{"id":966,"date":"2025-10-15T06:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/966\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:12:09","slug":"upper-darby-comes-up-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/966\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby Comes Up Short"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:1\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/drexel-hill\/upper-darby-royals\/soccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Upper Darby<\/a> fought the good fight in their overtime  match against <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/ardmore\/lower-merion-aces\/soccer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lower Merion<\/a>  on Tuesday but wound up with a less-than-desirable result. They fell just short of the Aces by a score of  3-2. While losing is never fun, Upper Darby can&#8217;t take it too hard given the team&#8217;s big disadvantage  in MaxPreps&#8217; Pennsylvania soccer rankings (they are ranked 276th, while Lower Merion are ranked 67th).<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:2\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/drexel-hill\/upper-darby-royals\/athletes\/cristian-crespo\/?careerid=uid0fjgqjjdaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Cristian Crespo<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/pa\/drexel-hill\/upper-darby-royals\/athletes\/jonathan-gbuka\/?careerid=u7llnqejcgotd\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Jonathan Gbuka<\/a> scored both of Upper Darby&#8217;s goals,  bringing their combined season tally to seven goals.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"IDd97e6417279140d3a122f9fdf061869d\" style=\"width:48px;height:48px;border-radius:24px;\" class=\"infosentience-float-left \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1760508729_9_136eeec1-0e17-4b02-be5d-cbbb8da2e02d.gif\" alt=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display=\" none=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"ID231b15026915404e94e76897da78b45b\" style=\"color:#000000;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;padding-top:12px;font-family:Siro-Semibold,Siro;font-size:16px !important;font-weight:500;\" class=\"infosentience-standard-text infosentience-float-left \" tabindex=\"-1\">Royals<\/p>\n<p>10\/07\/25 vs Lower Merion2-309\/30\/25 @ Radnor1-009\/29\/25 vs Academy Park6-209\/25\/25 vs Ridley5-109\/18\/25 @ Conestoga0-1<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:3\">Upper Darby moved to 6-8 with that  defeat, which also ended their three-match winning streak. As for Lower Merion, they are  on a roll lately: they&#8217;ve  won three of their last four matchups. That&#8217;s provided a nice bump to their 10-2-5 record  this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"infosentience-paragraph\" style=\"order:4\"> We&#8217;ve got plenty of inter-conference action coming up soon. Upper Darby is set to  challenge  their familiar foe Haverford  at 7:00  p.m.  on Thursday. Meanwhile, Lower Merion will  face off against  rival Strath Haven  at 4:00  p.m.  on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Article generated by <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/infosentience.com\/\">infoSentience<\/a> based on data entered on MaxPreps<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upper Darby fought the good fight in their overtime match against Lower Merion on Tuesday but wound up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","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=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}