{"id":7016,"date":"2026-09-02T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7016"},"modified":"2026-09-02T03:22:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:22:56","slug":"goins-pick-six-lifts-mtown-jvs-to-22-14-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7016","title":{"rendered":"Goins&#8217; pick-six lifts M&#8217;town JVs to 22-14 win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Middletown knocks off Pierce Bears in 2026 season opener at Bill Foltmer Field<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Dre Goins had himself quite a game for the Middletown High School junior varsity football team in a 22-14 season-opening victory over the Pierce Bears on Friday evening at Bill&nbsp; Foltmer Field in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Goins\u2019 second touchdown of the game, a 65-yard interception return with a little more than a minute left to play, snapped a 14-all tie and carried the Mustangs to the win. He sealed the victory moments later with another interception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, Goins had a team-best 13 tackles. He also anchored Middletown\u2019s running game with 129 yards on nine carries and a touchdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Colton Rodrigues had Middletown\u2019s other touchdown. He finished with 27 yards on five carries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarterback Hudson Kelly completed two of five attempts for 19 yards, including a two-point conversion to Tanner Jordan following Goins\u2019 go-ahead touchdown late in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blake Pullman caught a 17-yard pass in the win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On defense, David Wallace had an interception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs have a bye this coming Friday before returning to action at home Sept. 11 against Willits at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middletown knocks off Pierce Bears in 2026 season opener at Bill Foltmer Field Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Dre Goins had himself quite a game for the Middletown High School junior varsity football team in a 22-14 season-opening victory over the Pierce Bears on Friday evening at Bill&nbsp; Foltmer Field in Middletown. Goins\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,26,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016"}],"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=7016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7019,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7016\/revisions\/7019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}