{"id":440971,"date":"2026-01-29T14:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T14:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:10:07","slug":"moorpark-boys-soccer-team-is-showing-defensive-superiority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/440971\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorpark boys&#8217; soccer team is showing defensive superiority"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If defense wins championships, the Moorpark High boys\u2019 soccer team is looking good for the playoffs. The Musketeers are 11-3-2 overall and 6-1 in the Coastal Canyon League. They\u2019ve given up four goals in seven league games.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Manny Galvez relies on junior Austin Nickels and sophomore Isaac Zapata to provide the offense, with Nickels having 11 goals and Zapata 10.<\/p>\n<p>Moorpark hosts Oak Park on Friday to decide the league title in one of the top soccer games of the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re just young, hard-working guys,\u201d Galvez said.<\/p>\n<p>Moorpark suffered a 1-0 loss to Camarillo on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a daily look at the positive happenings in high school sports. To submit any news, please email eric.sondheimer@latimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If defense wins championships, the Moorpark High boys\u2019 soccer team is looking good for the playoffs. The Musketeers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,182575,48,182577,10499,182572,5559,34096,182576,10160,7964,182571,143771,182573,561,71373,182578,82,182574],"class_list":["post-440971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-camarillo","tag-canada","tag-coach-manny-galvez","tag-defense","tag-defensive-superiority","tag-friday","tag-goal","tag-junior-austin-nickels","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-loss","tag-moorpark-boy","tag-nickel","tag-oak-park","tag-soccer","tag-soccer-team","tag-sophomore-isaac-zapata","tag-sports","tag-zapata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440971","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=440971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}