{"id":36694,"date":"2018-09-16T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/stars-welcome-back-hanson-a-veteran-player-and-local-product\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T18:30:00","slug":"stars-welcome-back-hanson-a-veteran-player-and-local-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/stars-welcome-back-hanson-a-veteran-player-and-local-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Stars welcome back Hanson, a veteran player and local product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tacoma Stars have announced the return of veteran Chase Hanson for the 2018-19 Major Arena Soccer League season.<\/p>\n<p>As per team and league policies, terms of the agreement were not released.<\/p>\n<p>Hanson was among team leaders with a .429 shooting percentage last season. Along with four assists, Hanson picked up six goals on just 14 shots.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Way native and Seattle University alum has appeared in 60 MASL games in his career with 25 total points (12G-13A). 21 of Hanson&rsquo;s appearances came last season.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Chase is a local player and he has been as steady as can be for us,&rdquo; said Stars coach Darren Sawatzky. &ldquo;He is a great pro, and he gets better with each season. I look forward to his leadership and continued competitive fervor in the coming months.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Stars are back in action Dec. 1, with an expanded schedule that includes 12 regular-season matches at the accesso ShoWare Center.<\/p>\n<p>For game and season tickets, call 1-844-STARS-84 or go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tacomastars.com\" target=\"_blank\">tacomastars.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-36694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694"}],"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=36694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36694"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}