{"id":8707,"date":"2021-05-15T18:50:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T18:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=8707"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:23:14","slug":"madera-suffers-ot-loss-against-sjm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-suffers-ot-loss-against-sjm\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera suffers OT loss against SJM"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite a valiant defensive effort, the Madera High boys soccer team gave up a goal in overtime and lost, 1-0, to San Joaquin Memorial-Fresno<\/p>

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The Panthers found the winner with five minutes left in the second overtime when Nick Safadi connected with John Gleason on Tuesday in Memorial Stadium.<\/p>

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\u201cThe ball just dropped to the striker\u2019s feet and it was good placement,\u201d Madera head coach Nic Landeros said. \u201cWith our goalkeeper facing the sun, it\u2019s different playing this time of the year,. He\u2019s facing the sun and maybe he saw it a little late.\u201d<\/p>

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Although the loss left a bad taste on senior night for the Coyotes, Landeros was happy with the effort from the older players.<\/p>

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\u201cAll the seniors started and they came out hungry,\u201d Landeros said. \u201cThe message before the game was, \u2018Seniors, you decide how long you want to stay on the field.\u2019 Some of them said, \u2018I\u2019m going to play the whole game,\u2019 and they proved it.\u201d<\/p>

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The Coyotes turned up the effort in the second half after struggling to get chances in the first 40 minutes.<\/p>

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Madera\u2019s Elias Zuniga had a chance to open the scoring in the 47th minute. However, his shot from inside the box sailed over the bar. San Joaquin Memorial immediately responded with their own attack. But Alex Bryan was unable to connect with the ball in front of goal as a pass came from the wing. A minute later, Madera goalkeeper Ivan Ovando came up with a save as Safadi put a shot on target.<\/p>

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Zuniga missed another chance in the 58th minute when his shot from close range went just wide of the goal. Madera junior Elmer Garcia also launched a shot from inside the box in the 70th minute and failed to find the target. The last opportunity of regulation came in the final seconds as senior Jonah Hill launched a strike, which went straight to the keeper.<\/p>

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Madera found a rare chance in overtime when Garcia took a shot from just outside the box which went too high. Later in the second period of overtime, Zuniga saw the keeper out of his box and attempted a shot from long range. But the shot was blocked by a defender as soon as it left the striker\u2019s foot.<\/p>

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The Panthers then came back with the deciding goal in the second period of overtime.<\/p>

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\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to play a team that sends the long ball,\u201d Landeros said. \u201cWhenever we build, we like to press high from the front. But if a team sends it right back, it\u2019s very difficult to continue to stay in our attacking half. It\u2019s just a different style of play, one that\u2019s difficult to play against.\u201d<\/p>

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Still, the head coach praised his team\u2019s effort.<\/p>

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\u201cI think today, we were the better team,\u201d he said. \u201cThey just happened to get the goal. We didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite a valiant defensive effort, the Madera High boys soccer team gave up a goal in overtime and lost, 1-0, to San Joaquin Memorial-Fresno The Panthers found the winner with five minutes left in the second overtime when Nick Safadi connected with John Gleason on Tuesday in Memorial Stadium. \u201cThe ball just dropped to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":26702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-8707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}