Kimmi Ascanio broke a late tie and the San Diego Wave beat the Washington Spirit 2-1 on Friday night to take the top spot in the NWSL standings.<\/p>\n
In other games Friday night; Gotham FC beat Seattle 2-0; Kansas City topped Houston 3-0, and Boston and Bay FC tied 1-1.<\/p>\n
In the 89th minute, Kenza Dali\u2019s corner kick delivery found Ascanio for a header for the Wave (7-3-0). The Spirit (5-2-3) had won five in a row.<\/p>\n
Trinity Byars scored her first professional goal to put the Wave ahead in the seventh minute. Rebeca Bernal tied it in the 33rd.<\/p>\n
Shaw leads Gotham FC over Seattle<\/p>\n
Jaedyn Shaw scored for the third straight game to lead Gotham FC to a 2-0 win over Seattle.<\/p>\n
Shaw opened up the scoring in the 24th minute off an assist from Savannah McCaskill. Off a recycled corner kick, Tierna Davidson would double the lead in the 57th minute.<\/p>\n
Goalkeeper Ann-Katrin Berger made two saves en route to her seventh clean sheet of the season, the most in the NWSL.<\/p>\n
Seattle (3-4-2) hasn\u2019t scored in 499 minutes and is winless in five games.<\/p>\n
Kansas City Current win third consecutive game<\/p>\n
Forward Temwa Chawinga scored her fourth and fifth goals of the season, leading the Current (5-4-1) to a 3-0 victory over Houston.<\/p>\n
Lorena made five saves for her second consecutive shutout for KC (5-4-1). The Dash (3-5-1) are winless in five games.<\/p>\n
Boston salvages tie<\/p>\n
Boston overcame an early red card to salvage the tie, with the Legacy now 2-5-3 and Bay FC 3-3-2.<\/p>\n
In the 42nd minute, Boston defender Bianca St-Georges received her second red card of the season for violent conduct on Claire Hutton. <\/p>\n
Bay FC took advantage with Dorian Bailey left-footed strike in the 50th minute. Amanda Gutierres tied it on a penalty kick in the 64th.<\/p>\n
Phuoc Nguyen, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimmi Ascanio broke a late tie and the San Diego Wave beat the Washington Spirit 2-1 on Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-673001","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\/673001","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=673001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}