{"id":22965,"date":"2013-11-25T00:51:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=22965"},"modified":"2013-11-25T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T05:51:21","slug":"usoc-qualifying-mass-premier-wins-mass-state-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=22965","title":{"rendered":"USOC Qualifying: Mass Premier Wins Mass. State Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler MacNee&#8217;s overtime strike sent Mass Premier Soccer to its second straight\u00a0U.S. Open Cup State Final win after beating Valeo Sports 2-1 at Clemente Field in Boston on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>MacNee scored from a corner with about 10 minutes remaining in overtime, while Ben Shuleva&#8217;s goal right before the interval put\u00a0Mass Premier on the board following Marillo Zanetti&#8217;s opening strike.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Mass Premier will advance to the\u00a0USASA Region 1\u00a0tournament, which will kick off next spring.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, Sunday&#8217;s contest was set to pit Mass Premier against Mass United FC. But due to a roster violation discovered prior to the match, the Riders were disqualified, and Valeo, which lost 4-1\u00a0to Mass United two weeks ago in the state semis, was given a spot in Sunday&#8217;s final.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/thecup.us\/2015-us-open-cup-qualifying-mass-premier-soccer-wins-state-title-advances-to-region-i-finals\/\"><em>TheCup.us<\/em> contributor Hank Alexandre<\/a>, the 11th-hour switch forced Valeo to assemble a makeshift roster to field a team in time for Sunday&#8217;s contest.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Valeo found the board first after Zanetti&#8217;s singular effort inside the Mass Premier end allowed him to beat keeper Jeff Newman.<\/p>\n<p>But the defending state finals champs responded before the half when Shuleva, formerly of FC Dallas, scored from close range to level it.<\/p>\n<p>The battle for the game-winner bled into overtime, where Mass Premier would stake its flag. MacNee, who scored in last year&#8217;s state final against East Providence Sports, struck again on Sunday when he capitalized off a corner to give his club the win.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler MacNee&#8217;s overtime strike sent Mass Premier Soccer to its second straight Open Cup state final win on Sunday. <\/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":true,"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":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22965"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22966,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22965\/revisions\/22966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}