{"id":241383,"date":"2016-11-28T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=241383"},"modified":"2016-11-28T06:00:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T20:00:50","slug":"basnet-church-score-goals-fall-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/basnet-church-score-goals-fall-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Basnet, Church score most goals in fall season"},"content":{"rendered":"
MP United-1\u2019s Rohan Basnet, left, is held down by a Kanoa defender during their playoff game for the co-ed U12 title in the NMIFA youth league last Nov. 19 at the Hopwood Junior High School Field. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MP United Football Club\u2019s Rohan Basnet and Paire FC\u2019s Kaden Church made the most goals in the 2016 NMIFA Youth Fall League that concluded last week.<\/p>\n

Basnet and Church collected 25 goals apiece to lead their respective divisions.<\/p>\n

The MP United 1 striker played for the club\u2019s co-ed U12 team and won the Golden Boot race against TanHoldings\u2019 Kohtaro Goto and Paire\u2019s Dylan Mister, who were the two other players to haul 20-plus goals in the double-round robin fall season. Goto gained 23, while Mister earned 21.<\/p>\n

Of the 11 games (including its playoff loss to Kanoa FC for the division title) MP United-1 played, Basnet scored in seven of them with his most goals (5) in a single match coming during their 12-0 demolition of Paire last Oct. 8.<\/p>\n

Basnet\u2019s teammate Rintaro Miyawaki also registered double figures in goals scored after posting 19, while TanHoldings\u2019 Oliver Fajardo and Kanoa\u2019s Merrick Toves recorded 18 and 12, respectively. MP United-1\u2019s Andrew Chung and MP United-2\u2019s Sean Gil had 10 apiece.<\/p>\n

In the boys U14 division, Church also won a close fight against TanHoldings\u2019 Mark Esalan, 25-23. Esalan nearly caught up with Church when the former racked up nine goals in TanHoldings\u2019 last game of the season (against Shirley\u2019s FC, 13-1).<\/p>\n

Fortunately for Church, he managed to get a hat trick in their 10-2 triumph over Matansa FC, also during the last day of competition in the division. The Paire player gained a good lead early in the season as he had already scored 10 goals after only two games. Church had his most goals (6) in their second game opposite Shirley\u2019s FC (14-1) last Sept. 24.<\/p>\n

Church and Esalan were the only two players in their division to score 20-plus goals as TanHoldings\u2019 Kirro Batino, Matansa\u2019s Lolobeyong Benito, and Kanoa\u2019s Ian Maniago recorded 15, 13, and 11, respectively.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Matansa\u2019s Jun Sik Kim and Guinevere Borja led the Golden Boot races in the boys U17 and girls U15 age groups.<\/p>\n

Borja\u2019s 19 in eight games gave her the victory against Kanoa\u2019s Paulynn Joyce, who registered 16. MP United\u2019s Gillian Villagomez was only the third player in the girls U15 division to make 10 or more goals with her 11.<\/p>\n

In the boys U17, there were also only three players who hit the twin-digit mark with Kim collecting 13 to edge MP United\u2019s Sun Joon Tenorio (11) and the former\u2019s teammate Terrance Belcher (10). Tenorio foiled Matansa\u2019s 1-2 finish in the Golden Boot Race as he slipped past Belcher after logging 6 goals in their final regular season game (against Kanoa).<\/p>\n

Tenorio\u2019s team went on to win the boys U17 fall title after beating TanHoldings in the penalty shootout last Wednesday, 4-3, while Kanoa and Shirley\u2019s FC topped the boys co-ed U12 and girls U15 divisions, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MP United Football Club\u2019s Rohan Basnet and Paire FC\u2019s Kaden Church made the most goals…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":241404,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9724,2353,14457,13755],"class_list":["post-241383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-andrew-chung","tag-fc","tag-golden-boot-race","tag-rohan-basnet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241383","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=241383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}