{"id":727708,"date":"2026-06-10T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727708\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:14:08","slug":"sonis-scores-hat-trick-as-canada-routs-costa-rica-in-womens-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/727708\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonis scores hat trick as Canada routs\u00a0Costa\u00a0Rica\u00a0in women&#8217;s friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janine Sonis scored three goals, including one on a penalty in the 54th minute, and Canada women&#8217;s soccer team defeated host\u00a0Costa\u00a0Rica\u00a06-0 in an international friendly in Cartago on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Forward Evelyne Viens gave Canada a 1-0 lead in the eighth minute, while Jordyn Huitema (84th minute) and Mimi Alidou (two minutes into second-half stoppage time) finished the scoring, as the visitors dominated the match, scoring four times in the second half and controlling possession for 68 per cent of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Paula Coto of\u00a0Costa\u00a0Rica\u00a0received a red card for violent conduct in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>Canada was called for 12 of the game&#8217;s 22 fouls, while\u00a0Costa\u00a0Rica\u00a0received one yellow and one red card.<\/p>\n<p>Canada outshot the hosts 28-4 and blocked six shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janine Sonis scored three goals, including one on a penalty in the 54th minute, and Canada women&#8217;s soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-727708","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\/727708","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=727708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}