{"id":955280,"date":"2026-11-02T08:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955280\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T08:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T08:14:14","slug":"montreal-roses-knock-off-vancouver-rise-3-0-in-nsl-semifinal-opener-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/955280\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal Roses knock off Vancouver Rise 3-0 in NSL semifinal opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793607254_905_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A soccer ball with the Northern Super League logo sits on a table before a league news conference on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan Cairns<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNov 1, 2026 | 7:14 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>VANCOUVER \u2014 The Montreal Roses won the Supporters\u2019 Shield this year for finishing first in the six-team Northern Super League\u2019s regular season.<\/p>\n<p>The NSL front-runners demonstrated Sunday they have their eyes focused on a much bigger prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Roses opened their two-leg semifinal series \u2014 and pursuit of the Diana B. Matheson Cup \u2014 with a convincing 3-0 win over the Vancouver Rise at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, B.C.<\/p>\n<p>Elyse Bennett opened scoring in the 12th minute, and teammate Marie-Yasmine Alidou doubled the lead 19 minutes later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A soccer ball with the Northern Super League logo sits on a table before a league news conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":955281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-955280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955280","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=955280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}