{"id":404616,"date":"2024-01-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=404616"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"MHS-SIS-to-contend-for-boys-soccer-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/MHS-SIS-to-contend-for-boys-soccer-title\/","title":{"rendered":"MHS, SIS to contend for boys soccer title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marianas High School Dolphins and Saipan International School Geckos are contending for the NMIFA-PSS Interscholastic Boys High School Soccer League 2023-2024 championship after defeating their foes in the semis last Tuesday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins, in a run to defend their title, came barging onto the pitch with lightning agility and quickly buried the Mount Carmel School Knights, 9-3.<\/p>\n<p>MHS\u2019 Cody Shimizu got a foothold of the ball and didn\u2019t let go until he scored in the fourth minute, but the Knights\u2019 Markus Toves evened it up right after.<\/p>\n<p>After the Knights\u2019 goal, they went on to be silenced by the Dolphins as Shimizu, Andrew Sablan, Paul Lizama, and Anthony Bergancia scored a goal each in the first half for a 5-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights made for a rally in the second half but the adrenaline and pressure probably got to them as they scored in their own goal to put the Dolphins up, 6-1. They made up for it by scoring two goals by the 52nd minute, but the Dolphins were just keeping the goals coming and had a huge lead before time ran out.<\/p>\n<p>Bergancia, Shimizu, and Lizama went on to score three more goals to wrap up the game at 9-3.<\/p>\n<p>The Geckos\u2019 game against Saipan Southern High School Manta Rays on the other hand, ended in a thriller penalty shootout, 5-4.<\/p>\n<p>Regulation ended, 1-1, scored by SSHS\u2019 Mark Patubo and SIS\u2019 Ian Song, respectively, and both teams went to work in extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams took turns scoring, but the Geckos\u2019 Andrew Chung grabbed the last goal and clinched the semis spot for SIS.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, the Dolphins and Geckos are set to face off at 5:30pm after the third-place match between the Manta Rays and the Knights.<\/p>\n<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\/e0e42162ae7d277d0fbe490addd6daad.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Marianas High School&#8217;s Cody Shimizu, with the ball, led the team with a hat-trick to win against Mount Carmel School in the NMIFA-PSS Interscholastic Boys High School Soccer League 2023-2024 semis last Tuesday at the NMI Soccer Training Center in Koblerville.<\/p>\n<p>-NMIFA<br \/><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marianas High School Dolphins and Saipan International School Geckos are contending for the NMIFA-PSS Interscholastic&#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-404616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404616","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=404616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}