{"id":7656,"date":"2026-11-12T18:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:50:03","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:50:03","slug":"clhs-boys-advance-to-division-3-title-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=7656","title":{"rendered":"CLHS boys advance to Division 3 title game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Cardinals use big second half to roll past Tomales Braves in semifinals, 5-2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; Whatever momentum the Tomales Braves thought they had after scoring two late goals in the first half to grab a 2-1 lead against the Clear Lake Cardinals didn\u2019t stick around long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake answered with two early second-half goals to regain the lead before going on to beat the Tomales Braves 5-2 in the semifinals of the North Coast Section Division 3 boys soccer playoffs Wednesday night at Don Owens Stadium in Lakeport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The No. 2 seeded Cardinals (13-7-4) advance to the Division 3 championship game Saturday against the No. 1-seeded Mendocino Cardinals (16-7) at 2 p.m. in Mendocino.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake scored the first goal in Wednesday\u2019s semifinal battle and held a 1-0 lead until Tomales (9-10) scored two quick goals to push in front by halftime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was all Clear Lake in the second half. The Cardinals had the lead back, 3-2, nine minutes into the second half. They added to their lead from there while the Clear Lake defense held the Braves scoreless in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Clear Lake and Tomales finished in their respective leagues during the regular season \u2013 Clear Lake in the NCL I and Tomales in the NCL II. Mendocino placed fourth in the NCL II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clear Lake scoring and other game details were not reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinals use big second half to roll past Tomales Braves in semifinals, 5-2 Lake County Sports on Facebook LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; Whatever momentum the Tomales Braves thought they had after scoring two late goals in the first half to grab a 2-1 lead against the Clear Lake Cardinals didn\u2019t stick around long. Clear Lake answered with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,16,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656"}],"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=7656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7656\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}