{"id":359687,"date":"2026-08-01T04:53:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359687\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T04:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T04:53:06","slug":"ijeh-has-3-goals-in-north-carolinas-5-0-rout-of-orlando-wral-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359687\/","title":{"rendered":"Ijeh has 3 goals in North Carolina&#8217;s 5-0 rout of Orlando :: WRAL.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CARY, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Evelyn Ijeh scored three goals to lead the North Carolina Courage in a 5-0 victory over the Orlando Pride in the lone National Women&#8217;s Soccer League match on Friday night. <\/p>\n<p>Lauryn Thompson and Ashley Sanchez also scored for the Courage (7-6-3), who snapped a three-game losing streak.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson opened scoring with her first career goal in the fourth minute. Ijeh scored two first-half goals to give the Courage a 3-0 lead at the break. She added another in the 70th minute for her first career hat trick. Ijeh has seven goals and two assists in her last eight games. <\/p>\n<p>Courage goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan had two saves for the shutout. <\/p>\n<p>Sanchez scored her team-leading 10th goal of the season in stoppage time. Sanchez ranks second in the league for goals behind the Pride&#8217;s Barbra Banda, who was not available for the Pride (7-9-2) because she is playing for Zambia in the Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations. <\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CARY, N.C. (AP) \u2014 Evelyn Ijeh scored three goals to lead the North Carolina Courage in a 5-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[25123,2205,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-359687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-ap-sports","tag-associated-press","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359687","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=359687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}