Mallory Swanson scored her first goal since returning from maternity leave, propelling the Chicago Stars to a 1-0 win Sunday over Bay FC, which was booked for two red cards in the match.<\/p>\n
In other action around the National Women\u2019s Soccer League, the Kansas City Current topped the Portland Thorns 3-1 and the Orlando Pride beat San Diego Wave 1-0.<\/p>\n
On a breakaway in the 11th minute, Stars forward Jordyn Huitema was fouled near the top of the box by Bay defender Aldana Cometti, who received a red card. The ensuing free kick by midfielder Brianna Pinto was denied by goalkeeper Jordyn Silkowitz.<\/p>\n
Despite being down a player, it appeared as if Bay (3-5-2) took the lead on Taylor Huff\u2019s right-footed shot in the 39th minute. After the video review, the goal was called back because of an offside infraction.<\/p>\n
Attempting to stop a long ball over the top, Silkowitz came out of her box and handled the ball, resulting in Bay\u2019s second red card in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n
The Stars (3-8-0) finally broke the deadlock on Swanson\u2019s left-footed blast in the 70th. In just her second game back from maternity leave, the forward scored her first goal since July 6, 2024.<\/p>\n
Swanson was subbed off in stoppage time after going down from a challenge of defender Maddie Moreau.<\/p>\n
The Stars snapped a four-game losing streak with the win.<\/p>\n
LaBonta and Chawinga score in Current comeback<\/p>\n
The Current tied an NWSL record by extending their home unbeaten streak to 22 games with their win over the Thorns.<\/p>\n
Portland forward Sophia Wilson opened the scoring in the 14th minute with a left-footed shot that beat goalkeeper Lorena near-post for the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Current captain Lo\u2019eau LaBonta leveled the match in the 41st with her first goal of the season.<\/p>\n
Reigning MVP Temwa Chawinga was left wide open and calmly finished for her sixth goal of the season and the 2-1 lead in the 63rd. Chawinga found substitute Haley Hopkins in stoppage time for the margin.<\/p>\n
All three losses and goals allowed for the Portland Thorns (7-3-2) have come on the road.<\/p>\n
The Current (6-5-0) remain undefeated in five home matches this season.<\/p>\n
Payne scores for Pride on the road<\/p>\n
After missing last season due to injury, Nicole Payne scored her first professional goal in just her third game back for the Orlando Pride (4-5-2).<\/p>\n
In first half stoppage time, Payne\u2019s pinpoint shot from outside the box provided visiting Orlando the 1-0 lead that they would never relinquish to the Wave (7-4-1).<\/p>\n
Anna Moorhouse made five saves for her fourth clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mallory Swanson scored her first goal since returning from maternity leave, propelling the Chicago Stars to a 1-0…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[10708,9677,71261,137747,8858,88,90,89,12903],"class_list":["post-332439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-fc","tag-chicago-stars","tag-mallory-swanson","tag-maternity-leave","tag-nwsl","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-womens-soccer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332439","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=332439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}