{"id":2001,"date":"2019-10-18T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2019-10-18T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T19:59:59","slug":"boys-soccer-update-2019-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2019\/10\/18\/boys-soccer-update-2019-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys&#8217; Soccer Update 2019-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Matthew Lee (VI)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boys\u2019 soccer team started the first month of their season strong. Ranked as the third-best team in the state, their expectations are sky-high. With goals to win Somerset County and Non-Public \u201cA\u201d state titles, the team\u2019s mentality this year has been \u201cchampionship or bust\u201d since the first day of preseason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Pingry soccer program has the goal of winning County\u2019s and State\u2019s every year,\u201d captain John Robertson (VI) said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although these are high standards, he knows that \u201cif we can go five or six games in a row without conceding a goal, and the offense can do its job, the wins will come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pingry currently has a 9-2 record and looks to build upon the success they\u2019ve had so far. Unlike last year, the team has been finding ways to win close games. Two weeks ago, they won a two-overtime thriller against a top-twenty Hunterdon Central team. During Homecoming, they defeated Princeton Day School 6-0. Robertson attributes their success to \u201cthe depth we have at many different positions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heading into the home stretch of the season, the team will lean on its senior leadership.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe soccer team has a huge group of seniors with a lot of talent who lead by their play on the field,\u201d Robertson said. \u201cFour captains are super helpful because we can pick each other up, and there are also multiple seniors on the bench who have amazing energy and who support the team in any circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The boys look to continue their great season against Gill St. Bernard next week and into the county tournament. <br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Lee (VI) The boys\u2019 soccer team started the first month of their season strong. Ranked as the third-best team in the state, their expectations are sky-high. With goals to win Somerset County and Non-Public \u201cA\u201d state titles, the team\u2019s mentality this year has been \u201cchampionship or bust\u201d since the first day of preseason. \u201cThe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":2002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[146],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2042,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}