The Tacoma Stars opened the MASL Ron Newman Cup playoffs with a convincing 5-2 win over the San Diego Sockers at the accesso ShoWare Center on Thursday night.<\/p>\n
The series shifts to San Diego for Game 2 Saturday. Should the Sockers win, a mini tiebreaker game will be played immediately following Game 2.<\/p>\n
Philip Lund opened the scoring for the Stars with 4:55 left in the opening quarter, and Nick Perera added another just 40 seconds later to put the Stars up 2-0.<\/p>\n
The tables turned in the second quarter when Felipe Gonzalez and Kraig Chiles tallied for the visitors to tie the game 2-2 at halftime.<\/p>\n
The Stars dominated the final quarter after a scoreless third, beginning with Taylor Bond’s goal with 11:19 left in the 4th. Jamael Cox netted a goal with 9:43 left, and Raphael Cox closed out scoring with 2:38 remaining to give the Stars the victory.<\/p>\n
For 2018-19 Tacoma Stars season tickets, or more information, call 1-844-STARS-84 or go to tacomastars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Stars games are streamed live on masl.tv<\/a> with live stats available at maslsoccer.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Series shifts to San Diego for Saturday’s match <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33523","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\/33523"}],"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=33523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33523"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}