{"id":42150,"date":"2019-09-09T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/johnson-re-signs-with-the-stars-masl\/"},"modified":"2019-09-09T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T22:10:00","slug":"johnson-re-signs-with-the-stars-masl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/sports\/johnson-re-signs-with-the-stars-masl\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson re-signs with the Stars | MASL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tacoma Stars have announced the re-signing of veteran midfielder Derek Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Terms of the deal were not disclosed per league and team policy.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, a Tacoma native and Pacific Lutheran University alum, will begin his sixth season with the team when the Kent-based Stars get underway in November. He picked up three goals and a pair of assists in 14 regular season games for Tacoma in 2018-19. Johnson has tallied 69 points on 46 goals and 23 assists in 76 career games for the Stars.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Derek exemplifies effort, sacrifice and dedication to improvement,&rdquo; said coach Nick Perera. &ldquo;He can score goals and his work rate is unmatched. The organization as a whole is excited Derek is coming back.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Stars preseason friendlies kick off in September. The Stars play the Tacoma Stars Reserves and Narrows FC on Sept. 14 and 21, respectively. Both games start at 7 p.m. at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Tacoma+Soccer+Center\/@47.240491,-122.408488,15z\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x11ab1e2babb906d?sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwji87u85MTkAhXIl54KHSc5ACIQ_BIwFnoECAsQCA\" target=\"_blank\">Tacoma Soccer Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For tickets and team information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tacomastars.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">tacomastars.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tacoma Stars have announced the re-signing of veteran midfielder Derek Johnson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":42151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-42150","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\/42150"}],"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=42150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42150"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}