{"id":474098,"date":"2026-10-23T03:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474098\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T03:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:10:09","slug":"pirates-rally-to-force-2-2-draw-against-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/474098\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Rally To Force 2-2 Draw Against North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013\u00a0Isabella Guti\u00e9rrez and <a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/caitlen-star-dolan-boodram\/14466\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14466\" target=\"_blank\">Caitlen-Star Dolan Boodram<\/a> both scored a goal as East Carolina rallied from an early 2-0 deficit to force a 2-2 draw on Thursday evening at Bill Clark Homes Field at Johnson Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>East Carolina moves to 3-4-9 overall and 2-2-4 in American Conference play while North Texas goes to 4-6-5 overall and 0-3-4 in league action. The tie also marks the sixth game that has ended at 2-2 for ECU this season.<\/p>\n<p>North Texas raced out to a 2-0 lead in the game&#8217;s first 12 minutes on back-to-back goals from Claire Niedermeier but a Mean Green handball in the box awarded the Pirates a penalty kick and a chance to cut into the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Guti\u00e9rrez calmly converted the PK to make it 2-1 at the 14-minute mark and the Pirates went into the locker room with some momentum.<\/p>\n<p>That momentum increased to start the second half after North Texas was given a red card and the Pirates took advantage as Dolan Boodram scored on a beautiful shot to equalize the game.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams had opportunities to score the go-ahead goal down the stretch including back-to-back shots from the Pirates in the final minute but both attempts were unable to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/womens-soccer\/roster\/olivia-dietrich\/14465\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14465\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Dietrich<\/a> made six saves at goalie for ECU.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEast Carolina has a bye before traveling to Memphis next Friday, Oct. 30 for an 8 p.m. ET kickoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013\u00a0Isabella Guti\u00e9rrez and Caitlen-Star Dolan Boodram both scored a goal as East Carolina rallied from an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-474098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474098","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=474098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}