{"id":36458,"date":"2026-06-01T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=36458"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:08:13","slug":"oak-knoll-wins-union-county-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/?p=36458","title":{"rendered":"Oak Knoll Wins Union County Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/16.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/16.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/16-300x133.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child has spent the past week proving something important about championship teams: surviving a rivalry battle is one thing \u2014 responding on an even bigger stage is another.<\/p>\n<p>Oak Knoll returned to the field Saturday and defeated Kent Place again, this time 9-6 to capture the Union County Tournament title.<\/p>\n<p>In the county final, Oak Knoll built a 3-1 first-quarter lead and held a 6-3 advantage at halftime before finishing with the three-goal victory.<\/p>\n<p>Maris McGinty scored five goals in the championship game. Kierstin Oakes added two goals and one assist, while goalie Angeli Garcia made nine saves.<\/p>\n<p>Caitlyn Quinn collected four goals and one assist for Kent Place (13-2). Kent Place is 5-0 in the Stars and Stripes White Division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oak Knoll School of the Holy Child has spent the past week proving something important about championship teams: surviving a rivalry battle is one thing \u2014 responding on an even bigger stage is another. Oak Knoll returned to the field Saturday and defeated Kent Place again, this time 9-6 to capture the Union County Tournament [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":36459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149,135],"tags":[],"post_flags":[],"class_list":["post-36458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cover-feature-cranford-local","category-summitchatham-local"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36469,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36458\/revisions\/36469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36458"},{"taxonomy":"post_flag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.localmedianj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpost_flags&post=36458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}