{"id":42177,"date":"2016-04-03T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T02:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42177"},"modified":"2016-04-04T10:50:24","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T14:50:24","slug":"usasa-newtown-pride-falls-in-region-1-play-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42177","title":{"rendered":"USASA: Newtown Pride Falls in Region 1 Play-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42178\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42178\" data-attachment-id=\"42178\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=42178\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" 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;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lansdowne-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Lansdowne Bhoys FC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42178\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Lansdowne Bhoys FC\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Lansdowne Bhoys FC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Newtown Pride FC kept it close going into the break, but was unable to withstand Lansdowne Bhoys FC&#8217;s attack after the break to drop a 3-0 loss in Farmington, Ct. during Sunday&#8217;s Region 1 play-in match for the National Amateur Cup tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Bhoys got their first goal of the game in the 35th minute from Craig Purcell, who headed home a cross from\u00a0Jason Gaylord to put the Pride on notice going into halftime.<\/p>\n<p>But the Bhoys were too much for the Pride to handle after the break. Captain Stephen Roche converted from the spot in the 47th minute while\u00a0Jimmy Neilis\u00a0scored directly from a corner kick not long after to cap the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, the Bhoys leapfrogged the Region 1 quarterfinal stage after New Hampshire-based Manzonilla forfeited the clash, thus affording the Yonkers-based squad a spot in the semifinals. They&#8217;ll face the winner of the Apr. 17 quarterfinal tie between Southie FC and Trenton Rebels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newtown Pride FC was eliminated from Amateur Cup play by Lansdowne Bhoys FC on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42178,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[177],"tags":[1378,1306,998,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Lansdowne-1.png?fit=600%2C415","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42177"}],"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=42177"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42200,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42177\/revisions\/42200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}