{"id":938,"date":"2024-09-24T05:56:25","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=938"},"modified":"2024-09-24T05:56:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T05:56:25","slug":"westshore-middletown-tie-6-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/?p=938","title":{"rendered":"Westshore, Middletown tie 6-6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>JV teams are tied for best record in Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; The junior varsity teams with the best record in the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League went head-to-head on Saturday at Don Owens Stadium in Lakeport. When the game was over, they still had the best record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Westshore Cardinals battled the Middletown Colts to a 6-6 draw in a game dominated by the two defenses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was mainly a defensive battle the whole game,\u201d Clear Lake head coach Sid Percaccio said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of the game\u2019s scoring took place in the second quarter. The Colts (3-0-1) jumped on the scoreboard first and went for two points on the conversion, but Pops Horne blocked the kick. Westshore (3-0-1) answered right back as Horne completed a 45-yard pass to Brady Liske, setting up Horne\u2019s 1-yard touchdown run on the next play, which came with no time remaining in the half. Like Middletown, Westshore\u2019s extra-point attempt failed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two teams spent the second half unable to make headway against the other\u2019s defense. Westshore punted with a little less than two minutes remaining in the game, pinning Middletown behind its 15-yard line. Westshore got one final chance with less than a minute remaining but was unable to score. After taking over on downs, the Colts elected to take a knee in the final seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LJ Hopkins carried the ball 17 times for 85 yards for Westshore. On defense, Jake Hayes led the team with 10 total tackles and a fumble recovery. MJ Knight had nine tackles, Leighton Butcher six tackles, and Damian McCloud, Aaron Wangberg, Chase Poland and Joseph Szupello three tackles each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Middletown statistics were not reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was a great game, a lot of really good defense was played by both sides and I hope to them again in the postseason,\u201d Percaccio said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westshore hosts Kelseyville on Saturday while Middletown hits the road to play Northshore in Upper Lake. Kickoff at both locations is set for 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JV teams are tied for best record in Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League LAKEPORT &gt;&gt; The junior varsity teams with the best record in the Mendo-Lake Empire Junior Football League went head-to-head on Saturday at Don Owens Stadium in Lakeport. When the game was over, they still had the best record. The Westshore Cardinals battled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938"}],"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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":939,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/938\/revisions\/939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briansumptersports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}