{"id":176984,"date":"2026-04-27T03:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176984\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:15:15","slug":"goetter-amato-shine-at-unico-all-star-games-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176984\/","title":{"rendered":"Goetter, Amato shine at UNICO all-star games \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UNICO<\/p>\n

UNICO Soccer Cup girls all-star Pink Team. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA\n<\/p>\n

\"UNICO<\/p>\n

UNICO Soccer Cup boys all-star Red Team. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA\n<\/p>\n

\"UNICO<\/p>\n

UNICO Soccer Cup boys all-star Green Team. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA\n<\/p>\n

\"Mid<\/p>\n

Mid Valley\u2019s Sofia Goetter, the Melanie Naro MVP award winner. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA\n<\/p>\n

\"North<\/p>\n

North Pocono\u2019s Michael Amato, the Melanie Naro MVP award winner. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA\n<\/p>\n

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UNICO Soccer Cup girls all-star Pink Team. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA\n<\/p>\n

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Mid Valley\u2019s Sofia Goetter and North Pocono\u2019s Michael Amato earned the girls and boys Melanie Naro Memorial MVP awards at the UNICO Soccer Cup LIAA senior all-star games Sunday at Mid Valley.<\/p>\n

Goetter, an Ohio State commit, had three goals and three assists to lead the Green Team to a 9-4 victory over the Pink Team, and Michael Amato scored two goals for the Green Team, as the Red Team beat the Green Team, 3-2, in the boys game.<\/p>\n

The UNICO Scranton chapter sponsored the games, and partnered with the American Cancer Society to raise money for cancer awareness.<\/p>\n

In the girls game, Delaware Valley\u2019s Krystina Orby scored the Green Team\u2019s first two goals off assists from Goetter and Valley View\u2019s Mya Cesarini for a 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Old Forge\u2019s Mia Peregrim answered with a penalty kick to cut the Pink Team deficit to 2-1. Then Goetter scored off an assist from Valley View\u2019s Callie Gillen, but Abington Heights\u2019 Lilia Calvert, of the Pink Team, answered to cut the deficit to 3-2 before the Green Team scored the next three goals.<\/p>\n

Mid Valley\u2019s Karina Goetter scored off an assist from her twin sister Sofia, Gillen scored unassisted and Cesarini scored off an assist from Karina Goetter to give the Green Team a 6-2 lead at the half.<\/p>\n

Calvert, a Rutgers commit, added two unassisted goals in the second half, Sofia Goetter had two unassisted goals and Karina Goetter scored off an assist from Sofia Goetter in the second half.<\/p>\n

First: Green \u2014 Orby (assisted by S. Goetter), 10:09. Green \u2014 Orby (assisted by Cesarini), 12:15. Pink \u2014 Peregrim (PK), 17:13.Green \u2014 S. Goetter (assisted by Gillen), 19:34. Pink \u2014 Calvert, 21:39. Green \u2014 K. Goetter (assisted by S. Goetter), 31:09. Green \u2014 Gillen, 34:34. Green \u2014 Cesarini (assisted by K. Goetter), 38:40; Second:\u00a0Pink \u2014 Calvert, 48:15. Green \u2014 S. Goetter, 51:26. Green \u2014 K. Goetter (assisted by S. Goetter), 52:24. Pink \u2014 Calvert, 61:55. Green \u2014 S. Goetter, 64:30.<\/p>\n

Boys<\/p>\n

Holy Cross\u2019 Jamie Prislupski scored the game-winning goal with 1:59 left to lead the Red Team to a 3-2 victory over the Green Team in the boys game.<\/p>\n

Amato gave the Green Team a 2-1 lead in the first half, scoring two unassisted goals. Blue Ridge\u2019s Riley Phillips scored the Red Team\u2019s first-half goal.<\/p>\n

Dunmore\u2019s Johnley Jean tied the game on an unassisted goal at 66:37, and Prislupski completed the Red Team\u2019s rally with an unassisted goal at 78:01.<\/p>\n

First: Red \u2014 Amato, 30:09. Green \u2014 Philips, 31:29. Red \u2014 Amato, 37:05; Second: Red \u2014 Jean, 66:37. Red \u2014 Prislupski, 78:01.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNICO Soccer Cup girls all-star Pink Team. COURTESY OF AYDEN TEMPESTA UNICO Soccer Cup boys all-star Red Team.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[305,178,180,179,726],"class_list":["post-176984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-high-school-sports","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}