{"id":345459,"date":"2021-06-04T06:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=345459"},"modified":"2021-06-04T06:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T20:04:54","slug":"nmi-u18-a-hands-tanholdings-another-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/nmi-u18-a-hands-tanholdings-another-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"NMI U18 A hands TanHoldings another loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_345460\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-345460\" style=\"width: 432px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/M-League-pix.jpg\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-345460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NMI Boys National Team U18 A\u2019s Akira Kadokura, left, catches up on defense against TanHoldings Football Club\u2019s Ronnel Ocanada during their first round game in Division A of the M-League Spring 2021 early this month at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville. (Contributed Photo)<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The NMI National Boys U18 A served TanHoldings its second loss of the season following their match of the M-League Spring 2021 last Sunday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>TanHoldings, who went undefeated for most of the season, has lost their mojo, dropping two games in back-to-back weekends.<\/p>\n<p>During their match last weekend, NMI U18 edged out TanHoldings, 4-2, to hand them their second loss of the season. TanHoldings, however, remains on top of the standings with a win-loss record of 9-2 with one draw. <\/p>\n<p>TanHoldings initially held the lead with Martin Jambor scoring the first goal in the 19th minute. <\/p>\n<p>However, NMI U18 A\u2019s Kohtaro Goto, who carried the team with his two goals, landed his first goal in the 25th minute to bring the game to a draw. Kaden Church turned the tables in their favor after landing a goal in the 58th minute, giving his team a 1-point advantage, 2-1. <\/p>\n<p>Jershwin Angeles of TanHoldings brought the game to a tie again in the 62nd minute, but Goto took back the lead for NMI U18 A after firing his second goal in the 70th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Akira Kadokura delivered the final blow and secured the win for NMI U18 with a goal in the 74th minute. <\/p>\n<p>The previous weekend, MP United denied TanHoldings\u2019 bid for an undefeated season after taking a 2-0 victory in their Division A game.  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, sister team NMI U18 B crushed Old B Bank last Friday after taking a 3-0 victory over the latter. <\/p>\n<p>Aloy Angeles led the way with a goal in the 3rd minute, followed by another goal from Ruben Guerrero in the 12th minute. Garrett Weaver landed the team\u2019s final goal in the 39th minute. <\/p>\n<p>Also prevailing last weekend was MP United who outshined The One, 2-0. <\/p>\n<p>Sunjoon Tenorio showed the way for MP United with a goal in the 21st minute and an own goal in the 66th minute gave MP United a 2-point advantage by the end of the match. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NMI National Boys U18 A served TanHoldings its second loss of the season following&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":345461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345459","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\/345459","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}