Trinity Rodman got the better of U.S. women\u2019s national team teammate Lindsey Heaps on Sunday night, assisting on Sofia Cantore\u2019s goal in the Washington Spirit\u2019s 1-0 victory over the visiting Denver Summit.<\/p>\n
In the day\u2019s other National Women\u2019s Soccer League matches, Racing Louisville defeated Angel City 2-1; and the Seattle Reign shut out the San Diego Wave 2-0. <\/p>\n
Cantore\u2019s goal off the underside of the crossbar in the 61st minute helped the Spirit overcome the loss of four players involved in the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n
It was the second meeting between the Spirit (10-3-3) and the expansion Summit (5-6-4). Their first encounter in March, Denver\u2019s home opener, drew more than 63,000 fans to set an NWSL single-match attendance record and ended in a scoreless draw.<\/p>\n
Rodman, who has contributed to 12 goals over her last 11 matches, was closely marked. Ayo Oke and Eva Gaetino received yellow cards for tackles on Rodman.<\/p>\n
Heaps, making her second appearance for Denver, nearly helped the Summit equalize late in the second half when she appeared to earn a penalty after a collision with the Spirit\u2019s Tara Rudd and Rebeca Bernal. But the call was overturned following a video review.<\/p>\n
Lardner\u2019s brace leads Racing Louisville<\/p>\n
Maja Lardner scored her first NWSL goal and added a second-half header to give Racing Louisville (3-10-3) the 2-1 road win over Angel City. <\/p>\n
The rookie opened the scoring in the 24th minute after midfielder Katie O\u2019Kane\u2019s long-range effort bounced through Angel City\u2019s penalty area. Lardner touched the loose ball past goalkeeper Angelina Anderson. <\/p>\n
Fischer sent a lofted ball to Lardner in the 55th minute, which she headed past Anderson.<\/p>\n
Sveind\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir scored for Angel City (7-7-1) in the 80th minute when defender Sophia Mattice sent a long ball forward.<\/p>\n
Mercado, Bugg lift Reign past Wave<\/p>\n
San Diego natives Maddie Mercado and Jordyn Bugg scored in front of their hometown crowd to give the Seattle Reign (6-7-2) the 2-0 win over the Wave.<\/p>\n
Mercado opened the scoring in the 17th minute, slipping behind the Wave\u2019s back line before meeting Ainsley McCammon\u2019s cross with a header for her third goal in three matches. <\/p>\n
Three minutes later, Sally Menti\u2019s corner kick found McCammon\u2019s head before falling to Bugg, who headed home Seattle\u2019s second goal.<\/p>\n
San Diego (9-6-2) controlled much of the second half but was unable to break through.<\/p>\n
Claudia Dickey made nine saves to preserve the clean sheet. Seattle coach Laura Harvey became the first coach in NWSL history to reach 100 wins with the same club.<\/p>\n
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AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n
Drew Renner, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trinity Rodman got the better of U.S. women\u2019s national team teammate Lindsey Heaps on Sunday night, assisting on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":828610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-828609","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\/828609","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=828609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}