{"id":46066,"date":"2017-07-15T21:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T01:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46066"},"modified":"2017-07-15T21:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T01:59:15","slug":"elm-city-advances-to-regional-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=46066","title":{"rendered":"Elm City Advances to Regional Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_46067\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-46067\" data-attachment-id=\"46067\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=46067\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.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=\"Elm-City-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Elm City Express&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.png?fit=300%2C208\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.png?fit=600%2C415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-46067\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.png?w=600 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.png?resize=300%2C208 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-46067\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Elm City Express<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Elm City Express notched its first playoff victory in club history to earn a spot in the Northeast Regional round following Saturday&#8217;s 2-0 win over TSF FC (New Jersey) in the Atlantic Blue Conference Division final at Yale University&#8217;s Reese Stadium in New Haven, Ct.<\/p>\n<p>Tavoy Morgan unlocked a scoreless match in the 62nd minute while Lucas Gabriel Sousa scored from the spot in the 88th minute as the expansion side got its first taste of postseason spoils.<\/p>\n<p>The New Haven selection earned its berth to Saturday&#8217;s final on the strength of a 29 point season (9-1-2), good for the top spot in the division. The top of the table finish afforded them a first-round bye.<\/p>\n<p>Elm City will host Kingston Stockade FC in the Northeast Region semifinal on Saturday, Jul. 22 in New Haven.<\/p>\n<p>Stockade steered itself to the semifinal after beating Hartford City FC in Saturday&#8217;s Atlantic Blue Conference Division final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elm City Express punched its ticket to the regional playoffs after beating TSF FC 2-0. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46067,"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":[1633,891,1295,1648,892,1650],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Elm-City-1-2.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\/46066"}],"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=46066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46069,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46066\/revisions\/46069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}