{"id":16961,"date":"2012-11-16T21:11:24","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T02:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16961"},"modified":"2012-11-17T10:32:03","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T15:32:03","slug":"usoc-qualifying-mass-semis-on-tap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=16961","title":{"rendered":"USOC Qualifying: Mass. Semis on Tap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=16747\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"16747\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=16747\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/LHUSOpenCupLogo-272x300.png?fit=272%2C300\" data-orig-size=\"272,300\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"LHUSOpenCupLogo-272&#215;300\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/LHUSOpenCupLogo-272x300.png?fit=272%2C300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/LHUSOpenCupLogo-272x300.png?fit=272%2C300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16747\" title=\"LHUSOpenCupLogo-272x300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/LHUSOpenCupLogo-272x300.png?resize=272%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"272\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks after U.S. Open Cup qualifying kicked off in the Commonwealth, four amateur clubs will face off this weekend in semifinal round.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Battery Park Gunners (BSSL) and East Providence Sports (LUSA) meet for their semifinal match at Madison Park High School in Roxbury, Mass. The game kicks off at 12:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>Battery Park punched their ticket to the semifinal following a 2-1 win over Mass United FC (BSSL)\u00a0on Nov. 3. East Providence earned its spot after it claimed a convincing 6-1 victory over Middlesex FC (BSSL) on Nov. 4.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Mass Premier Soccer (BSSL) and Strela Negra (NELASA) square off at Citizens Bank Field in Lancaster, Mass. Kickoff is set for 1pm.<\/p>\n<p>Mass Premier earned its spot after grabbing a 6-0 win over Boston Olympiakos (MSSL) on Nov. 4. Strela Negra enters Sunday&#8217;s match fresh off a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p>The winners of this weekend&#8217;s contests are set to battle on Dec. 9 in the Massachusetts state championship game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battery Park Gunners, East Providence Sports, Mass Premier Soccer and Strela Negra will battle for a spot in the state final this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16961"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16993,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16961\/revisions\/16993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}