ORLANDO, Fla. (March\u00a020, 2026) \u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Orlando Pride (0-1-1,\u00a01\u00a0point)\u00a0drew 1-1 against\u00a0Denver Summit FC (0-1-1,\u00a01\u00a0point)\u00a0at\u00a0Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium on Friday evening in the\u00a0first-ever matchup between the two sides.<\/p>\n
Jacquie Ovalle had initially put the Pride ahead in the 12th minute, but the goal was ruled offside in the build-up. German\u00a0forward\u00a0Melissa K\u00f6ssler\u00a0then\u00a0opened the scoring for the\u00a02026\u00a0expansion side\u00a0in the 24th\u00a0minute after being played through on goal by\u00a0Ayo Oke.\u00a0Orlando\u00a0nearly leveled\u00a0the match on two separate occasions with shots from outside of the box. First, Summer Yates\u00a0hit the crossbar\u00a0in the 32nd\u00a0minute\u00a0before\u00a0Ovalle\u2019s long-range effort\u00a0in the\u00a042nd\u00a0minute\u00a0forced a\u00a0diving save from Denver\u2019s\u00a0Abby Smith, who made a career-high 10 saves on the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Pride\u00a0finally found an equalizer\u00a0in the 61st minute\u00a0through\u00a0Barbra Banda, celebrating\u00a0her 26th birthday on the night.\u00a0Ovalle\u00a0was involved once more,\u00a0fielding a cross from the right wing that\u00a0Banda\u00a0headed in for her\u00a0second goal\u00a0in as many games this season.\u00a0The goal also marked Ovalle\u2019s\u00a0first assist of the year and her third while donning the Pride kit.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Next up for the Pride is a\u00a0two-game\u00a0road trip, first\u00a0traveling\u00a0to\u00a0Martin Stadium\u00a0on Wednesday, March 25,\u00a0to\u00a0take on Chicago Stars FC\u00a0(8 p.m. ET;\u00a0Victory+) before facing defending NWSL champions Gotham FC on Sunday, March 29 (7 p.m. ET; Victory+).<\/p>\n
\n Head Coach Seb Hines:<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, we want to win games at home,\u00a0but\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0never a lack of\u00a0effort.\u00a0I think the effort\u00a0was there today.\u00a0I think there\u00a0was a good response from last week\u2019s\u00a0disappointing\u00a0result.\u00a0We\u2019re\u00a0creating a lot of chances, but\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0getting punished for errors at the back.\u00a0I think when you give teams an opportunity, like we\u00a0have done in the last two games,\u00a0they\u2019ll\u00a0punish us and they have done.\u00a0We\u00a0have\u00a0to\u00a0be\u00a0more switched\u00a0on,\u00a0cut off the\u00a0angles better and not allow teams any opportunities to get up in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pride will travel to\u00a0Martin Stadium\u00a0to face Chicago Stars FC\u00a0on Wednesday, March 25.\u00a0Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. ET on Victory+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO, Fla. (March\u00a020, 2026) \u2013\u00a0The\u00a0Orlando Pride (0-1-1,\u00a01\u00a0point)\u00a0drew 1-1 against\u00a0Denver Summit FC (0-1-1,\u00a01\u00a0point)\u00a0at\u00a0Inter&Co\u00a0Stadium on Friday evening in the\u00a0first-ever matchup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200110,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9576,89864,6233,115,139,141,140,3968,91776,89861],"class_list":["post-200109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-barbra-banda","tag-hannah-anderson","tag-jacquie-ovalle","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-pride","tag-orlvsden-03-20-2026","tag-seven-castain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200109","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=200109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}