Sofia Huerta converted a penalty kick in the 51st minute and the host Seattle Reign went on to beat Bay FC 2-0 at Lumen Field on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Brittany Ratcliffe added a goal in stoppage time for Seattle (11-8-4), which extended its unbeaten streak to four games.<\/p>\n
It was the third straight loss for Bay (6-13-4).<\/p>\n
Bay FC was playing without Kennedy Fuller, currently playing for the United States at the under-20 World Cup in Poland. Fuller had a hat trick in a 9-0 victory over New Zealand on Saturday as the U.S. advanced to the knockout round.<\/p>\n
The Reign have three players on the U.S. roster for the tournament: Ainsley McCammon, Emeri Adames and Evan O\u2019Steen.<\/p>\n
San Diego defeats North Carolina\u00a0<\/p>\n
Gia Corley and Melanie Barcenas scored and the San Diego Wave beat the visiting North Carolina Courage 2-1.<\/p>\n
Corley scored her first NWSL goal in the 23rd minute and Barcenas added a curling shot for a goal in the 72nd to give the Wave a 2-0 lead at Snapdragon Stadium.<\/p>\n
Ashley Sanchez got her 19th goal of the season in the 82nd and North Carolina (12-9-3) avoided the shutout.<\/p>\n
Sanchez leads the Golden Boot race with 19 goals this season, setting the record for most goals scored by an American player in a single season. She is one goal away from Temwa Chawinga’s NWSL record.<\/p>\n
The Wave (13-8-3) were without Mimi Van Zanten, who was shown a straight red card in last week’s 1-0 loss to the Reign and was unavailable for Saturday\u2019s game as a result.<\/p>\n
On Friday the Wave announced that they have signed forward Barbara Bonansea on a loan from Juventus through June 2027. The 35-year-old Italian international has appeared in two Women’s World Cups. She will join the Wave once she receives her visa.<\/p>\n
Mina Tanaka scored and the Utah Royals (13-3-8) got closer to securing their first ever playoff berth with their 1-0 victory in Houston.<\/p>\n
Tanaka had a sliding goal from out in front of Dash goalkeeper Jane Campbell in the 69th minute for the Royals, now in fourth place in the league standings.<\/p>\n
The Dash (7-6-11) have lost four straight.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sofia Huerta converted a penalty kick in the 51st minute and the host Seattle Reign went on to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[150868,111087,150869,150873,150870,150867,101994,109849,150872,105202,23681,202,196,88710,42094,197,87667,942,90349,200,82,84,83,43571,150871,150866],"class_list":["post-434543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-ainsley-mccammon","tag-ashley-sanchez","tag-barbara-bonansea","tag-brittany-ratcliffe","tag-evan-osteen","tag-gia-corley","tag-jane-campbell","tag-kennedy-fuller","tag-melanie-barcenas","tag-mimi-van-zanten","tag-package-100024-ap-online","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-32554-ap-online-soccer-game-stories","tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","tag-product-40776-ap-california-sports-only","tag-product-40804-ap-north-carolina-sports-only","tag-product-40815-ap-texas-sports-only","tag-product-40816-ap-utah-sports-only","tag-product-40820-ap-washington-state-sports-only","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news","tag-san-diego","tag-sofia-huerta","tag-wave-courage-reign-bay-dash-royals-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}