{"id":5637,"date":"2026-02-20T17:44:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5637"},"modified":"2026-02-20T17:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T17:44:04","slug":"wildcats-beat-eagle-peak-move-to-12-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5637","title":{"rendered":"Wildcats beat Eagle Peak, move to 12-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Upper Lake closes out league play Monday at home against Middletown<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; While the first meeting between these two teams was airtight, the rematch was pretty much all Upper Lake as the undefeated Wildcats rolled to a 55-38 victory over Eagle Peak in a middle school non-league A-level boys basketball game Thursday night in Upper Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Wildcats, now 12-0 on the season, edged Eagle Peak 35-32 earlier this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so proud of how both teams handled themselves this time around,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Dani Paige Gudmundson said. \u201cThe focus stayed on basketball, competing hard, and not getting caught up in anything else. That\u2019s maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After scoring 25 points in the first half, the Wildcats broke the game open with a 22-point third quarter while building a 47-23 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe started out a little timid and out of our usual fast-paced rhythm, but by the second quarter we began to settle in,\u201d Gudmundson said. \u201cThe third quarter is where it really clicked. That shift in confidence made all the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cayden Beecher led the Wildcats with 12 points while also pulling down five rebounds and collecting five steals. Xielan Florez added 10 points, five rebounds and five steals, Cam Allison finished with eight points, 11 rebounds and three assists, Gage Schramm had seven points, Dezmond Solomon contributed seven points, 13 rebounds and three assists, and Jose Delgado Beecher had five points, three rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake honors its eighth-graders on Monday during the team\u2019s final home game, a league contest against Middletown. The Lake County Junior High Athletic League postseason Tournament opens Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping to hold onto that No. 1 seed,\u201d Gudmunson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Lake closes out league play Monday at home against Middletown Lake County Sports on Facebook UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; While the first meeting between these two teams was airtight, the rematch was pretty much all Upper Lake as the undefeated Wildcats rolled to a 55-38 victory over Eagle Peak in a middle school non-league A-level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,79,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637"}],"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=5637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5638,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5637\/revisions\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}