{"id":402757,"date":"2023-12-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=402757"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"Matansa-SUFC-bag-U17-soccer-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/Matansa-SUFC-bag-U17-soccer-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Matansa, SUFC bag U17 soccer titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matansa bagged the U17 boys championship, while Southern United Football Club claimed the U17 girls title after the finals of the TakeCare Youth Soccer League Fall 2023 at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville last Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Matansa successfully kicked one more goal against Latte FC to cement their championship, 3-2. Wataru Kadokura immediately made it a 2-0 game by the 19th minute, but Latte\u2019s Isiah Barcinas got a foothold on the ball a couple minutes later to make it 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Latte pushed many times toward Matansa\u2019s goal only to come up short each time. This allowed Matansa to score an insurance goal in the 40th minute and put them up by two. Matansa held onto their two-goal lead until Barcinas found the net again in the 56th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Matansa\u2019s extra goal proved crucial as they bagged the win after Latte was unable to tie or overtake the lead.<\/p>\n<p>In the U17 girls game between SUFC and MP United, SUFC had a more consistent and accurate firepower and won, 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>MP United drew first blood in the 18th minute for a 1-0 lead, but that was all they could muster until later into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the assault on MP United\u2019s goal started in the 24th minute by SUFC\u2019s Pia Ngewakl, followed by back-to-back goals by Rosie Saralu at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Ngewakl completed the hat-trick in the 50th minute, and was complemented in between by a goal from Tamia Hix. At this point, MP United has drawn blanks and has not been able to penetrate SUFC\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n<p>MP United\u2019s last hurrah came in the 55th minute by Matty Angeles, only to be overshadowed by SUFC\u2019s 7th and final goal just a minute later.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Boot award for the most goals of the season went to Rosie Saralu with 22 goals in the U17 girls division; the Golden Boot award in the U17 boys division went to Kanoa\u2019s Markus Toves who scored 15 goals.<\/p>\n<p> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/f315f272bdc4a2e5388024ced22dd7d4.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Southern United Football Club&#8217;s U17 girls team poses with their championship trophy after their TakeCare Youth Soccer League Fall 2023 finals against Southern United FC last Saturday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>-NMIFA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure> <figure style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/a81f70100ef175225296b794c530525f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Matansa&#8217;s U17 boys team poses with their championship trophy after their TakeCare Youth Soccer League Fall 2023 finals against Southern United FC last Saturday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>-NMIFA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matansa bagged the U17 boys championship, while Southern United Football Club claimed the U17 girls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402757","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=402757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}