{"id":7381,"date":"2026-10-10T21:04:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7381"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:04:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:04:55","slug":"middletown-jv-football-improves-to-5-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7381","title":{"rendered":"Middletown JV football improves to 5-0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Mustangs use big first half to knock off St. Helena 43-6 in NCL I South opener<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Kenya Rose returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown as the Middletown High School junior varsity football team beat the St. Helena Saints 43-6 in the North Central League I South opener for both teams Friday at Bill Foltmer Field in Middletown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown (1-0 league, 5-0 overall) opened up a 36-0 halftime lead that increased to 43-0 in the third quarter before St. Helena scored with a little less than five minutes left to play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs\u2019 22-point first quarter included a 70-yard touchdown run by Dre Goins (six carries for 100 yards) and a Lucas Hernandez 9-yard scoring run. Hernandez had only three carries but scored twice, including a 5-yard TD run that pushed Middletown\u2019s lead to 30-0 in the second quarter. Tanner Jordan capped the scoring in the first half with a 5-yard run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown emptied its bench early against the Saints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs picked up their final six points in the third quarter on a Hudson Kelley 1-yard run, which was followed by a Luis Calderon extra-point kick, Middletown\u2019s first successful extra-point kick this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelley also had a pair of conversion runs while Colton Rodrigues (three carries for 49 yards) added another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blake Pullman\u2019s five total tackles led the Middletown defense while Hernandez and Arden Bernal had four apiece. Bernal also had one of the Mustangs\u2019 two fumble recoveries. Rodrigues had the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown is off until Oct. 23 when it travels to Lower Lake for a 5 p.m. game against the Trojans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mustangs use big first half to knock off St. Helena 43-6 in NCL I South opener Lake County Sports on Facebook MIDDLETOWN &gt;&gt; Kenya Rose returned the opening kickoff 97 yards for a touchdown as the Middletown High School junior varsity football team beat the St. Helena Saints 43-6 in the North Central League I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,26,19,59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381"}],"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=7381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7383,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7381\/revisions\/7383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}