April 21, 2022 – Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) – Florida Tropics SC News Release
LAKELAND, Fla. – The Florida Tropics are hoping a little home cooking will be enough to get them through to their first ever Major Arena Soccer League championship series.
Either the Tropics or Kansas City Comets will earn their way to the MASL finals Saturday night at the RP Funding Center in Lakeland when they meet in Game Two of their Ron Newman Cup semifinal series.
The Comets took an 8-7 win last Saturday in Kansas City. The thrilling, back-and-forth affair featured 11 goals in the first half alone, but Rian Marques scored the only goal of the fourth quarter to give the Comets a one-game lead in the series.
That means the Tropics will have to first win Game Two Saturday. If that happens, the two teams will then immediately play a 15-minute “mini-game” at the conclusion of Saturday’s Game Two, with the winner moving on to the championships.
The mini-game is a full 15 minutes, and not sudden death. No carryover of any stats including fouls accumulations, penalty time and the like is carried over from game two. It is treated as a completely new game. Should the score be tied at the end of the mini-game, sudden death overtime periods of 10 minutes each will ensue until the “golden goal” is scored to determine a winner.
Kickoff for the April 23rd start in Lakeland is 6 p.m. Both Game Two and the mini-game if necessary will be broadcast live on the Twitch MASL channel. There have been two mini-games played so far in this year’s MASL post-season, with both Kansas City and Chihuahua winning at home to advance in the quarterfinals. However, there have been 32 mini-games in the sport’s history, with the results being evenly split with both the home and away teams winning 16 times each.
“We went out to Kansas City and had this back and forth epic match and ultimately they prevailed,” Head Coach Clay Roberts noted. “They’ve got some very good, very talented players obviously that we’ve…
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