{"id":413463,"date":"2026-07-27T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:24:13","slug":"san-diego-wave-fc-falls-2-0-to-seattle-reign-fc-at-snapdragon-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413463\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Wave FC Falls 2-0 to Seattle Reign FC at Snapdragon Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (July 26, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 San Diego Wave FC (9-6-2, 29 points) fell 2-0 to Seattle Reign FC (6-7-2, 20 points) on Sunday afternoon at Snapdragon Stadium.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seattle opened the scoring in the 17th minute when Ainsley McCammon delivered a lofted ball into the penalty area that found the head of Maddie Mercado, who directed her header into the back of the net for her third goal in as many matches.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Reign doubled their advantage three minutes later following a corner kick. McCammon\u2019s service was headed toward goal before 19-year-old Jordyn Bugg redirected the ball on frame with a second header to make it 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>San Diego continued to push for a response throughout the\u00a0remainder\u00a0of the match, outshooting Seattle 22-9 and holding 61% possession. The Wave created several quality chances, but Seattle goalkeeper Claudia Dickey recorded eight saves to preserve the clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the schedule:\u00a0San Diego Wave FC travel to Washington D.C. to play the Spirit on\u00a0Sunday,\u00a0August\u00a02 at Audi Field. The match is scheduled to kick off at 1:00 p.m. PT and will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network and locally on FOX 5\/KUSI San\u00a0Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Social: Twitter \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sandiegowavefc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sandiegowavefc<\/a>\u00a0| Instagram \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sandiegowavefc\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@sandiegowavefc<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SanDiegoWaveFC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notes:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Forward Melanie Barcenas\u00a0made her 50th regular season appearance to become the youngest in Club history for San Diego and the second youngest player in the NWSL, after Olivia Moultrie.\u00a0<br \/>\nGoalkeeper\u00a0Sandra Pa\u00f1os made her NWSL debut for San Diego\u00a0in today\u2019s match.\u00a0<br \/>\nForward Adriana Leon made her first appearance of the 2026 NWLS season.\u00a0<br \/>\nSan Diego\u00a0attempted\u00a022 shots in this game, the highest total in a single match in the NWSL this season. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Box Score:<br \/>San Diego Wave FC\u00a00:2\u00a0Seattle Reign\u00a0FC<\/p>\n<p>Scoring Summary:\u00a0<br \/>SEA \u2013 Mercado (5)\u00a0(McCammon, 3)\u00a017\u2019<br \/>SEA \u2013 Bugg (1) (McCammon, 4) 20\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Misconduct Summary:<br \/>SEA \u2013 McClernon (Caution) 25\u2019<br \/>SEA \u2013 Mercado (Caution) 45+2\u2019<br \/>SD \u2013 Corley (Caution) 48\u2019<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Wave FC:\u00a0GK\u00a0Pa\u00f1os, D Morroni\u00a0(Wynalda 83\u2019), D McNabb, D Wesley, D Van Zanten,\u00a0M Gia Corley\u00a0(Fusco 84\u2019), M Fazer\u00a0(Godfrey 60\u2019), M Ascanio, F Ludmila, F Byars\u00a0(Leon 68\u2019), F Barcenas<br \/>Subs not used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Agudelo,\u00a0D Harrison, M Dali, F\u00a0Portilho\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seattle Reign\u00a0FC:\u00a0GK\u00a0Dickey,\u00a0D Huerta\u00a0(Mason 88\u2019), D Bugg, D McClernon, D Brown\u00a0(Curry 72\u2019), M Meza, M McCammon, M Dahlien,\u00a0F\u00a0Menti\u00a0(James-Turner 84\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Mercado,\u00a0F\u00a0Fishel\u00a0(Adames 72\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Subs not used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Miller, M Fishlock, F Mondesir, F Ward, F Ratcliffe<\/p>\n<p>Stats Summary:\u00a0SD \/\u00a0SEA<br \/>Shots:\u00a022\u00a0\/\u00a09<br \/>Shots on Target:\u00a08\u00a0\/\u00a05<br \/>Saves:\u00a0\u00a03\u00a0\/\u00a08<br \/>Corners:\u00a07\u00a0\/\u00a03<br \/>Fouls:\u00a010\u00a0\/\u00a010<br \/>Offsides:\u00a02\u00a0\/\u00a00<br \/>Possession:\u00a061% \/\u00a039%<br \/>Attendance:\u00a010,796\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (July 26, 2026)\u00a0\u2013 San Diego Wave FC (9-6-2, 29 points) fell 2-0 to Seattle Reign FC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-413463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413463","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=413463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}