{"id":806850,"date":"2026-07-17T01:36:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806850\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:36:16","slug":"soccer-quest-aiming-for-b-c-final-after-victory-over-kamloops-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/806850\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Quest aiming for B.C. final after victory over Kamloops United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Haywood-Farmer opened the scoring from the penalty spot early in the first half and was among Soccer Quest\u2019s most-menacing threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783590790_152_indicator-big.gif\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Not long after the goal, Haywood-Farmer set up Deshawn Lewis with a delightful through ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friend, Oscar, he saw me and played the perfect ball to split the two defenders,\u201d the fleet-footed Lewis said. \u201cI just took a touch with my right and put it top bins with my left.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Fischer Hilton tallied to give Soccer Quest a 3-0 lead, Haywood-Farmer was looking for his second goal from the penalty spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This time, Kozic had his number.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the guy, he kicked it to the left last time, so I was kind of assuming he was going to kick it to the right,\u201d Kozic said. \u201cI got lucky and was right. It\u2019s awesome. It gives you a rush of energy.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Haywood-Farmer was foiled by both the woodwork and Kozic once more before halftime, but Lucas Viktora pushed Soccer Quest into a 4-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mason Friend was an enemy to Kozic\u2019s countenance early in the second half.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hit it and it hit the goalie\u2019s face and it just luckily bounced right at me, so I got to finish it,\u201d Friend said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Added Kozic: \u201cIt hit off my chest and neck and it was just an unlucky rebound. I was just happy I got the first save.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lewis moves and thinks quickly, his mind-games mastery at the spot giving Soccer Quest a 6-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cOscar took the last one left,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cI was pretty sure he [Kozic] was guessing me going\u00a0left again, but I always shoot it right, so I just put it in my normal place and always just look straight at the keeper.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Viktora bulged the old onion bag with his second of the match and Vincent\u00a0Ilic\u00a0rounded out the scoring with a long-range strike, a stellar cross-goal blast.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>United head coach Geoffrey Shimmin is proud of his club\u2019s effort in defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had good effort all the way through,\u201d he said. \u201cThey never gave up. Really impressed with that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KUFC-B dropped to 0-2 ahead of its final round-robin match, a noon clash against Richmond United on Friday [July 17] in the Singh Bowl.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Soccer Quest (2-0) will square off against Nelson at noon on Friday in the Singh Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIf we can get it done tomorrow, I think we have a really good chance in the final,\u201d Friend said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the complete tournament schedules, download the BC Soccer app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Haywood-Farmer opened the scoring from the penalty spot early in the first half and was among Soccer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-806850","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\/806850","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=806850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}