{"id":33114,"date":"2018-02-17T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/stars-defense-shines-in-5-3-win-over-turlock\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T16:30:00","slug":"stars-defense-shines-in-5-3-win-over-turlock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/stars-defense-shines-in-5-3-win-over-turlock\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars defense shines in 5-3 win over Turlock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tacoma Stars went into Turlock, Calif., looking for the season sweep of the Express and completed it with a 5-3 win at the Indoor Soccer Center on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars (9-11) got goals from five players in a match in which they were outshot 12-8.<\/p>\n<p>Troy Peterson opened scoring with 7:01 left in the first quarter with an unassisted goal to put Tacoma on top 1-0. Derek Johnson doubled the Stars lead to 2-0 with 13:28 remaining in the second.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Plascencia cut the lead in half on his first of two goals in the game with 10:47 on the clock in the first half for the Express (2-18).<\/p>\n<p>Stars leading scorer Nick Perera netted his 21st goal of the season to put Tacoma up 3-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Plascencia scored his second of the match with 6:30 remaining in the third only to have Trevor Jensen find the scoresheet just 32 seconds later, and it was 4-2 Tacoma heading into the final quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Jamael Cox wasted no time scoring in the fourth when he put the Stars on top 5-2 only 35 seconds into the quarter. Tacoma&rsquo;s defense held Turlock to two shots in the final quarter, but one of them was the Express&rsquo; leading scorer Ivan Campos&rsquo; 23rd goal of the year to reach the 5-3 final.<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma begins its final regular season homestand of the season Friday, Feb. 23 against Ontario at 7:35 p.m. Fans in attendance for the game will receive a 2017-28 Stars team photo.<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma trails Ontario by just one game for the second Pacific Division playoff spot with just two games left to play.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets call 1-800-STARS-84 or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacomastars.com\" target=\"_blank\">tacomastars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stars games are streamed live on www.masl.tv with live stats available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maslsoccer.com\" target=\"_blank\">maslsoccer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33114"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}