{"id":10957,"date":"2023-11-13T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/lewiston-soccer-team-wins-state-title-weeks-after-mass-shooting\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T07:03:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:33:16","slug":"lewiston-soccer-team-wins-state-title-weeks-after-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/lewiston-soccer-team-wins-state-title-weeks-after-mass-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewiston soccer team wins state title weeks after mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com\/image\/upload\/t_fit_1500w\/rockcms\/2023-11\/231112-lewiston-maine-highschol-soccer-team-victory-wm-442p-78d01e.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"\">OAKLAND, Maine \u2014 The boys&#8217; high school soccer team in the Maine city that was the site of a mass shooting more than two weeks ago has won the state title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Lewiston High School Blue Devils beat Portland&#8217;s Deering High School Rams 3-2 on Saturday in the Class A state championship game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The shootings at a bowling alley and a nearby bar on Oct. 25 in Lewiston killed 18 people and injured 13 others, making it the deadliest mass shooting in Maine history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe have been saying the past few weeks, \u2018Do it for the city,\u2019\u201d Lewiston goalie Payson Goyette told the Sun Journal. \u201cIt feels great to win for the city and bring some good to the city.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With about a minute left in the first overtime session, Tegra Mbele scored his second goal of the game, giving the Blue Devils the victory. After the goal, Mbele was mobbed by his teammates and some spectators in a celebration that the coach called \u201ceuphoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"endmark\">\u201cIt was the joy we brought to the fans, which made them go crazy,\u201d Mbele told the newspaper. \u201cWe just wanted to give back to the city with all they have gone through. It brings me great joy, and to everyone who made it happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] OAKLAND, Maine \u2014 The boys&#8217; high school soccer team in the Maine city that was the site of a mass shooting more than two weeks ago has won the state title. The Lewiston High School Blue Devils beat Portland&#8217;s Deering High School Rams 3-2 on Saturday in the Class A state championship game. The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}