{"id":330315,"date":"2026-07-06T01:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330315\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T01:31:07","slug":"usl-championship-power-rankings-lexington-sc-soar-tampa-bay-rowdies-dethroned-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330315\/","title":{"rendered":"USL Championship Power Rankings: Lexington SC soar, Tampa Bay Rowdies dethroned &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming out of the USL\u2019s midseason mental health break the Championship celebrated Independence Day with plenty of fireworks. None of the top four teams in the league notched a win in Week 18, and upsets abounded. I\u2019ve been a broken record discussing the level of parity in 2026, but this weekend\u2019s results took it to a new level.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s on the rise after a jam-packed packed, and which clubs are losing ground? I\u2019m going from #1 to #25 to find out.<\/p>\n<p>1. Charleston Battery<\/p>\n<p>Trending: +1<\/p>\n<p>Result: 4-1 win v. Loudoun, 2-0 loss at Indy<\/p>\n<p>On either side of the midseason break, Charleston had the chance to show their mettle against two diametrically opposed foes. Against Loudoun, the Battery needed to take advantage of an open game state and control a high-tempo matchup. In Indy, the challenge was to break down a low block. The breadth of tools in the Battery toolkit was undeniably clear, even if the results didn\u2019t match the ideas across Weeks 17 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#194071\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming out of the USL\u2019s midseason mental health break the Championship celebrated Independence Day with plenty of fireworks.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-330315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330315","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=330315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}