JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Spokane Zephyr and Sporting Jacksonville traded first-half goals in quick succession and played to a 1-1 USL Super League draw at Hodges Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Spokane and Jacksonville combined for four shot attempts in the first 13 minutes before the Zephyr opened the scoring in the 18th.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ginger Fontenot threaded a pass between multiple Sporting JAX defenders to Felicia Knox near the goalie box, and Knox tucked the ball into the back of the net.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Immediately in the 23rd, Jacksonville midfielder Sophia Boman curved a shot from the top left corner of the penalty box past Hope Hisey to level the score 1-1 off an assist from Ashlyn Puerta.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jacksonville outshot Spokane 15-11 and dominated possession at a 71.9% rate, but the Zephyr\u2019s back line had 29 tackles, with 18 clearances to hold Sporting JAX\u00a0\u2013 which leads the league with 42 goals\u00a0\u2013 to just four on-target attempts.<\/p>\n
Sarah McCoy added five clearances and three interceptions. Hisey added to her league-leading tally with three saves. She now has 72.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Zephyr\u2019s defense also held the league\u2019s best scorer, Puerta\u00a0\u2013 who has 11 goals this season\u00a0\u2013 to only two shots and one chance created.<\/p>\n
Sporting JAX\u2019s back line recorded 17 clearances and 13 tackles.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spokane snapped first-placed Sporting JAX\u2019s (12-4-5) four-game winning streak. They remain unbeaten through five.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Zephyr (6-8-8) remain at No. 6, and will continue its road trip against fourth-ranked Dallas Trinity (8-7-5) next Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Then, they return to ONE Spokane Stadium in a rematch with Sporting JAX on April 19.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Spokane Zephyr and Sporting Jacksonville traded first-half goals in quick succession and played to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-210262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210262","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=210262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}