{"id":143487,"date":"2026-02-04T15:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143487\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T15:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T15:56:09","slug":"boys-soccer-maclay-mercy-rules-branford-again-in-region-1-2a-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143487\/","title":{"rendered":"BOYS SOCCER: Maclay mercy rules Branford again in Region 1-2A quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      <a class=\"expand_image\" href=\"#\" aria-label=\"Expand Image\" data-uri=\"\/sites\/lakecityreporter.com\/files\/2026-02\/IMG_1712.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_1712.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Branford's David Lopez gathers possession against Hamilton County in the District 2-2A championship on Jan. 27. (PAUL BUCHANAN\/Lake City Reporter)\" class=\"image-style-flexslider-full\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption is-sans-serif is-size-7\">Branford&#8217;s David Lopez gathers possession against Hamilton County in the District 2-2A championship on Jan. 27. (PAUL BUCHANAN\/Lake City Reporter)<\/p>\n<p>Branford&#8217;s David Lopez gathers possession against Hamilton County in the District 2-2A championship on Jan. 27. (PAUL BUCHANAN\/Lake City Reporter)<\/p>\n<p>TALLAHASSEE \u2014 Maclay looked every bit the part of a defending state champion against Branford on Tuesday night.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nBehind a hat trick and an assist from Luke Daunt, the top-seeded Marauder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Premium Content is available to subscribers only. Please login\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lakecityreporter.com\/etype-login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to access\u00a0content or go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/publisher.etype.services\/Lake-City-Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>\u00a0to purchase a subscription.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Branford&#8217;s David Lopez gathers possession against Hamilton County in the District 2-2A championship on Jan. 27. (PAUL BUCHANAN\/Lake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":{"0":"post-143487","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-tallahassee","9":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","10":"tag-tallahassee-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}