Matansa Football Club U12 and Tan Holdings Football Club U12 will duel for the championship of the NMIFA Cup boys and girls U12 division after turning back separate opponents last Wednesday at the Hopwood Junior High School field.<\/p>\n
Matansa took on Shirley\u2019s Football Club U12 and outlasted their fellow semifinalist, 2-1. Josh De Leon and Ronnel Ocanada accounted for the two goals of Matansa, while the lone net stab by Shirley\u2019s was courtesy of Edwin Kim.<\/p>\n
In the other semifinals, Tan Holdings shut out Matansa\u2019s U15 girls team, 2-0, to advance to the title game.<\/p>\n
Louie Bryle Calayag found the back of the net twice for Tan Holdings, first hitting pay dirt in the 24th minute before putting the game out of reach of Matansa\u2019s U15 girls with another goal in the 44th minute.<\/p>\n
[B]Women\u2019s League[\/B]<\/p>\n
In the 2012 Women\u2019s 11 Aside, Shirley\u2019s FC nipped Paire FC, 1-0, on a goal from Charlene Lizardo in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n
The other women\u2019s 11 game resulted in a forfeit in favor of MP United as Matansa FC didn\u2019t had enough players.<\/p>\n
[B]Men\u2019s League[\/B]<\/p>\n
In the 2012 Men\u2019s Spring League, Tan Holdings FC and Wild Bill\u2019s scored wins, while Sky and MP United finished in a draw.<\/p>\n
Tan Holdings beat Inter FC, 3-1, with Joe Miller nearly completing a hat trick. He scored the game\u2019s first goal in the 8th minute and added another seven minutes later.<\/p>\n
It would be 3-0 when Jun Jie Cui struck in the 52nd minute before Inter averted a shutout when Peter Loken scored in the 81st.<\/p>\n
Wild Bill\u2019s, meanwhile, threw everything but the kitchen sink on Shirley\u2019s FC and won in a lopsided score of 6-0.<\/p>\n
Scoring goals for Wild Bill\u2019s were Jeeraphong Thoensaket (twice), Lar Wangpaya, Thanyakorn Konkoed, Ian Iimov, and Norman Camacho.<\/p>\n
Sky and MP, meanwhile, matched each other\u2019s goals and went home tied. Zheng Xu scored two goals for Sky, while Young Ha Huang and Ja Hyun Lee accounted for the other two.<\/p>\n
Jehn Joyner, meanwhile, completed a hat trick for MP United with Yishan Wang credited for the other goal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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