{"id":7119,"date":"2026-09-13T21:46:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7119"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:46:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:46:55","slug":"northshore-varsity-falls-to-fort-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7119","title":{"rendered":"Northshore varsity falls to Fort Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cougars drop 31-0 decision on the road to Cubs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORT BRAGG &gt;&gt; A lack of practice time didn\u2019t do the Northshore varsity youth football team any favors \u2013 and neither did Fort Bragg \u2013 as the host Cubs defeated the Cougars 31-0 Saturday night in a Mendo-Lake Empire Youth Football League game at Fort Bragg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis game was a hard loss with only two practices,\u201d Northshore head coach Erik Sperber said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Lucas Fire burning in the mountains north of Upper Lake forced a limited practice schedule on the Cougars (0-2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was hard for us to stay mentally focused, which was our downfall,\u201d Sperber said. \u201cWe had a lot of mistakes in this game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Northshore\u2019s offense was held in check by Fort Bragg, there were some positives for the Cougars\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur defense played great and was able to make stops,\u201d Sperber said. \u201cOur corners and safeties had some big plays, but the lack of practice definitely showed up in the details on our special teams with multiple errors that kept us (pinned) deep on our side of the field.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the defensive highlights were five solo tackles, three assists and one pass defended by Erik Sperber II, three tackles, one assist and one pass defended by Grayson Pena, three tackles, one assist and one pass defended by Zachary Isaacson, and three tackles from Colton Myers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have a great group of athletes that are tough as nails,\u201d Sperber said. \u201cWe just need to focus on the little details, which had a big outcome in our game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northshore visits Cloverdale next Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cougars drop 31-0 decision on the road to Cubs Lake County Sports on Facebook FORT BRAGG &gt;&gt; A lack of practice time didn\u2019t do the Northshore varsity youth football team any favors \u2013 and neither did Fort Bragg \u2013 as the host Cubs defeated the Cougars 31-0 Saturday night in a Mendo-Lake Empire Youth Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,122,37,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119"}],"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=7119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7120,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7119\/revisions\/7120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}