{"id":660506,"date":"2026-05-10T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T16:28:09","slug":"cardinal-newman-boys-soccer-is-pushed-to-the-limit-in-a-1-0-victory-in-the-scisa-4a-state-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/660506\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinal Newman boys soccer is pushed to the limit in a 1-0 victory in the SCISA 4A state championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cardinals have won seven consecutive state titles, but Porter Gaud proved it has also has a program that is capable of playing at a high level.<\/p>\n<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2014 One goal was all it took for Cardinal Newman to win a seventh consecutive state championship, but that halftime lead was quite tenuous as Porter Gaud made a couple of adjustments which provided several close calls against the Cardinal defense.<\/p>\n<p>But goalkeeper Ben Smoak pitched a shutout and the Jasper Westfall header in the first half was the difference as the Cardinals defeated Porter Gaud 1-0 to win the SCISA 4A state championship at St. Sebastian Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 12th state title for head coach Will Eudy who in years past, has seen his team post comfortable margins of victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cardinals have won seven consecutive state titles, but Porter Gaud proved it has also has a program&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-660506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660506","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=660506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}