Houston, Texas (Oct. 18, 2026) \u2013 The Orlando Pride (11-14-3, 36 points) earned a 2-1 victory over the Houston Dash (8-14-6, 30 points) on Sunday afternoon\u00a0at Shell Energy Stadium. <\/p>\n
Orlando struck first in the 15th minute when Solai Washington earned a penalty inside the Houston area. Luana calmly converted from the spot to give the Pride a 1-0 advantage and score her second career goal for the club across all competitions. <\/p>\n
Washington doubled the Pride\u2019s lead in the 31st minute with her first professional goal.\u00a0Marta received a pass near the center circle,\u00a0spun away from her marker and sent a perfectly weighted ball into space for Washington. The rookie forward outran her defender and tucked a composed finish inside the far post to make it 2-0. <\/p>\n
Houston cut the deficit in half in the 54th minute, as Danielle Colaprico was first to react to a loose ball in the six-yard box following a corner kick.<\/p>\n
\n Interim Head Coach Yolanda Thomas:<\/p>\n
\u201cReally happy with the three points, so I think that\u2019s the most important thing. We get out of here with a win. We had a really fantastic first half; not a great performance in the second half, but finding a way to win is what matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Orlando Pride Forward Solai Washington:<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously great to get three points on the road. I think there\u2019s some things that we\u2019re still fixing. Like, I think in the second half we could have been more clinical, but it\u2019s good that we go three points and now we\u2019re just going to take the positives and prove that when we start our next game at home.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Pride will now return to Central Florida for their final home match of the regular season as they host Gotham FC on Sunday, Oct. 25, at Inter.co Stadium (3 p.m. ET | CBS Sports Network).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Houston, Texas (Oct. 18, 2026) \u2013 The Orlando Pride (11-14-3, 36 points) earned a 2-1 victory over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[9576,169263,9946,26193,6659,115,139,141,140,3968,6230,89862],"class_list":["post-431603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-barbra-banda","tag-houvsorl-10-18-2026","tag-kerry-abello","tag-luana","tag-marta","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-pride","tag-rafaelle-souza","tag-solai-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431603","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=431603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}