{"id":444,"date":"2025-10-06T16:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/?p=444"},"modified":"2025-10-06T16:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T20:09:01","slug":"mustangs-get-first-win-at-home-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/2025\/10\/06\/mustangs-get-first-win-at-home-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Get First Win at Home, 3-2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.<\/strong> &#8212; The MACU men&#8217;s soccer team got their first win at home versus The Crown College (TN), 3-2. The Mustangs were trailing 2-0 half way thru the first half and were unable to narrow the lead by halftime. They then countered with three goals in the 2nd half. The go-ahead goal was a header by Jacob Nixon from a corner kick by Alex Fernandez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Rose scored unasissted (5th). Dedrick Blow scored on a penalty kick (5th). Jacob Nixon scored with a header (2nd) off an Alex Ferandez corner (3rd).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Rodriquez remarked, &#8220;We had a great effort in the second half. The guys really stepped up and had one of the greatest comebacks in our program.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story courtesy MACU Athletics; Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/@jaenix?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Jannik<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/person-playing-soccer-mY2ZHBU6GRk?utm_content=creditCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=unsplash\">Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8212; The MACU men&#8217;s soccer team got their first win at home versus The Crown College (TN), 3-2. The Mustangs were trailing 2-0 half way thru the first half and were unable to narrow the lead by halftime. They then countered with three goals in the 2nd half. The go-ahead goal was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/msoccer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}