Amid strong, constant winds from the east and intermittent rainfall, John F. Kennedy High School defeated Notre Dame High School 3-1 in the Interscholastic Boys High School Football League championship soccer game on Saturday at the Guam Football National Training Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cPut in all the work, and it came out in our favor in the end,\u201d said JFK\u2019s Landen Cruz, who scored two goals.<\/p>\n
Within the first few minutes of play and before the Royals\u2019 defense was fully set, the Islanders\u2019 Nehemiah Nauta received a long pass and drove in a long goal past Royals\u2019 goalkeeper Kevin Doronila.<\/p>\n
The Islanders entered halftime with a 1-nil advantage, but the lead was erased.<\/p>\n
Near the midway point of the second half, Notre Dame\u2019s Gregory Collins found himself in an one-on-one situation with Islanders goalkeeper Renzel Reburiano. With only the goalkeeper to beat, Collins was fouled from behind and Notre Dame was awarded a penalty kick. The play resulted in the Islanders\u2019 defender receiving a yellow card. Reburiano, who was injured on the play, hopped off the field and was replaced by Leiam Santos. Once play resumed, Jace Almandres lined up for the penalty kick and sent a low, hard strike into the back of the net.<\/p>\n
Reburiano, on the next play, returned to the pitch to defend his goal.<\/p>\n
With the game tied 1-1, the Islanders – as if playing with a sense of urgency, took control.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a sense of urgency, but we’re not panicking. We know what our team could do, and we knew we could come up with a win at the end,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n
About eight minutes after Almandres\u2019 goal and from 25 yards in from and left of the Royals\u2019 goal, Cruz fired a shot past Doronila. Cruz had given the Islanders the one-goal lead, but he was far from finished.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were just making the run forward, and we put pressure on their back line and ended up scoring,\u201d Cruz said.<\/p>\n
Less than two minutes after Cruz\u2019s go-ahead goal, he struck again.<\/p>\n
After a scramble in front of the Royals\u2019 goal, Cruz scored the insurance goal – creating a two-goal lead and cementing the championship.<\/p>\n
In the third-place game, which was decided in a penalty kick shootout, \u00a0the Harvest Christian Eagles defeated the defending-champion Father Duenas Memorial School Friars 4-3.<\/p>\n
Before the two overtime periods, the Eagles and Friars were knotted at 2-2. For the Eagles, Jack Tran and Hanyoung Kang scored one goal apiece. For the Friars, Trystan Santos and Sean Halehale also scored one goal each.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid strong, constant winds from the east and intermittent rainfall, John F. Kennedy High School defeated Notre Dame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[3050,57992,49,48,19826,52045,154729,52044,561,82,39828],"class_list":["post-358784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-american-football","tag-association-football","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-national-football-league","tag-nfl-seasons","tag-penalty-kick-association-football","tag-seasons-in-american-football","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-team-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}