{"id":5762,"date":"2026-03-04T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5762"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T18:18:09","slug":"trojans-cougars-drop-baseball-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5762","title":{"rendered":"Trojans, Cougars drop baseball games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Lower Lake falls 9-2 to Maxwell, Upper Lake drops one to Swett<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOWER LAKE >> Too many errors in the field proved to be Lower Lake\u2019s undoing in a 9-2 non-league varsity baseball loss to Maxwell on Tuesday afternoon in Lower Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have to clean up the errors,\u201d Lower Lake head coach Mike Huffman said as the Trojans (2-1) dropped their first game of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maxwell (1-0) roughed up Lower Lake starters Jordan Rohrbacker for six runs in one-plus inning of work. He walked three and struck out one before giving way to reliever Brody Shields. Adrian Negrete pitched the final three innings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Panthers scored twice in the top of the first, four times in the second and once in the third to go up 7-0. Lower Lake closed to 7-2 with single runs in the fourth and fifth before Maxwell tacked on two insurance runs in the sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lower Lake had a run in with the bases loaded in the bottom of the fifth and was one hit away from making a game of it, but a comebacker ended the threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was happy with how the boys finished,\u201d Huffman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashton Hartmann went 2-for-3 for Lower Lake. Negrete, AJ Myer, Nick Nell and Eric Alonso had the Trojans\u2019 other hits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lower Lake plays Thursday in Willits at 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other baseball action Tuesday:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swett 17, Upper Lake 2 (5 inn.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At Crockett, the Upper Lake Cougars took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first inning on a two-run double by Jimmy Sanchez, pretty much the only highlight in a five-inning loss to the Warriors, who visit Upper Lake for another game March 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re as bad as we looked,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Don Meri said. \u201cWe made some mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Swett team that beat North Central League I title contender Clear Lake 3-1 last week simply overwhelmed Upper Lake, scoring five times in the bottom of the first, twice in the second, nine times in the third and once in the fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re a good team, and they took at easy on us,\u201d Meri said. \u201cI thanked their coach after the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Losing pitcher George Rahmer worked the first inning before leaving the game with a sore arm. He allowed two hits, struck out one and walked two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI threw three other guys one inning a piece,\u201d Meri said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides Sanchez\u2019s two-run double, the only other Upper Lake hit was a single by Landen Robinson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Swett improved to 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lower Lake falls 9-2 to Maxwell, Upper Lake drops one to Swett Lake County Sports on Facebook LOWER LAKE >> Too many errors in the field proved to be Lower Lake\u2019s undoing in a 9-2 non-league varsity baseball loss to Maxwell on Tuesday afternoon in Lower Lake. \u201cWe have to clean up the errors,\u201d Lower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,84,18,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762"}],"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=5762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5763,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5762\/revisions\/5763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}