{"id":1412,"date":"2018-10-01T14:54:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2018-10-08T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:55:07","slug":"soccer-comebacks-lead-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/2018\/10\/01\/soccer-comebacks-lead-to-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer Comebacks Lead to Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western Soccer (7-3) ended the weekend the same way it started with another come-from-behind victory at Spratt Memorial Stadium. On Sunday, Sept. 30, the Griffons erased a two-goal deficit against Washburn to complete the 2-0 weekend. The Griffons scored three straight goals in the second half after falling down 2-0 in the first.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Sept. 28,\u00a0the Griffons outlasted the Emporia State Hornets in a back-and-forth game that saw three ties and four lead changes. The Griffons defeated the Hornets in overtime on Friday night by a score of 4-3 to pick up their first MIAA conference win. The Griffons were down 3-2 with under a minute left when Claire Meyers <dfn><\/dfn>kept the team&#8217;s hopes alive with her game-tying goal to take the game into overtime. In overtime, it was Cassidy Menke who sent the Hornets home after converting on the penalty kick.<\/p>\n<p>The soccer team plays Fort Hays State in Hays, Kansas at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5 and at 1 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 7 at University of Nebraska-Kearney in Kearney, Nebraska.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Western Soccer (7-3) ended the weekend the same way it started with another come-from-behind victory at Spratt Memorial Stadium. On Sunday, Sept. 30, the Griffons erased a two-goal deficit against Washburn to complete the 2-0 weekend. The Griffons scored three straight goals in the second half after falling down 2-0 in the first. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1413,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}