{"id":276732,"date":"2026-09-01T19:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276732\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T19:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T19:56:19","slug":"epc-field-hockey-action-begins-with-pair-of-season-opening-matchups-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/276732\/","title":{"rendered":"EPC field hockey action begins with pair of season opening matchups | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. &#8211; A pair of District 11 field hockey semifinalists from last season collided in Easton for to kick off the scholastic season.<\/p>\n<p>Easton hosted Northampton and got out to an early lead thanks to goals from Lexi Tice and Avery Causa to make it 2-0 Rovers. Northampton would fight back with two goals from Emma Schall including the game-winning goal in Overtime. Madi Williamson tied things up at two in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Whitehall, the Zephyrs hosted the state quarterfinalists Parkland Trojans for their season opener. The Trojans picked up their second win of the season with a shutout 8-0 performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. &#8211; A pair of District 11 field hockey semifinalists from last season collided in Easton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4773,119,121,120,115127,6704,726],"class_list":["post-276732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_sports_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-field-hockey","tag-high-school","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276732","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=276732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}