{"id":17022,"date":"2012-11-18T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T04:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17022"},"modified":"2012-11-19T10:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T15:15:18","slug":"mass-premier-coasts-to-usoc-state-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=17022","title":{"rendered":"Mass Premier Coasts to USOC State Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=17025\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17025\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17025\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=17025\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MPS_Logo-1.jpg?fit=410%2C274\" data-orig-size=\"410,274\" 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=\"MPS_Logo-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MPS_Logo-1.jpg?fit=300%2C200\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MPS_Logo-1.jpg?fit=410%2C274\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MPS_Logo-1.jpg?resize=410%2C274\" alt=\"\" title=\"MPS_Logo-1\" width=\"410\" height=\"274\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MPS_Logo-1.jpg?w=410 410w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/MPS_Logo-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Christman and Dan MacGregor each tallied twice in Mass Premier Soccer&#8217;s 8-1 annihiliation of Strela Negra at Citizens Bank Field in Sunday&#8217;s U.S. Open Cup semi-final qualifying contest.<\/p>\n<p>Christman struck on each side of the interval, while MacGregor found both of his goals in the first half.\u00a0Matt Hoff, Tyler Macnee, Kevin Unger and Jake Edwards also scored for Mass Premier. Jibita Sombaros scored Strela Negra&#8217;s goal just before the break.<\/p>\n<p>The match concluded in controversy\u00a0after a Strela Negra punched a Mass Premier\u00a0player following Edwards&#8217; strike in the waning minutes. The offender was issued a red card, and the referee held the ball until the clock expired.<\/p>\n<p>Mass Premier&#8217;s win booked them a spot in the Massachusetts state final, where they&#8217;ll play East Providence Sports, who claimed a 4-3 win over Battery Park Gunners in Saturday&#8217;s semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>The date and time of the final has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hank Alexandre contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mass Premier Soccer struck first and never looked back in an 8-1 annihilation of Strela Negra. <\/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\/17022"}],"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=17022"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17036,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}