beecher&#8217;s 16 points power Upper Lake A boys basketball team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; The Upper Lake Wildcats knocked off the Terrace Middle School Vikings 42-35 in A-level boys basketball action Tuesday in Upper Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake led 12-10 after one quarter, 21-14 at halftime and 25-18 through three quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both teams lit up the scoreboard in the final period, scoring 17 points apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was a true defensive battle,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Dani Paige Gudmundson said of the first three quarters. \u201cIt could have swung either way at any moment if we let up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wildcats were minus Jose Beecher, one of their top players, but Gudmundson said the other players stepped up to fill the void.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m incredibly proud of the effort and resilience they showed,\u201d Gudmundson said of her players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cayden Beecher led the Wildcats with s with16 points, six rebounds, four assists and eight steals while teammate Dezmond Solomon added a double-double of 10 points and 12 rebounds. Other leaders were Bennett Guardino with eight points and 11 rebounds, and Gage Schramm had five points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGreat team win and a great example of what happens when everyone steps up and plays their role,\u201d Gudmundson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terrace scoring was not reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cayden Beecher&#8217;s 16 points power Upper Lake A boys basketball team Lake County Sports on Facebook UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; The Upper Lake Wildcats knocked off the Terrace Middle School Vikings 42-35 in A-level boys basketball action Tuesday in Upper Lake. Upper Lake led 12-10 after one quarter, 21-14 at halftime and 25-18 through three quarters. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,79,55,50,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626"}],"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=5626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5627,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5626\/revisions\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}