M.A. Vignola and Mallie McKenzie each scored and the Thorns broke the NWSL record for shutout minutes at home with a 2-0 victory over Bay FC on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Thorns passed the regular-season record of 568 minutes without allowing a goal in the 64th minute of the match at Providence Park.<\/p>\n
In the 30th minute, Vignola struck a first-time volley from outside the box. Bay (3-4-2) looked to clear the ball after Portland\u2019s corner kick attempt but Vignola ran onto the ball and fired the shot right back.<\/p>\n
McKenzie added the Thorns second score off a cross from Sophia Wilson in the 77th minute, marking her first career NWSL goal.<\/p>\n
The last goal Portland allowed at Providence Park was on Oct. 4, 2025, also against Bay FC.<\/p>\n
With the win Wednesday night, the Thorns (7-2-2) now hold the No. 1 spot in the league standings, jumping the San Diego Wave by one point.<\/p>\n
Trinity Byars scored five minutes into stoppage time to pull the the Wave into a draw with the Dash.<\/p>\n
There were 13 minutes of stoppage time needed in Houston after goalkeeper Jane Campbell exited the match in the 83rd minute with a head injury.<\/p>\n
Byars\u2019 right cleat collided just above Campbell\u2019s right eye which required the game to stop for several minutes as the training staff tended to the open wound.<\/p>\n
Despite trailing for most of the match after Dudinha gave the Wave (7-3-1) the lead in the 20th minute, the Dash rallied late in the second half. Rookie Kate Faasse fired a shot from just outside the box in the 70th and Kat Radar momentarily gave Houston the lead in the 89th.<\/p>\n
With the draw, the Dash (3-5-2) snapped a three match losing streak but still has not earned a full three points since April 3rd.<\/p>\n
Angel City FC 2, Current 1<\/p>\n
Nineteen-year-old Kennedy Fuller had the winning strike in the 72nd minute to give Angel City the win at home.<\/p>\n
Giselle Thompson put Los Angeles (4-4-1) on the board quickly in the ninth minute, for Angel City\u2019s second fastest goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Ally Sentnor scored late in the first half to equalize for the Current.<\/p>\n
Kansas City (5-5-0) had an opportunity to take a lead early in the second half off a penalty kick but Angel City goalkeeper Angelina Anderson came up with the save.<\/p>\n
Angel City snapped a five-game winless streak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"M.A. Vignola and Mallie McKenzie each scored and the Thorns broke the NWSL record for shutout minutes at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[104870,136808,136807,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-329483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-association-football","tag-national-women","tag-portland-thorns-fc","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}