The shorthanded San Diego Sockers will play one match to decide the Major Arena Soccer League\u2019s Ron Newman Cup finals.<\/p>\n
The Milwaukee Wave forced a winner-take-all Game 3 by beating the Sockers 7-2 late Friday night in front of a Frontwave Arena-record crowd of 5,521.\u00a0 The teams will return to Oceanside on Monday night; win, and the Sockers will capture their 17th indoor soccer championship and their first MASL crown since 2022.<\/p>\n
The visitors scored the final seven goals after the Sockers had taken a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Cesar Correa scored two goals to lead Milwaukee, which will look to carry the momentum into Monday\u2019s decisive Game 3. The club is offering two-for-one ticket deals at\u00a0 frontwavearena.com and sdsockers.com.<\/p>\n
San Diego was without Cesar Cerda, Luiz Morales and Jesus Pacheco, all of whom were suspended following a fracas at the end of Game 1. All three will be available for Monday\u2019s Game 3.\u00a0Stefan Mijatovic will never play in the MASL again; he was permanently banned from the league for \u201csevere and violent conduct\u201d at the end of Game 1, the league said.<\/p>\n
Oscar Flores\u2019 status is less clear. The rookie suffered a leg injury during warmups; he did not play in Game 2, and could miss Monday\u2019s match as well. Defender<\/p>\n
Gulls\u2019 season ends in Colorado<\/p>\n
The Colorado Eagles scored four third-period goals to beat the San Diego Gulls 6-1, eliminating the club from the American Hockey League playoffs and ending their season.<\/p>\n
The two-game sweep sends the second-seeded Eagles to the AHL Pacific Division semifinals.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s Jayson Megna scored and notched an assist; Trent Miner made 26 saves.<\/p>\n
Sasha Pastujov scored the Gulls\u2019 only goal, finding the net at the 10:44 mark of the first period to pull the teams even at 1-1. Colorado would score the next five goals, eliminating seventh-seeded San Diego from the best-of-three series in two straight games. The Eagles won Wednesday\u2019s opener, 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The shorthanded San Diego Sockers will play one match to decide the Major Arena Soccer League\u2019s Ron Newman…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,32859,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-285698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-gulls","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}