{"id":784,"date":"2024-09-10T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2024-09-10T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T00:01:52","slug":"the-battle-of-the-lake-goes-to-trojans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Battle of the Lake&#8221; goes to Trojans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Lower Lake varsity caps three-game sweep with 33-20 win<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lake County Sports on Facebook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; \u201cThe Battle of the Lake\u201d trophy goes to the Lower Lake Trojans, who won all three of their Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League games with the Northshore Cougars on Saturday at Gordon Sadler Field in Lower Lake, including a 33-20 victory in the varsity game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roy Percoats scored four straight touchdowns for Lower Lake. In addition to a 71-yard kickoff return that put the Trojans ahead 14-7 at halftime, Percoats rushed for three more touchdowns in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ismael Orozco put the Trojans on the scoreboard first with an 82-yard kickoff return to open the game. He also kicked the conversion, which counts as two points in youth football, to give Lower Lake an 8-0 lead. Northshore answered with a touchdown drive to close to 8-7, but Percoats returned the ensuing kickoff for a score to put Lower Lake back on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur offensive line did a good job for us all night,\u201d Lower Lake coach Mark Garner said. \u201cThey definitely led the way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Orozco anchored Lower Lake\u2019s defense with 11 tackles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCornerback Wyatt Chalecki also had an outstanding night on defense,\u201d Garner said. \u201cHe has really developed as a player and a leader for us this season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lower Lake has a bye week this coming weekend while Northshore (2-1) returns home Saturday to play Fort Bragg at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Battle of the Lake\u201d trophy is decided by who wins at least two out of the three games between the Lower Lake and Northshore pee wees, junior varsity and varsity teams. The Trojans won all three games this year. The pee wees beat Northshore 34-0 and the JVs won 26-25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lower Lake varsity caps three-game sweep with 33-20 win Lake County Sports on Facebook LOWER LAKE &gt;&gt; \u201cThe Battle of the Lake\u201d trophy goes to the Lower Lake Trojans, who won all three of their Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League games with the Northshore Cougars on Saturday at Gordon Sadler Field in Lower Lake, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}