{"id":46048,"date":"2017-07-15T21:01:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46048"},"modified":"2017-07-15T21:03:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T01:03:37","slug":"colts-playoff-hopes-end-in-et-at-stockade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46048","title":{"rendered":"Colts Playoff Hopes End in ET at Stockade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46049\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46049\" data-attachment-id=\"46049\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=46049\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-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=\"HCFC-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Hartford City FC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-1.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-1.png?fit=600%2C415\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-1.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-1.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Hartford City FC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sebastian Stezewski grabbed an early lead for Hartford City FC, but Kingston Stockade FC prevailed in extra time to grab a 2-1 win in Saturday&#8217;s Atlantic White Conference Division final in front of a record 1,396 fans at Dietz Stadium in Kingston, N.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Stezewski scored inside of six minutes to put the Colts ahead before Kingston&#8217;s Bruce Jeter equalized in the 15th minute in a match that required extra time to separate the combatants. <\/p>\n<p>Not long after extra time kicked off, Michael Creswick turned and blasted a volley from 20 yards in the 94th minute to put the hosts ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Paulinton Johnson tested Skonieczny with back-to-back shots in the 101st minute, but was unable to stuff it into the back of the net. Shortly after Johnson&#8217;s second attempt, a loose ball squirted into the Stockade net, but a foul was called on the Colts, thus nullifying the goal. <\/p>\n<p>But the drama was far from over. Hami Kara, who made a collection of acrobatic saves over the course of the evening, confidently denied a Matt Koziol penalty in the 118th minute to keep his team within striking distance in the waning moments. <\/p>\n<p>Not long after, time expired on Hartford City&#8217;s bid for a spot in the Northeast Regional bracket. <\/p>\n<p>Hartford City ends its inaugural campaign with a 5-3-4 record (19 points), good for third place in the Atlantic White Conference Division.<\/p>\n<p>They notched the first playoff win in club history on Wednesday, a dramatic 2-1 road playoff victory at Boston City on Wednesday before their remarkable debut season came to an end in Kingston.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartford City fell 2-1 in extra time to Kingston Stockade in Saturday&#8217;s divisional final. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46049,"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":[1649],"tags":[891,1259,1537,1295,1648,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/HCFC-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\/46048"}],"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=46048"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46061,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46048\/revisions\/46061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}