{"id":783281,"date":"2026-07-06T06:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783281\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:15:17","slug":"nsl-leading-ottawa-rapid-fc-stay-hot-with-3-1-win-over-calgary-wild-fc-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/783281\/","title":{"rendered":"NSL-leading Ottawa Rapid FC stay hot with 3-1 win over Calgary Wild FC \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA \u2013 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>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4acfca0d7b024b67dbd0b7jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"3600\" data-pswp-height=\"2442\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a4acfca0d7b024b67dbd0b7jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Rapid FC's Johanne Fridlund (right) and Vancouver Rise'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\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOttawa 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>Meggie Dougherty Howard scored for last-place Calgary (0-7-2).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>AFC Toronto 1 Halifax 0<\/p>\n<p>HALIFAX \u2014 Kaylee Hunter scored the lone goal in the 12th minute as AFC Toronto earned a 1-0 win over Halifax Tides FC.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto (4-2-3) extended its unbeaten run to five games (3-0-2) with the win, and sits in third in the six-team league standings.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Halifax (4-4-2) had its three-game unbeaten streak halted and sits in fourth.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2013 Ottawa Rapid FC built a 2-0 halftime lead and never looked back in a 3-1 win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-783281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783281","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=783281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}