{"id":2101427,"date":"2025-10-19T08:15:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2101427"},"modified":"2025-10-19T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T08:15:39","slug":"seattle-reign-clinch-playoff-spot-with-win-over-utah-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/seattle-reign-clinch-playoff-spot-with-win-over-utah-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Reign clinch playoff spot with win over Utah Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\"><span class=\"timestamp \">Oct 18, 2025, 01:04 AM ET<\/span><\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"9e97afc4-9894-860e-25be-7bf192748a0f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/303707\/sofia-huerta\">Sofia Huerta<\/a> converted a penalty in the 67th minute and the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/club\/_\/id\/15363\/seattle-reign-fc\">Seattle Reign<\/a> clinched a spot in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/league\/_\/name\/usa.nwsl\">National Women&#8217;s Soccer League<\/a> playoffs with a 2-1 victory over the visiting <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"814eaeee-f824-8d92-b4ef-01a4e1683978\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=19141\">Utah Royals<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Reign (10-7-8) moved into third place in the standings with the victory, which extended the team&#8217;s unbeaten streak at Seattle&#8217;s Lumen Field to seven games.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"98057590-d97b-319a-b666-8259c6dbf767\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/386620\/ainsley-mccammon\">Ainsley McCammon<\/a> scored on a header off a cross from <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"894ca616-bf36-36f5-87ef-5b53fa0426cb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/399727\/maddie-dahlien\">Maddie Dahlien<\/a> in first-half stoppage time to put Seattle up 1-0. It was the 18-year-old&#8217;s first goal.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/46627159\/usa-trinity-rodman-injury-mcl-sprain-washington-spirit\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/46609199\/nwsl-teenager-ranking-u19-analysis-gisele-thompson-claire-hutton-jordyn-bugg\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2025\/1014\/251016_soc_u19-ranking_1x1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The Royals (5-13-7) tied it in the 61st minute on <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"fb8d8597-0373-4825-27e0-6280a7cfa27f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/227520\/paige-monaghan\">Paige Monaghan<\/a>&#8216;s left-footed goal from the top of the box that sailed over Reign goalkeeper <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"ddd114c3-40ad-3c77-805e-5d84dbee6afc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/303707\/claudia-dickey\">Claudia Dickey<\/a>&#8216;s outstretched arms and into the upper corner.<\/p>\n<p>Minutes later, Utah&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"b8ba2cb2-5d5e-377f-9af1-e15f0b9480f7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/303707\/bianca-st-georges\">Bianca St-Georges<\/a> was called for a foul in the box and Huerta converted the penalty to give the Reign back the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Reign captain <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"4b63d2f9-e39c-73db-9363-9ddf1c0e492e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/234759\/lauren-barnes\">Lauren Barnes<\/a>, who announced her plans to retire at the end of the season, started. Last week she became the first player to reach 250 regular-season appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Barnes has spent her entire career with the Reign, joining the team in the league&#8217;s first year in 2013. She has now played in 251 of the club&#8217;s 277 games.<\/p>\n<p>Matsukubo scores a hat trick <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"a4b9e3fd-87be-32dd-a573-536f9a13e845\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/369002\/manaka-matsukubo\">Manaka Matsukubo<\/a> had three goals and the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"6c755f7c-e52a-9693-7b4c-67a86440fe8f\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=15366\">North Carolina Courage<\/a> stayed alive for a playoff spot with a 4-1 victory on the road against <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ae7c32e-031a-3a69-bba5-c69b721d5529\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/team?id=22187\">Bay FC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Matsukubo scored her first goal in the third minute that Bay goalkeeper <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"c61e1510-9194-3baf-abea-1779ace408e9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/277796\/jordan-silkowitz\">Jordan Silkowitz<\/a> tried to stop but the ball rolled into the goal. She added a second in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"fcbe373a-47a5-3fd2-ae58-f5b2dc0d9795\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/279445\/penelope-hocking\">Penelope Hocking<\/a> pulled a goal back for Bay in first-half stoppage time at San Jose&#8217;s PayPal Park.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"428f60c1-7bd4-3c9b-b2e5-7ef3f225dd92\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/player\/_\/id\/351354\/shinomi-koyama\">Shinomi Koyama<\/a> made it 3-1 for the Courage (8-8-9) in the 74th before Matsukubo&#8217;s final goal in the 80th.<\/p>\n<p>North Carolina was sitting just outside the playoff line in the league standings, a point below Racing Louisville in the eighth and final spot with one game to go in the regular season. The victory snapped a three-game winless streak for the Courage.<\/p>\n<p>Bay (4-13-8) was already eliminated from the playoffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct 18, 2025, 01:04 AM ET Sofia Huerta converted a penalty in the 67th minute and the Seattle Reign clinched a spot in the National Women&#8217;s Soccer League playoffs with a 2-1 victory over the visiting Utah Royals on Friday night. The Reign (10-7-8) moved into third place in the standings with the victory, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2101428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2101427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Seattle-Reign-clinch-playoff-spot-with-win-over-Utah-Royals.jpgw130h130scalecroplocationcenter.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2101427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2101429,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2101427\/revisions\/2101429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2101428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2101427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2101427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2101427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}