{"id":6635,"date":"2026-05-12T18:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6635"},"modified":"2026-05-12T18:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T18:47:17","slug":"eagles-spoil-mustangs-league-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=6635","title":{"rendered":"Eagles spoil Mustangs&#8217; league finale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Middletown falls behind early, can&#8217;t recover in 7-5 setback to Cloverdale<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Missing an opportunity to finish .500 in league play, the Middletown Mustangs dropped a 7-5 decision to the Cloverdale Eagles on Monday at Wes Martin Field in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the North Central League I finale for Middletown (6-8 league, 10-11 overall) while Cloverdale (3-9, 7-11) still has a league doubleheader remaining with Lower Lake on Wednesday beginning at 1 p.m. in Cloverdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cloverdale scored twice in the top of the first inning and held the lead the rest of the way. The Eagles, who hit three home runs, held leads of 4-0 and 7-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cody Perez worked 3 1\/3 innings and took the loss. He allowed four runs (two earned) on four hits, struck out two and walked none.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jon Hawkins (2-for-4, triple) and Hunter Karp (2-for-3, RBI) led the Mustangs at the plate. Hayden Xavier (1-for-2) and Madden Sutton (0-for-2) also drove in runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Evan Robledo, a sophomore, homered twice for Cloverdale. Robledo connected for a solo shot in the top of the fourth and a two-run blast in the seventh. Oren Fichtelberg, a junior, hit a solo home run in the fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middletown falls behind early, can&#8217;t recover in 7-5 setback to Cloverdale Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Missing an opportunity to finish .500 in league play, the Middletown Mustangs dropped a 7-5 decision to the Cloverdale Eagles on Monday at Wes Martin Field in Middletown. It was the North Central League I finale for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,84,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635"}],"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=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6638,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/6638"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}