{"id":5732,"date":"2013-05-28T18:55:18","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T22:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5732"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:08:59","slug":"green-hope-girls-cap-perfect-season-with-4-a-soccer-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5732","title":{"rendered":"Green Hope girls cap perfect season with 4-A title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/greenhope.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/greenhope.jpg\" alt=\"greenhope\" width=\"267\" height=\"188\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5733\" \/><\/a>Cary Green Hope capped a perfect season and blanked Cornelius W.A. Hough 2-0 on Saturday afternoon to win the North Carolina High School Athletic Association state 4-A women\u2019s soccer championship before a large crowd at Dail Soccer Field at North Carolina State University.<\/p>\n<p>Green Hope avenged a loss in last year\u2019s final, as it was a rematch of last year\u2019s state 4-A title match in which Sarah Moon scored two goals in the final 11 minutes to lift Hough to a 2-1 victory over Green Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Senior forward Alexis Shaffer, who scored the initial goal of the game and had an excellent all-around performance, was named the championship Most Valuable Player.<\/p>\n<p>Green Hope took a 1-0 lead in the 33rd minute when Shaffer took the ball down the right side, wheeled back to the left and fired a left-footed shot into the back of the net for her 39th goal of the season. The Falcons had the better of play for most of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, as Hough pressed forward in the final minutes, Green Hope junior midfielder Kenley Sigmon found the ball in space, dribbled through a couple of defenders and then buried a shot for the 2-0 margin with 6:34 remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Senior keeper Lisa Armstrong recorded the shutout in goal, with seven saves.<\/p>\n<p>Green Hope completed a perfect 28-0 season and has not lost since its defeat in last year\u2019s state championship game.  Hough finished the year 21-3 overall and had a seven-match win streak snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Hough was in the finals for the second straight year in just the third year of the school\u2019s existence.<\/p>\n<p>The Raleigh Sports Consortium serves as the primary host city partner for the women&#8217;s soccer championship, along with the Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau.<\/p>\n<p><em>NORTH CAROLINA HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION<\/p>\n<p>STATE 4-A WOMEN&#8217;S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIP<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dail Soccer Field, N.C. State University<\/p>\n<p>Cary Green Hope 1 1&#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>Cornelius W.A. Hough 0 0&#8211; 0<\/p>\n<p>SCORING<\/p>\n<p>33rd minute GH\u2014Alexis Shaffer (Mo McDonnell)<\/p>\n<p>74th minute GH\u2014Kenley Sigmon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cary Green Hope capped a perfect season and blanked Cornelius W.A. Hough 2-0 on Saturday afternoon to win the North Carolina High School Athletic Association&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5871,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5732\/revisions\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}