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The San Diego Wave\u2019s Lia Godfrey, left, battles a Washington Spirit defender during Sunday\u2019s 1-0 win over at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. (San Diego Wave)<\/p>\nSpoiled by sunny Southern California weather, the San Diego Wave encountered something they rarely see during a soccer season \u2014 rain.<\/p>\n
The 1\u00bd inches dumped on the nation\u2019s capital Sunday couldn\u2019t drown San Diego\u2019s surge, and came nowhere near cooling off the National Women\u2019s Soccer League\u2019s hottest road team.<\/p>\n
Midfielder Lia Godfrey fired home a goal in the 60th minute, and the Wave beat the Washington Spirit 1-0 on a rain-soaked Mid-Atlantic afternoon. Godfrey\u2019s fifth goal of the season was her fourth game-winner, a franchise record for clinching scores in a season.<\/p>\n
Godfrey said the Wave were \u201clocked in from the beginning,\u201d even after seeing rain in the forecast.\u00a0 The club snapped Washington\u2019s 13-match streak without a loss while holding star Trinity Rodman scoreless on two shot attempts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were like, \u2018We\u2019re going to do this. We\u2019re ready for this. We\u2019re going to do this. This rain is not going to affect us,\u2019\u201d she said with a smile. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t think it did.\u201d<\/p>\n
The San Diego Wave\u2019s Lia Godfrey, left, battles a Washington Spirit defender during Sunday\u2019s 1-0 win over at Audi Field in Washington, D.C. (San Diego Wave)<\/p>\n
The win improved the Wave to 10-6-2 this season, keeping them in fourth place in the NWSL standings. Few teams in the league have played better this season on the road than San Diego, which has won more matches away from Snapdragon Stadium (six) than at home (four). The Spirit drop to second place in the league, one point behind NJ\/NY Gotham FC.<\/p>\n
The Wave\u2019s East Coast odyssey continues Friday with a match at now-first-place Gotham. San Diego will return home Aug. 14 for the first of three consecutive Friday home matches. The club will face the expansion Denver Summit, Utah Royals and Racing Louisville before the calendar rolls to September.<\/p>\n
Notable<\/p>\n
The Wave acquired defender Brooklyn Courtnall on loan from Bay FC on Friday, though she did not see the field in Sunday\u2019s win.<\/p>\n
A Los Angeles native who played collegiately at USC, Courtnall comes from a famous family.<\/p>\n
Her father, Russ Courtnall, played more than 1,000 games in the NHL; so did her uncle, Geoff Courtnall. Brooklyn Courtnall\u2019s mom, Paris Vaughan, is an actress. Her older sister, Ally Kendricks, is a former UCLA soccer and track standout turned model who is married to longtime NFL linebacker Eric Kendricks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoiled by sunny Southern California weather, the San Diego Wave encountered something they rarely see during a soccer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,76,75,1083,127],"class_list":["post-422217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422217","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=422217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}