{"id":178344,"date":"2026-02-14T21:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178344\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T21:39:10","slug":"oakland-middle-finishes-fourth-in-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/178344\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Middle finishes fourth in state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mainstreetmediatn.com\/author\/JEFF+NEAL\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Author Byline View&#039;, &#039;JEFF NEAL&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JEFF NEAL<\/a><br \/>nealjeff061@gmail.com\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/oaklandmiddle.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1805477\" style=\"width:129px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Chargers dropped the consolation game in the TSSAA Middle School State Championships, 42-33, to Mt. Juliet at Rockvale High School ending to end their season at 20-2.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Bears jumped out to a 7-0 lead and extended it to 12-4 at the end of one period. Mt. Juliet\u2019s length bothered the Oakland guards, who found it hard to get around, pass or shoot over them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMt. Juliet is a long and athletic team and it took us a few minutes to figure out what we were going to do,\u201d Oakland coach Eric Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland went down double figures before half, with the biggest deficit being a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>The Chargers couldn\u2019t stop Hunter Hamilton, who scored 14 of his 21 points for the Golden Bears in the second half as they kept Oakland at bay.<\/p>\n<p>The closest the Chargers got was five at 38-33 with less than one minute to play. In the end, foul shooting and turnovers did Oakland in as it had a dozen turnovers and shot 9 of 20 from the foul line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to make your free throws on a big stage like this and we didn\u2019t make them,\u201d Moore said.<\/p>\n<p>BOX SCORE<\/p>\n<p>Oakland (33): Brennon Thomas 12, Deangelo Kinnear 7, Kyreese Leavy 7, Titus Holloway 5, Maddox Lillis 2.<\/p>\n<p>Mt. Juliet (42): Hunter Hamilton 21, Nolan Plummer 6, Vin Bell 5 Hunter Radley 4, Isaiah Norman 2, Ben Lamb 2, Carter Rivas 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEFF NEALnealjeff061@gmail.com The Oakland Chargers dropped the consolation game in the TSSAA Middle School State Championships, 42-33, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":{"0":"post-178344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oakland","8":"tag-oakland","9":"tag-oakland-headlines","10":"tag-oakland-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}