The Washington Spirit made it four wins in a row following their 4-2 win in Orlando. Washington forward Sofia Cantore set the tone early with a goal in the second minute of play. <\/p>\n
Trinity Rodman found Cantore open near the top of the box and Cantore took care of the rest hitting the right side of the net. <\/p>\n
Less than four mintues later, Spirit goalkeeper Sandy MacIver made a diving fantastic save that sparked a Spirit rush towards the opposite end of the pitch. Rodman again finding Cantore on the counter-attack, with Cantore making a move around Orlando goalkeeper Anna Moorhouse and drilling a shot into an open net for a 2-0 lead. <\/p>\n
The Cantore tallies set a NWSL record for the fastest brace in league history.<\/p>\n
The match was delayed for 97 minutes due to weather.<\/p>\n
In the 33rd minute, the Pride awarded a penalty kick, however MacIver stopped the Ally Lemos shot. On the ensuing corner kick, the ball would find the foot of Barbra Banda who delivered on a spinning turnaround shot into the back of the net to draw the Pride deficit to 2-1.<\/p>\n
Six minutes later, the Pride strike again, via another Banda shot that beat MacIver near post to level the score. <\/p>\n
In the second half, Leicy Santos finding a streaking Claudia Mart\u00ednez who scored her second NWSL goal.<\/p>\n
Then in the 71st minute, Rosemonde Kouassi on a run down the right side and sent a picture perfect cross to Trinity Rodman for another highlight goal, making the score 4-2.<\/p>\n
The next stop on the Spirit road trip is in Seattle Sunday May 10th, facing Seattle Reign FC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Washington Spirit made it four wins in a row following their 4-2 win in Orlando. Washington forward…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-256198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256198","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=256198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}