{"id":231306,"date":"2016-07-01T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T20:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=231306"},"modified":"2016-07-01T06:00:30","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T20:00:30","slug":"schuler-scores-cnmi-loss-chinese-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/schuler-scores-cnmi-loss-chinese-taipei\/","title":{"rendered":"Schuler scores in CNMI loss to Chinese-Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-231306 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/schuler-scores-cnmi-loss-chinese-taipei\/eaffpixuse\/'>eaffpixuse<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231314'>\n\t\t\t\tKirk Schuler, seen here performing drills during the CNMI Men\u2019s National Team\u2019s practice last Wednesday, scored in the Blue Ayuyus 1-8 loss to Chinese-Taipei during their debut game in the EAFF E-1 Football Championships 2017 Round 1 yesterday at the Guam Football Association National Training Center in Dededo. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/schuler-scores-cnmi-loss-chinese-taipei\/eaffpixwomens\/'>eaffpixwomens<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-231315'>\n\t\t\t\tThe CNMI\u2019s Guinevere Borja uses her knee to stop the ball during a practice session at the Oleai Sports Complex Field last week. Borja and company will meet Macau in their first game today. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Reliever Kirk Schuler saved the CNMI Men\u2019s National Team from a shutout loss to Chinese-Taipei after scoring in the second half of the lopsided match in the EAFF E-1 Football Championships 2017 Round 1 yesterday at the Guam Football Association National Training Center in Dededo.<\/p>\n<p>Schuler, who came to play early in the final half, scored off a header in the 90th minute from Joel Fruit\u2019s free kick  and his goal came after Chinese-Taipei opened a 7-0 advantage.  The Taiwanese went on to take an 8-1 victory as Chieh-Hsun Lin found the back of the net two minutes after Schuler put the CNMI on the board.<\/p>\n<p>It was Lin\u2019s third straight goal in the second half with his first two recorded in the 63rd and 81st minute.  The Chinese-Taipei\u2019s starting midfielder had a total of four goals as he knocked in one in the 40th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Before Chinese-Taipei\u2019s goals rush, the CNMI managed to hold its ground on defense in the majority of the first half as the former registered its first goal in the 30th minute off forward Chun-Ching Wu\u2019s shot. Six minutes later, defender Wei-Chuan Chen made it a 2-0 lead, while Lin earned his first goal before another defender, Yi-Wei Chen, closed out for the Taiwanese in the last minute of the opening half for their promising 4-0 advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese-Taipei broke away further in the second half with Lin\u2019s string of goals and another one from Wu (56th minute).<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, the CNMI is pressured to win its last two games\u2014against Macau on Saturday and versus Mongolia on Monday\u2014to stay in contention. Only the top finisher in the four-nation tournament will advance to Round 2, which will be played in November this year.<\/p>\n<p>Macau and Mongolia had their first game last Wednesday and their duel ended in a 2-2 draw. Bayarjargal Oyunbat scored a pair of goals for Mongolia, while Macau drew one goal each from Ka Hang Leong and Filipe Miguel Cordeiro Duarte.<\/p>\n<p>In its debut last night, the Blue Ayuyus had Fruit, goalkeeper Johan Noetzel, Clayton Izuka, Trey Dunn, Enrico Del Rosario, Jehn Joyner, Jonathan Takano, Peter Loken, Joe Miller, and Michah Griffin as starters. Completing the team are Darin Kaizer, Hunter Jewell, Evan Belcher, Alan Hinson, James Ermitanio, and Chris Aninzo.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Women\u2019s team debuts vs Macau today<\/strong><br \/>\nThe CNMI Women\u2019s National Team will play its first match today against Macau.<\/p>\n<p>Game time is at 5pm.<\/p>\n<p>The Luem Khen Koo-coached squad arrived in Guam last Tuesday and had a chance to practice for a couple of days and watch Macau\u2019s first game against Guam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe women\u2019s team had settled down in Guam and we watched the Macau-Guam game. We want to see our competition and understand what we\u2019re up against,\u201d team manager Angie Ito said.<\/p>\n<p>The Commonwealth women\u2019s crew is composed of team captain Gabrielle Race, Alexa Vergara, Chevy Kate Alipio, Elaine Enriquez, Sarah Allen, Bernadette Horey, Jeralyn and Jeraldine Castillo, Lyka Sally, Mikky Vargas, Guinevere Borja, Chloe Salvosa, Dianne Pablo, Gillian Villagomez, De Jan Muna, Krizzel Mae Tuason, Carl Mae Ballesteros, and Taylor Knecht.<\/p>\n<p>The group will be facing a Macau side that is reeling from a 0-5 loss to the host country.<\/p>\n<p>Four different players scored in Guam\u2019s shutout win over the former Portuguese territory. Skyylerblu Johnson opened things up for the home team with her goal in the 12th minute, while Samantha Kaufman and Paige Surber hit the board in the 18th and 22nd minute, respectively. Anjelica Claire Perez and Kaufman scored the last two goals for Guam with the former finding her target in the 42nd and the latter getting her second in the 48th.<\/p>\n<p>The CNMI will meet Guam this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliever Kirk Schuler saved the CNMI Men\u2019s National Team from a shutout loss to Chinese-Taipei&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":231314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26,51,529,656],"class_list":["post-231306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cnmi","tag-guam","tag-macau","tag-mongolia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}