{"id":7195,"date":"2026-09-19T22:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T22:07:20","slug":"upper-lake-clear-lake-jv-squads-tie-8-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7195","title":{"rendered":"Upper Lake, Clear Lake JV squads tie 8-8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Battle of undefeated teams goes right down to final seconds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; In a collision of undefeated junior varsity teams, the Upper Lake Cougars and Clear Lake Cardinals remain that way after battling to an 8-8 tie in North Central League I interlock action Friday in Upper Lake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All the scoring took place in the first half as both teams squandered scoring opportunities down the stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake (2-0-1) went up 8-0 on quarterback Isaia Pena\u2019s 3-yard run in the first quarter followed by Billy Pimentel\u2019s conversion run. Clear Lake (3-0-1) scored and also made its two-point conversion in the second quarter (names not reported).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake had a first-and-goal from Upper Lake\u2019s 2 during the game\u2019s final minute but couldn\u2019t punch the ball into the end zone, turning it over on downs at the 1. Upper Lake threw an interception moments later, but the Cardinals couldn\u2019t capitalize as the final seconds ticked off the clock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTo be able to hold them out like that was great,\u201d Upper Lake head coach Donnie Meri said. \u201cWe came up big on that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake earlier moved the ball down to the Clear Lake 5 only to be denied by the Cardinals\u2019 defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe both had our chances to win it,\u201d Meri said. \u201cIt was a great game. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m disappointed or happy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pena rushed for 129 yards on 15 carries, including a 36-yarder. He also went 7-for-14 passing for 62 yards. Brayan Vasquez carried the ball 10 times for 54 yards and Pimentel had four catches for 50 yards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On defense for Upper Lake, Angelo Macias had five tackles and a sack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake statistics were not reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upper Lake faces another undefeated team, Middletown (3-0), on Friday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle of undefeated teams goes right down to final seconds Lake County Sports on Facebook UPPER LAKE &gt;&gt; In a collision of undefeated junior varsity teams, the Upper Lake Cougars and Clear Lake Cardinals remain that way after battling to an 8-8 tie in North Central League I interlock action Friday in Upper Lake. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,110,26,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195"}],"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=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions\/7196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}