{"id":237173,"date":"2016-09-23T06:00:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=237173"},"modified":"2016-09-23T06:00:24","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T20:00:24","slug":"church-2-tanholdings-players-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/church-2-tanholdings-players-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Church, 2 TanHoldings players on top"},"content":{"rendered":"
Paire Football Club\u2019s Max Church, right, dribbles away from his teammate and an MP United 2 defender during the second half of their co-ed 12 competitive division game in the NMIFA fall youth league last Saturday at the Hopwood Junior High School Field. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pair Football Club\u2019s Max Church and TanHoldings FC\u2019s Kohtaro Goto and Oliver Fajardo are ahead in the early race for the Golden Boot award in the co-ed U12 competitive division of the 2016 NMIFA Youth Fall League.<\/p>\n

Church, Goto, and Fajardo have collected five goals apiece after Week 2 of the league with the former catching up with the two TanHoldings players following his four-goal production in Paire\u2019s 9-3 rout of MP United 2 last Saturday. Church\u2019s other goal was made in their 9-9 draw against TanHoldings in the opening week of the competition.<\/p>\n

Fajardo, on the other hand, bagged four goals for TanHoldings in Week 1, while Goto started the season by knocking in three goals. Goto added two in their 3-5 loss to Kanoa last weekend, while Fajardo posted the other goal in the defeat.<\/p>\n

Not far behind Fajardo, Goto, and Church are the latter\u2019s teammates Dylan Mister and Maui Johnson, who have earned four goals each. Mister got two goals apiece in their game against TanHoldings and MP United 2 and Johnson had the same record.<\/p>\n

Seven other players in the division have made it to NMIFA\u2019s goal tracker list with Paire\u2019s Justin Weaver, TanHoldings\u2019 Angelo, Kanoa\u2019s Jaydee Jose, and MP United 2\u2019s Garrett Weaver registering two each, and Kanoa\u2019s Merrick Toves and Ian Lubao and MP United 2\u2019s Leopoldo Naraja recording one apiece.<\/p>\n

In the girls U15 age group, there is also a three-way tie among Matansa\u2019s Lyka Sally and Guinevere Borja, and Kanoa\u2019s Toremy Diaz. Lyka had three goals in their 8-0 beating of TanHoldings in Week 1 and tallied one in their 4-6 loss to Shirley\u2019s last weekend. Borja scored two each in their first two games, while Diaz posted all four in their 7-0 thrashing of TanHoldings in Week 2.<\/p>\n

Shirley\u2019s FC\u2019s Diana Manacop, Katrna Coastales, and Lillian Podziewski, MP United\u2019s Gillian Gillavomez, and Matansa\u2019s Angel Sally have two each to make it to the Top 10. <\/p>\n

In the boys U17 division, Matansa\u2019s Jun Sik Kim is alone on top with his five goals, carding three in their 11-2 whipping of Paire and two more in their draw against MP United in Week 2. Lurking behind Kim is his teammate Evan Belcher and TanHoldings\u2019 Louie Calayag, who have three each. Belcher got his three goals in the season-opening win, while Calayag recorded one and two in TanHoldings 2-1 win over MP United and 5-0 victory versus Kanoa.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Kaden Church\u2019s four goals in Paire\u2019s 6-2 win over MP United gave him a head start in the boys U14 division. Kaden leads Matansa\u2019s Razeff Altamirano, Glenn Mark Basallo, and Iverson Santos and TanHoldings\u2019 Kirro Batino and Mark Esalan, who have two goals each. Eight other players made it to the board in the opening week of the division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pair Football Club\u2019s Max Church and TanHoldings FC\u2019s Kohtaro Goto and Oliver Fajardo are ahead…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":237177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13410,10093,198,13495],"class_list":["post-237173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-justin-weaver","tag-max-church","tag-nmifa","tag-razeff-altamirano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237173","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=237173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}