{"id":273219,"date":"2018-04-04T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=273219"},"modified":"2018-04-04T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:00:03","slug":"tanholdings-players-lead-way-golden-boot-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tanholdings-players-lead-way-golden-boot-race\/","title":{"rendered":"TanHoldings players lead way in Golden Boot race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_273262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273262\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/nmifapix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-273262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">TanHoldings\u2019 Anthony Bergancia, right, leads the Golden Boot race in the co-ed U13 division of the 2018 NMIFA Spring Youth League. (Roselyn B. Monroyo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three TanHoldings Football Club players are ahead in the Golden Boot race in the 2018 NMIFA Spring Youth League.<\/p>\n<p>In the co-ed U13 division, Anthony Bergancia earned 14 goals in six games to lead a tight battle for the Golden Boot award. He scored in the first three matches of TanHoldings-1 (1, 3, and 2) and had back-to-back four-goal output in Games 5 and 6 to take the slim lead.<\/p>\n<p>Just right behind Bergancia is teammate Mark Joseph Roque, who posted 13 goals, while MP United 1\u2019s Andrew Chung and another TanHoldings-1 player, Angelo Pulido, are still very much in contention with 12 and 10 goals, respectively. Ariel Narvaez, also from the unbeaten TanHoldings-1 (6-0-0), completed the Top 5 with his nine goals.<\/p>\n<p>Four playing weekends are left in the co-ed U13 division before the Golden Boot winner is decided.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U15 division, TanHoldings\u2019 Taka Borja is way ahead of his competitors after gaining 20 goals in six matches. The TanHoldings strike leads Kanoa\u2019s Ian Maniago (13) and MP United\u2019s Rintaro Miyawaki (11). Four players\u2014Matansa\u2019s Lolobeyong Benito and Razeff Altamirano, Paire\u2019s Kaden Church, and Kanoa\u2019s Markus Toves\u2014are tied for fourth with eight goals each, while MP United\u2019s Jason Quimzon is ranked fifth with his six goals. Players have three games left to get more goals and boost their chances for the Golden Boot award.<\/p>\n<p>In the girls U16 division, Kanoa\u2019s Paulynn Joyce also enjoys a good lead against MP United\u2019s Stella McCallion, as the former registered 18 goals in four games over the latter\u2019s 11. Others who made it to the Top 5 are Southern United\u2019s Keisha Deleon Guerrero (8), Kanoa\u2019s Sharmaine Francisco (8), TanHoldings\u2019 Judy Andebor (6), and Shirley\u2019s Jerlyn Castillo (4).  Players chasing Joyce have four games to earn more goals and dislodge the Kanoa striker from the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>In the boys U18 division, TanHoldings\u2019 Mark Esalan has the lead with three playing weeks to go. He collected nine  goals in four games to pace perennial Golden Boot winner and MP United main man Sunjoon Tenorio (6), Kanoa\u2019s Andruw Omelau (4) and Merrick Toves (4), Matansa\u2019s Joshua De Leon (3), and MP United\u2019s Dai Podziewski (3) and Miyawaki (3).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, action in the youth league will resume this Saturday after Northern Mariana Islands Football Association called off the games last weekend in observance of Easter Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three TanHoldings Football Club players are ahead in the Golden Boot race in the 2018&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":273262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10788,10641,15994,13941],"class_list":["post-273219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-angelo-pulido","tag-golden-boot","tag-keisha-deleon-guerrero","tag-paulynn-joyce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273219","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=273219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}