{"id":456815,"date":"2026-10-05T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T08:58:10","slug":"houston-dash-lose-to-washington-spirit-on-late-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/456815\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Dash lose to Washington Spirit on late goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clara Luvanga scored in the 84th minute to lift the Washington Spirit to a 3-2 victory over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/sports\/dynamo\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Houston Dash<\/a> on Sunday night at Shell Energy Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Luvanga became the first Tanzanian player to score in a National Women\u2019s Soccer League match.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit (15-8-4) twice saw a one-goal lead disappear before\u00a0Luvanga got the winner. Claudia Mart\u00ednez, an 18-year-old rookie, set up Luvanga for a one-on-one chance against goalkeeper Jane Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Houston (8-13-6) got two goals from Miljana Ivanovic.<\/p>\n<p>Tara Rudd gave Washington the lead in the 11th minute, heading in a corner kick from Esme Morgan. Ivanovic answered before halftime, pouncing on a failed clearance and driving a shot from outside the penalty area to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Trinity Rodman and Sofia Cantore restored Washington\u2019s lead in the 51st minute. The pair broke free on a counterattack, and Rodman slipped a pass behind Houston\u2019s back line for Cantore to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Ivanovic responded again in the 59th minute, collecting a bouncing ball off a corner kick and scoring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Clara Luvanga scored in the 84th minute to lift the Washington Spirit to a 3-2 victory over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-456815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456815","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=456815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}