{"id":385760,"date":"2023-02-21T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=385760"},"modified":"2023-02-21T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T20:00:16","slug":"hilitais-tatagas-defeat-foes-in-ms-girls-soccer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/hilitais-tatagas-defeat-foes-in-ms-girls-soccer\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilitais, Tatagas defeat foes in MS girls soccer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_385728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-385728\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NMIFA-pix.wbjpg_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/NMIFA-pix.wbjpg_.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-385728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tanapag Middle School\u2019s Hailey Benavente, right, goes up against Francisco M. Sablan Middle School\u2019s Selena Atalig in the 2022-2023 NMIFA-PSS Interscholastic Soccer League last Tuesday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville. (LEIGH GASES)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Hopwood Middle School Hilitais and Tanapag Middle School Tatagas defeated their respective foes in the girls middle school 2022-2023 NMIFA-PSS Interscholastic Soccer League played last week at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>Hopwood Middle School secured a lopsided win against ChaCha Ocean View Middle School, 9-0 on Thursday, while the Tanapag Middle School Tatagas beat Francisco M. Sablan Middle School, 3-2, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Led by the Hilitais\u2019 Alyssa Borlongan, she almost single-footedly scored all of her team\u2019s goals\u2014with twice the hat-trick at 6\u2014whereas the Lancherus could not score a single point.<\/p>\n<p>Borlongan\u2019s teammates Yelynn Ha and Kaye Ann Costales scored the three other goals and the game ended with a goose egg for the Lancherus.<\/p>\n<p>In the Tatagas-Napu Riders game, they were both evenly matched, but the last-ditch effort by the Tatagas\u2019 Xyriel Pascual broke the tie and secured the W in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Napu Riders\u2019 Kalia Mendiola and Selena Atalig scored their team\u2019s two goals, while the Tatagas\u2019 Hailey Benavente and Isabella Cruz scored the team\u2019s first two goals.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, Saipan International School won against FMS, 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Geckos\u2019 Beatrice Gross cobbled up all their goals and completed the hat-trick, which eventually sealed the deal against the silent Napu Riders.<\/p>\n<p>In the first game on Tuesday, Dandan Middle School defeated ChaCha Ocean View Middle School, 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Tottots\u2019 Jahsmin Ramon scored the first goal in the 30th minute, while Kailani Laniyo scored the second in the 45th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Hilitais are on top of the standings with 2 wins and 1 draw; the Geckos have 1 win and 2 draws; TMS are at 1 win and 1 draw; FMS is at 1 win and 2 losses; DMS is at 1 win and 1 loss; while the COVMS are at 3 losses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hopwood Middle School Hilitais and Tanapag Middle School Tatagas defeated their respective foes in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":385729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9120,232],"class_list":["post-385760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ms","tag-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385760","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}