{"id":3106,"date":"2013-10-12T16:20:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/?p=3106"},"modified":"2013-10-12T16:21:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:21:44","slug":"gor-mahia-through-to-gotv-shield-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-through-to-gotv-shield-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Gor Mahia through to GoTV shield semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gormahia.net\/images\/gotv-shield.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>courtesy of futaa.com<\/p>\n<p>Dan Sserunkuma\u2019s brace is all Gor Mahia needed to knock out Western Stima and book a semi final berth in the Shield match staged at Nyayo Stadium starting 1630hrs local time.<\/p>\n<p>The Ugandan international opened the scoring in the 38<sup>th<\/sup> minute before burying home the second in the 45<sup>th<\/sup> minute and ensure his side progress to the semis.<\/p>\n<p>From an eventful first half, Gor came back in the second half to cling on the lead as Western Stima pressed on in a bid to cancel the scores.<\/p>\n<p>Second half<\/p>\n<p>The Kakamega based side could have got it had they utilized the corner kick in the 49<sup>th<\/sup> minute after Ivo Mapunda tipped over Wesley Kemboi\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n<p>And just to add more effort at the middle of the park, Stima brought in Justin Monda for yellow carded Mustapha Ogutu in the 50<sup>th<\/sup> minute and later pulled out Nicholas Akoko for veteran Francis Ocholla, that happening in the 65<sup>th<\/sup> minute.<\/p>\n<p>Opening his account<\/p>\n<p>With the defending champions comfortably leading 2-0, they continued displaying what they are made off and almost made it 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Edwin Lavatsa latched on a loose ball outside the box in the 72<sup>nd<\/sup> minute and David Juma off his line in the Stima goal, the Upper Hill High School alumni unleashed a left foot shot but Juma punched it out for a fruitless corner.<\/p>\n<p>Impressing Joseph Wanyonyi came close to opening his account in Kogalo jersey but his efforts were denied by oncoming David Juma after being put through by Dan Sserunkuma.<\/p>\n<p>Sony Sugar<\/p>\n<p>With two minutes of added time, it was Western Stima earning few free kicks to perhaps net an equalizer but today was not their day, centre referee Sylvester Kirwa called it a day.<\/p>\n<p>Gor Mahia now join Sony Sugar who were first to make it to the semi finals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/news\/gor-mahia-through-to-gotv-shield-semis\/\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground:  !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 100% !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>courtesy of futaa.com Dan Sserunkuma\u2019s brace is all Gor Mahia needed to knock out Western Stima and book a semi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gormahia.net\/latest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}