{"id":8456,"date":"2023-06-28T21:38:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T04:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/?p=8456"},"modified":"2023-06-28T21:38:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T04:38:28","slug":"thorns-fall-to-ol-reign-in-challenge-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/2023\/06\/28\/thorns-fall-to-ol-reign-in-challenge-cup-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Thorns fall to OL Reign in Challenge Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Thorns were missing many key players on the night (as were the OL Reign), but the Thorns never found their form and rarely threatened in a 1-0 loss to the Reign.&nbsp; <strong>Elyse Bennett<\/strong> had the lone goal of the match.<\/p>\n<p>The first half didn&#8217;t have much action for either team, but a few minutes before halftime, the OL Reign thought they had taken the lead, but the goal was ruled offside.<\/p>\n<p>In the 55th minute, the Reign finally broke the scoreless drought when <strong>Alyssa Malonson<\/strong> sent a cross in to <strong>Elyse Bennett<\/strong>, who had slipped in behind the Thorns defense, and she headed home from only a few yards out, and the Reign led by a 1-0 score.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns had a few good chances, including a nice header chance just into stoppage time, but never found the net, and would fall by a 1-0 score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Thorns were missing many key players on the night (as were the OL Reign), but the Thorns never found their form and rarely threatened in a 1-0 loss to the Reign.&nbsp; Elyse Bennett had the lone goal of the match. The first half didn&#8217;t have much action for either team, but a few minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-thorns","category-thorns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/flag1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8457,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8456\/revisions\/8457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pdxcite.net\/soccercityusa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}