{"id":247813,"date":"2026-04-27T02:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247813\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:12:08","slug":"zephyr-eliminate-fort-lauderdale-united-3-1-extend-playoff-hopes-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/247813\/","title":{"rendered":"Zephyr eliminate Fort Lauderdale United, 3-1, extend playoff hopes | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPOKANE, Wash. &#8211; The Spokane Zephyr earned a key 3-1 win over Fort Lauderdale United FC to stay alive in the USL Super League playoff race.<\/p>\n<p>The Zephyr needed the win to eliminate Fort Lauderdale from the playoffs and stay within one point of the last of four playoff spots.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Rapp opened the scoring in the 26th minute, followed by a Maya Hensen successful penalty in the 60th. Kiara Locklear took advantage of an untimely Spokane giveaway to bring the deficit to one, and a Lena Silano to Ally Cook counter scored the clincher in the 89th.<\/p>\n<p>The Zephyr needs to outpace DC Power and Dallas Trinity in points over the final three matches to secure a playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>Spokane next hosts Lexington SC on Saturday, May 2, at 6:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>COPYRIGHT 2026 BY KXLY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOKANE, Wash. &#8211; The Spokane Zephyr earned a key 3-1 win over Fort Lauderdale United FC to stay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,28588,23793,115,108792,110,108793,278],"class_list":["post-247813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-local-sports","tag-national-sports","tag-news","tag-spokane-zephyr","tag-sports","tag-storytracker","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247813","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=247813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}