Pietra Tordin and Reilyn Turner each had a goal and the Portland Thorns downed the Seattle Reign 2-0 on Friday night despite having two players sent off with red cards. <\/p>\n
It was the 44th match between the two Pacific Northwest National Women\u2019s Soccer League rivals. It was played before a record crowd of 21,321 fans for a Portland home opener. <\/p>\n
In other NWSL games, the Orlando Pride and the visiting Denver Summit played to a 1-1 draw; and the Washington Spirit tied 2-2 with Racing Louisville. <\/p>\n
Portland midfielder Cassandra Bogere received consecutive yellow cards in the eighth and ninth minutes, and was sent off. <\/p>\n
But it was Tordin\u2019s header that gave the Thorns the 1-0 lead in the 28th minute. Turner\u2019s goal made it 2-0 in the 37th with Tordin providing the assist.<\/p>\n
The home side lost another player in the 58th minute, when Reyna Reyes was given a straight red for violent conduct on Madison Curry.<\/p>\n
Sophia Wilson and Marie Muller made their Providence Park season debuts in the ensuing minute.<\/p>\n
The series between the teams is now tied at 17-17-10. <\/p>\n
Banda scores a birthday goal in draw<\/p>\n
Summit forward Melissa Kossler and Pride forward Barbra Banda each scored for their teams for the second consecutive game in the draw in Orlando. <\/p>\n
In the 24th minute, Kossler scored on a perfectly slipped in ball from Natasha Flint.<\/p>\n
Banda equalized on her birthday in the 61st minute on a cross into the box from Jacquie Ovalle.<\/p>\n
It was the first point earned by the expansion Summit and head coach Nick Cushing after a season-opening loss at Bay FC.<\/p>\n
Racing Louisville squanders two-goal lead and settle for home draw<\/p>\n
Kayla Fischer opened the scoring for Racing Louisville in the 28th minute with an assist from Emma Sears.<\/p>\n
Sears scored a goal of her own in the 42nd minute. Picking up a loose ball, she dribbled it end to end to finish past goalkeeper Sandy MacIver for the 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Sofia Cantore closed the gap for the Spirit in the 50th minute with a blast from outside of the box. Leicy Santos completed the comeback for the visitors with a goal in the 74th. <\/p>\n
Spirit midfielder Andi Sullivan returned from maternity leave to make her first appearance since Oct. 6, 2024. <\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
Phuoc Nguyen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pietra Tordin and Reilyn Turner each had a goal and the Portland Thorns downed the Seattle Reign 2-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550631,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-550630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}