{"id":184534,"date":"2026-05-05T18:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184534\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T18:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T18:04:09","slug":"youth-soccer-competes-at-penn-state-behrend-tournament-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/184534\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth soccer competes at Penn State Behrend tournament | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">ERIE \u2013 Corry Locomotives FC youth soccer traveled to Erie on Saturday to compete in the Penn State Behrend youth soccer tournament.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe arrived at 8 a.m. and didn\u2019t leave until 5 p.m.,\u201d head coach John McGeary said. \u201cI was proud to see the kids demonstrate not just skill, but teamwork, sportsmanship and enthusiasm throughout the day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Locomotives consisted of two teams, one composed of seventh and eighth graders and one composed of fifth and sixth graders. Each team played four matches against regional opponents, with several players experiencing competitive soccer for the first time. McGeary believes that the experience the players will receive through the Locomotives FC team will help prepare the players for varsity soccer down the line and give the program a winning culture.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSoccer is a game that players cannot master in a single season, or even two or three,\u201d McGeary said. \u201cIt is a process that can take years, and my hope is to be there to continue building and cultivating that winning soccer culture for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Anyone interested in learning more about the Corry Locomotives FC soccer team can find them on Facebook or reach out at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecorryjournal.com\/sports\/mailto:corrysoccer@gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">corrysoccer@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE \u2013 Corry Locomotives FC youth soccer traveled to Erie on Saturday to compete in the Penn State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-184534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184534","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=184534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}