{"id":33365,"date":"2018-03-02T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/stars-clinch-ron-newman-cup-playoff-spot\/"},"modified":"2018-03-02T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:30:00","slug":"stars-clinch-ron-newman-cup-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/stars-clinch-ron-newman-cup-playoff-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars clinch Ron Newman Cup playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tacoma Stars clinched the eighth and final spot in the MASL Ron Newman Cup playoffs by virtue of the Ontario Fury&rsquo;s 8-4 loss to the San Diego Sockers on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>This sets up a matchup between the Stars and the Pacific Division-leading Sockers (18-3).<\/p>\n<p>Tacoma (10-11) hosts San Diego for its leg of the home-and-home series on Thursday, March 8, with a 7:35 p.m. kickoff at the accesso ShoWare Center. The series shifts to San Diego on Saturday, March 10.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego swept the Stars during the regular season with a pair of 8-3 wins in San Diego and 4-3 in Kent on Dec. 1. The Sockers took the final matchup 10-3, also in Kent, on Feb. 9.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars wrap up their regular season Friday against the Kansas City Comets on Fan Appreciation Night. Kickoff is 7:35 p.m., and hundreds of prizes will be given out during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Legendary Tacoma Star Ralph Black will be on hand for the ceremonial first kick.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the home playoff game are on sale. For tickets call 1-800-STARS-84 or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacomastars.com\" target=\"_blank\">tacomastars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific Division-leading Sockers loom next week; regular-season finale tonight <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33365"}],"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=33365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33365"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}