{"id":783017,"date":"2026-07-06T03:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783017\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:00:15","slug":"nsl-leading-ottawa-rapid-fc-stay-hot-with-3-1-win-over-calgary-wild-fc-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783017\/","title":{"rendered":"NSL-leading Ottawa Rapid FC stay hot with 3-1 win over Calgary Wild FC | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783292230_395_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ottawa Rapid FC&#8217;s Johanne Fridlund (right) and Vancouver Rise&#8217;s Jasmyne Spencer chase after a loose ball during the second half of an NSL semifinal soccer match, in Burnaby, B.C., on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Rich Lam<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 5, 2026 | 2:45 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 Ottawa Rapid FC built a 2-0 halftime lead and never looked back in a 3-1 win over Calgary Wild FC on Sunday in Northern Super League action.<\/p>\n<p>Keera Melenhorst, Johanne Fridlund and Jazmine Wilkinson scored for the league-leading Rapid (7-2-1), who extended their unbeaten streak to five games (4-0-1).<\/p>\n<p>Ottawa hasn\u2019t lost a game since May 23, a 2-1 defeat against Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Meggie Dougherty Howard scored for last-place Calgary (0-7-2). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ottawa Rapid FC&#8217;s Johanne Fridlund (right) and Vancouver Rise&#8217;s Jasmyne Spencer chase after a loose ball during the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":782664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-783017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783017","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=783017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}