{"id":5956,"date":"2026-03-18T19:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5956"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T19:33:06","slug":"mtown-suffers-4-1-tennis-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=5956","title":{"rendered":"M&#8217;town suffers 4-1 tennis setback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Minus No. 1 singles player, Mustangs forced to change things up against Mendocino<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MENDOCINO &gt;&gt; Middletown High School\u2019s tennis team, which has owned the Coastal Mountain Conference tennis ranks for the past couple of seasons, fell 4-1 to the Mendocino Cardinals on Tuesday in Mendocino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The back-to-back conference champions, who were without their No. 1 singles player because of illness, managed to win only in second doubles where Nalu Johnson and Louis Pamatz prevailed 6-2, 6-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe lost to a good Mendocino team,\u201d Middletown head coach Tony Hart said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With No. 1 Will Hoskins unable to go, Middletown had to shift people around. Harrison Brown moved up to No. 1 singles and dropped a 6-2, 6-3 decision to Max Oatney. Anthony Lopez moved into Brown\u2019s No. 2 singles slot and fell 6-1, 6-0 to Enzo Abuliak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown had to forfeit at No. 3 singles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a hard-fought No. 1 doubles match, Middletown\u2019s Leland and Jasiah Pike dropped a 7-5, 6-4 decision to Gabi McElrory and Leo Hinkley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey were better than us today, that is for sure,\u201d Hart said of the victorious Cardinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams meet again April 10 at the Hidden Valley Lake courts. Middletown returns to action Friday at home against Willits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minus No. 1 singles player, Mustangs forced to change things up against Mendocino Lake County Sports on Facebook MENDOCINO &gt;&gt; Middletown High School\u2019s tennis team, which has owned the Coastal Mountain Conference tennis ranks for the past couple of seasons, fell 4-1 to the Mendocino Cardinals on Tuesday in Mendocino. The back-to-back conference champions, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,19,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956"}],"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=5956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5956\/revisions\/5957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}