{"id":28233,"date":"2022-12-23T22:48:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T03:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=28233"},"modified":"2022-12-23T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T03:48:56","slug":"second-ruggles-hat-trick-in-four-games-lifts-florida-tropics-over-baltimore-blast-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/12\/23\/second-ruggles-hat-trick-in-four-games-lifts-florida-tropics-over-baltimore-blast-7-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Ruggles hat trick in four games lifts Florida Tropics over Baltimore Blast 7-3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At this pace, Drew Ruggles will score 48 goals this season in the Major Arena Soccer League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"28236\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FLA-vs-BAL-photo-Christopher-Arnold-3936-1.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28236\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Florida Tropics vs Baltimore Blast (Photographer: Christopher Arnold)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"28235\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FLA-vs-BAL-photo-Christopher-Arnold-5044.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28235\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Florida Tropics vs Baltimore Blast (Photographer: Christopher Arnold)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"28234\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FLA-vs-BAL-photo-Christopher-Arnold-3955.jpg?w=1110&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28234\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Florida Tropics vs Baltimore Blast (Photographer: Christopher Arnold)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">not likely to happen, but there&#8217;s no denying he&#8217;s on one heckuva hot streak right now, getting his second hat trick in four games to lift the Florida Tropics to a 7-3 win over the Baltimore Blast Friday night at the RP Funding Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruggles had a hat trick in the Tropics season opening win, also against the Blast, in Baltimore Dec. 10 as Florida took a tense 7-6 win. Friday&#8217;s game was less in doubt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Baltimore scored the first goal of the game, the Tropics got six of the next seven to comfortably pull away. Florida improves to 3-0-1 on the season (10 points) to move into first place in the MASL&#8217;s eastern division. Baltimore falls to 2-3-1 (five points).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 2019-20 MASL Defender of the Year now has eight goals and three assists and is second overall in goal scoring in the league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tropics also got two goals and assist from Zach Reget, three assists from Vini Dantas and a goal and an assist from Victor Parreiras.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Blast beat the Tropics in a shootout Wednesday night, 5-4. &#8220;I wanted to see how we responded for a disappointing loss two days ago to the same team, and everyone stepped up in a major, professional way, the way I knew we would,&#8221; Coach Clay Roberts said. &#8220;It&#8217;s early in the season, but this was, in many ways, such an important result for us.&#8221; Lucas Roque and Moises Gonzalez had a goal and an assist each to lead the Blast offense. Florida outshot Baltimore 37-32, with Jorge Navarrete getting his third win in goal for the Tropics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Florida will be back in action next Wednesday, Dec. 28 in Utica before returning home to meet the Chihuahua Savage on Friday, Dec. 30 at the RP Funding Center<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this pace, Drew Ruggles will score 48 goals this season in the Major Arena Soccer League. not likely to happen, but there&#8217;s no denying he&#8217;s on one heckuva hot&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-florida-tropics-sc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28238,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28233\/revisions\/28238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}