{"id":319752,"date":"2020-03-25T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=319752"},"modified":"2020-03-25T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T20:06:00","slug":"toves-goto-set-pace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/toves-goto-set-pace\/","title":{"rendered":"Toves, Goto set pace"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-319752 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\/toves-goto-set-pace\/nmifapixright-toves\/'>nmifapixright-(toves)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-319755'>\n\t\t\t\tToves\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\/toves-goto-set-pace\/nmifapixleftgoto\/'>nmifapixleft(goto)<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-319753'>\n\t\t\t\tGoto\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Kanoa Football Club\u2019s Markus Toves and TanHoldings Football Club\u2019s Kohtaro Goto are the frontrunners in the Golden Boot race in the boys U16 division of the 2020 NMIFA Spring Youth League.<\/p>\n<p>Toves and Goto have scored eight goals apiece after five matches in the three-round robin competition, which is suspended indefinitely due to the COVID-19 crisis. Toves managed to go on top of the leaderboard for the battle for the Golden Boot award after scoring three goals each in their 5-1 win over MP United Football Club last Feb. 29 and in their 9-0 demolition of Matansa Football Club last March 7. The Kanoa forward\u2019s two other goals were registered in their pair of victories over MP United (5-1 win last Feb. 22 and 2-1 triumph last March 14).<\/p>\n<p>Goto forced a tie with Toves after getting three goals in TanHoldings\u2019 last match before the league was halted. Goto\u2019s hat trick powered TanHoldings to a 4-1 victory over Matansa last March 14. The CNMI Boys U15 National Team member debuted this season with a two-goal performance in their 3-1 win over MP United last Feb. 15 and made one apiece in their victory against Matansa (5-3) last Feb. 22 and losses to Kanoa (2-6 last Feb. 29) and MP United (2-4 last March 7).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Toves\u2019 teammate, Jaydee Jose, is still in the thick of the fight for the Golden Boot award, as the latter has gained six goals after five games. Jose collected three in their lopsided win over Matansa last March 7 and one each versus Matansa, MP United, and TanHoldings in the Feb. 15, 22, and 29 matches, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Jose in third place is TanHoldings\u2019s Mark Joseph Roque (four goals), while Matansa\u2019s Gabriel Arkoh, Kanoa\u2019s Daniel Mar Pablo and Brian Lubao, and MP United\u2019s Andrew Chung have three each. Three other MP United players\u2014Devi Bachani, Richard Castro, and Jerick Quimzon\u2014joined the list of players who has scored more than one goal this season, as they made two apiece. <\/p>\n<p>In the team rankings, Kanoa, which is unbeaten in five games, has the most goals scored so far with 25. TanHoldings has 16, while MP United and Matansa have eight and seven, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The division is down to four playing weekends when the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association suspended the matches last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanoa Football Club\u2019s Markus Toves and TanHoldings Football Club\u2019s Kohtaro Goto are the frontrunners in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":319754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-319752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319752","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=319752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}