{"id":193393,"date":"2026-03-16T12:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:24:10","slug":"reign-open-the-season-with-weather-delayed-2-1-road-win-over-the-orlando-pride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193393\/","title":{"rendered":"Reign open the season with weather-delayed 2-1 road win over the Orlando Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brittany Ratcliffe\u2019s scored a late goal to give the Seattle Reign a 2-1, rain-delayed victory on the road against the Orlando Pride on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Angel City also opened the National Women’s Soccer League season with a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Stars in Los Angeles. <\/p>\n

The Reign opened the scoring in the 24th minute. N\u00e9rilia Mond\u00e9sir slipped in a pass to Jess Fishlock who put on a few nifty moves to put the visitors ahead 1-0.<\/p>\n

In the 42nd minute, off a corner kick delivery from Jacquie Ovalle, defender Rafaelle appeared to have tied it up, but it was called back due to a foul.<\/p>\n

After a lengthy weather delay of some three hours, Haley McCutcheon would find Barbra Banda in the 51st minute for the equalizer. Orlando received a major boost when Banda was removed from the season-ending injury list early this week. <\/p>\n

Five minutes after subbing on, Ratcliffe headed home the winner in the 83rd minute, with Mond\u00e9sir providing her second assist of the game.<\/p>\n

Fuller and Borges lead Angel City in season-opening rout<\/p>\n

Midfielders Kennedy Fuller and Ary Borges had a goal and assist apiece in Angel City\u2019s dominant win over the Stars.<\/p>\n

\"Angel<\/p>\n

Angel City FC defender Savy King practices with her National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) at the Angel City Performance Center in Thousand Oaks, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026. Credit: AP\/Damian Dovarganes<\/p>\n

Angel City FC found a breakthrough goal in the 33rd minute from Fuller. Chicago goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher went to make the save, but the ball slipped through her outstretched arms.<\/p>\n

After four successive corners, Evelyn Shores doubled the lead on an open header because of a defensive breakdown by Chicago.<\/p>\n

In the 66th minute, the Stars tried to play out of the back and paid the price. Ary Borges intercepted the pass and slot it home to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n

Sveind\u00eds J\u00f3nsd\u00f3ttir found an open Maiara Niehues for the final tally. <\/p>\n

The four goals were the most ACFC has scored since a 4-3 thriller over Washington Spirit on May 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

Angel City defender Savy King returned to play for the first time since suffering a cardiac event during a game on May 9th, 2025 that led to open heart surgery. She subbed into the match in the 63rd minute. <\/p>\n

Forward Jordyn Huitema started for Chicago after being acquired in a trade this week from Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brittany Ratcliffe\u2019s scored a late goal to give the Seattle Reign a 2-1, rain-delayed victory on the road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140,2062,122],"class_list":["post-193393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-soccer","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}