{"id":201193,"date":"2026-03-22T07:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201193\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T07:55:13","slug":"riverhounds-take-it-on-the-chin-at-tampa-bay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201193\/","title":{"rendered":"Riverhounds take it on the chin at Tampa Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three games into their USL Championship title defense, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds could use some work on their defense.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Cicerone, MD Myers and Evan Conway scored to lead the Tampa Bay Rowdies to a 3-0 victory Saturday night in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The Hounds (1-2) have allowed seven goals in three games.<\/p>\n<p>Cicerone, a former Riverhounds forward, gave Tampa Bay (2-0) the lead for good with a highlight-reel goal in the 47th minute. Marco Micaletto moved up the right wing and sent a long, curling cross that Cicerone headed inside the far post.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay essentially put the game away in the 77th minute when Cicerone led a fast-break counterattack, sending a pass ahead to Myers, who scored from the right side of the box.<\/p>\n<p>Conway tacked on a third goal in the 94th minute.<\/p>\n<p>The Riverhounds will be back in action Wednesday with a US Open Cup first-round matchup against Steel City FC at 7 p.m. at Highmark Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three games into their USL Championship title defense, the Pittsburgh Riverhounds could use some work on their defense.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-201193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201193","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=201193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}