{"id":36451,"date":"2018-08-29T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/el-tigre-johnson-returning-to-stars-masl\/"},"modified":"2018-08-29T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T20:30:00","slug":"el-tigre-johnson-returning-to-stars-masl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/el-tigre-johnson-returning-to-stars-masl\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;El Tigre&#8217; Johnson returning to Stars | MASL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As work continues on the Tacoma Stars roster for the 2018-19 Major Arena Soccer League season, the team announced Wednesday that midfielder Derek &ldquo;El Tigre&rdquo; Johnson will return under contract.<\/p>\n<p>Per team and league policies, terms of the agreement were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson appeared in 12 games last season for the Stars, picking up seven points (four goals, three assists).<\/p>\n<p>In his career with Tacoma, Johnson has racked up 63 points &#8211; 42 goals, 21 assists &#8211; in 59 regular-season contests. He added a goal in two playoff games during the 2015-16 season.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Derek is a goal scorer, and we will look to him to get back on that horse in 2018-2019,&rdquo; said Stars coach and general manager Darren Sawatzky.<\/p>\n<p>The Stars return to action Dec. 1 with an expanded schedule. Tacoma will have 12 regular-season matches in the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and team information, call 1-844-STARS-84 or visit www.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tacomastars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">tacomastars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As work continues on the Tacoma Stars roster for the 2018-19 Major Arena Soccer League season, the team announced Wednesday that midfielder Derek &ldquo;El Tigre&rdquo; Johnson will return under contract.<\/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-36451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36451"}],"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=36451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36451"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}