{"id":320042,"date":"2020-03-30T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=320042"},"modified":"2020-03-30T06:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T20:00:29","slug":"mpus-lee-leads-golden-boot-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/mpus-lee-leads-golden-boot-race\/","title":{"rendered":"MPU\u2019s Lee leads Golden Boot race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_320045\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-320045\" style=\"width: 583px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/nmifa-pix-new2.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-320045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kanoa Football Club\u2019s Andruw Omelau, left, seen here trying to prevent TanHoldings Football Club\u2019s Taka Borja from saving the ball, is with MP United Football Club\u2019s Oliver Lee, inset,  and TanHoldings\u2019 Mark Esalan in the Top 3 for the Golden Boot race in the boys U19 division of the 2020 NMIFA Spring Youth League. (Saipan Tribune Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MP United Football Club\u2019s Oliver Lee is alone at the top spot for the Golden Boot race in the boys U19 division of the 2020 NMIFA Spring Youth League.<\/p>\n<p>After four matches at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville, Lee has recorded 10 goals and is so far the only player in the division to have goals in twin digits. <\/p>\n<p>He made it to the board in all of MP United\u2019s four games, showing his best scoring output in their 16-0 demolition of Kanoa Football Club 2 last March after tallying six goals.  Lee earlier debuted in the season with a hat trick, lifting MP United to a 8-0 triumph over the CNMI Boys U15 National Team last Feb. 14. The MP United striker\u2019s two other goals were registered against Kanoa FC 1 (last Feb. 21) and TanHoldings (Feb. 28).<\/p>\n<p>Lee is ahead by three goals against Kanoa FC 1\u2019s Andruw Omelau, who did not score in the team\u2019s first two matches, but made up for his silence when he collected five goals in their 12-2 win over Kanoa FC 2 last March 13. Omelau\u2019s two other goals were posted in their 5-2 victory against the NMI U15 last March 6.<\/p>\n<p>TanHoldings\u2019 Mark Esalan joined Omelau and Lee in the Top 3 for the battle for the Golden Boot award after gaining five goals. Esalan delivered three goals in their 4-0 win over the NMI U15 last March 13 and one apiece versus Kanoa 2 and MP United.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NMI U15\u2019s Andrew Chung and MP United\u2019s Kaden Church have four goals apiece to share the No. 4 spot in the leaderboard, while TanHoldings\u2019 John Paul Cruz, Kohtaro Goto, MP United\u2019s John Bucayo, and Kanoa 1\u2019s Daniel Mar Pablo are also in a tie for fifth after logging three goals apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Matches in the boys U19 division along with the other age groups competitions are suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MP United Football Club\u2019s Oliver Lee is alone at the top spot for the Golden&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":320045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[10641,2156],"class_list":["post-320042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-golden-boot","tag-mpu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320042","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=320042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}