{"id":105324,"date":"2025-08-23T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105324\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T23:18:07","slug":"washington-spirit-hang-onto-lead-to-down-bay-fc-in-front-of-record-crowd-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/105324\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Spirit hang onto lead to down Bay FC in front of record crowd &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 28 points already in pocket coming into the day, the Washington Spirit aided in their playoff push with a 3-2 win against Bay FC before a record crowd in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Kate Wiesner and Croix Bethune scored in the seventh and 39th minutes, respectively, as Washington (9-4-4, 31 points) took over second place in the NWSL league standings, moving past the Orlando Pride, who next play on Aug. 29, and San Diego Wave FC, who take on Louisville Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Playing in front of a NWSL record 40,091 fans (surpassing the previous record of 35,038 for Chicago\u2019s June 8, 2024 match with Bay FC), Bay FC (4-8-5, 17 points) overcame an own-goal late in the first half with a tally from Racheal Kundananji three minutes later, cutting a 3-0 deficit down to 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>A 54-minute goal by Kelli Hubly drew them closer, but the Spirit held Bay FC off the sheet the rest of the way. Goalkeeper Aubrey Kingsbury knocked away a last-ditch effort from Jordan Silkowitz in the sixth minute of extra time as part of a five-save day. <\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<p>                                            <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755991087_537_be4452b65ace878d206f2029709048c825036e3517e6a89f4eedc3d4c530e2ba\"  class=\"avatar avatar-96 photo\" height=\"96\" width=\"96\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                                            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With 28 points already in pocket coming into the day, the Washington Spirit aided in their playoff push&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-105324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}