{"id":29037,"date":"2014-11-02T01:01:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-02T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=29037"},"modified":"2014-11-02T08:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T13:24:00","slug":"asl-w-mass-finishes-season-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=29037","title":{"rendered":"ASL: W. Mass Finishes Season Unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29038\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29038\" data-attachment-id=\"29038\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=29038\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png?fit=455%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"455,307\" 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=\"LP-16\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png?fit=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png?fit=455%2C307&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png?resize=455%2C307\" alt=\"Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com\" width=\"455\" height=\"307\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png?w=455&amp;ssl=1 455w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/LP-16.png?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: David Henry\/sweetdogphotos.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A pair of Will Daniels goals in Saturday\u2019s finale against Mass United FC ensured an unblemished season for Western Mass Pro Soccer Club following a 2-2 draw at Salem State University in Salem, Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels scored in the 29th and 56th minutes to give the guests a two-goal lead that the hosts quickly chopped down with strikes from Carlos Diniz and Jared Joaquin in the 64th and 69th minutes, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The draw allowed the Lusitanos to finish the Fall 2014 season at 6-0-4 (22 points), tops in the ASL. The Riders finished the campaign unable to reach the win column after going 0-3-6 (6 points).<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s contest was a rematch of the season opener between the Commonwealth clubs, which also ended in a draw. But this time around, it appeared that Western Mass would walk away with a win thanks to Daniels\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n<p>The Lusitano striker opened the scoring just before the half-hour when he slotted through a pass from Luke Perry, beating goalkeeper Malcolm Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels added another near the hour, giving the guests a two-goal lead amid the rainy and windy conditions that swept through New England on Saturday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p>Cold rainy night in Salem! Kickoff. Not many tweets tonight due to weather. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/4tYZu7KkmM\">pic.twitter.com\/4tYZu7KkmM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; WM Pro Soccer (@wmprosoccer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wmprosoccer\/status\/528686092279873536\">November 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But the Riders wouldn\u2019t let Daniels \u2013 or the weather \u2013 stop them from trying to get back in the game. <\/p>\n<p>Diniz answered eight minutes after Daniels&#8217; second goal, while Joaquin canceled out the guests&#8217; advantage in with just over 20 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Western Mass made a trio of late substitutions in the hopes of reclaiming the lead, but the go-ahead never arrived as the season finale ended on level terms. <\/p>\n<p>The start date for the Spring 2015 campaign has not yet been announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lusitanos finished the fall campaign 6-0-4, tops in ASL play.<\/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\/29037"}],"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=29037"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29041,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29037\/revisions\/29041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}