{"id":567149,"date":"2026-04-06T03:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567149\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T03:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T03:35:09","slug":"washington-spirit-score-first-win-despite-rodman-goal-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/567149\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Spirit score first win despite Rodman goal drought"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gift Monday<\/a> scored just two minutes after entering the game as a late substitute and the Washington Spirit<\/a> beat Bay FC<\/a> 2-0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It was the first win of the NWSL season for the Spirit (1-1-3), who also got an own goal.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

1 Related<\/p>\n

Trinity Rodman<\/a>, still looking for her first goal this year, had a good chance in the 25th minute, but her shot to the near post was saved by Bay goalkeeper Jordan Silkowitz<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The U.S. star signed an NWSL record deal in January<\/a> to stay with the Spirit despite interest from overseas. Despite the goal drought, Rodman has started all five of the Spirit’s games this season and been a big part of the team’s attack.<\/p>\n

Silkowitz turned away another shot from Hal Hershfelt<\/a> in the 29th.<\/p>\n

There was a scary collision between the Spirit’s Lucia Di Guglielmo<\/a> and teammate Tara Rudd<\/a> before halftime. Rudd remained in the game, but Di Guglielmo left with a bloody cut to the head. She gave a thumbs up to fans as she walked off the field.<\/p>\n

The Spirit went up 1-0 on an own goal when Silkowitz came out of her goal as she was rushed by a pair of Spirit players, and her attempt to clear the ball deflected off Brooklyn Courtnall<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Monday, a Nigerian international, was subbed into the game in the 84th minute. She scored in the 86th on a rebound after Silkowitz stopped Rodman’s shot.<\/p>\n

Bay fell to 2-2-0 with the loss.<\/p>\n

Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE, Calif. — Gift Monday scored just two minutes after entering the game as a late substitute…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-567149","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567149","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=567149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}