{"id":2438775,"date":"2026-05-31T03:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2438775"},"modified":"2026-05-31T03:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T03:07:53","slug":"wilson-converts-penalty-to-pull-thorns-into-a-2-2-draw-with-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wilson-converts-penalty-to-pull-thorns-into-a-2-2-draw-with-the-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson converts penalty to pull Thorns into a 2-2 draw with the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sophia Wilson scored on a penalty kick in stoppage time to give the Portland Thorns a 2-2 draw with the Utah Royals on Saturday in a matchup of the league\u2019s top teams. <\/p>\n<p>In other National Women\u2019s Soccer League matches, the Washington Spirit beat the Seattle Reign 2-1; and the Kansas City Current topped the Boston Legacy 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The Thorns (7-3-3) took a 1-0 lead in the 21st minute on a goal by Olivia Moultrie.<\/p>\n<p>The first-place Royals (7-2-3), unbeaten in their last 10, leveled the match on Kiana Palacios\u2019 header in the 44th minute. It was the first goal that Portland had conceded at Providence Park this season and ended a 637-minute home shutout streak.<\/p>\n<p>Mina Tanaka found Clo\u00e9 Lacasse in the 50th minute to give Utah a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>Alexa Spaanstra fouled Jayden Perry in the box for the penalty kick that Wilson converted for her fifth goal of the season. <\/p>\n<p>Second-place Portland is unbeaten at home over 10 regular-season matches stretching to last season.<\/p>\n<h2>Hershfelt gets go-ahead goal for the Spirit<\/h2>\n<p>Hal Hershfelt scored her first goal of the season in the 81st minute to give the Spirit (6-2-3) the win over the Reign at Audi Field. <\/p>\n<p>Spirit midfielder Leicy Santos opened the scoring in the 18th minute off a free kick from outside the box.<\/p>\n<p>The Reign (4-5-2) equalized in the 44th minute on an own goal from defender Lucia Di Guglielmo. <\/p>\n<p>Hershfelt\u2019s winner deflected off defender Jordyn Bugg.<\/p>\n<h2>Current remain unbeaten at home<\/h2>\n<p>Reigning league MVP Temwa Chawinga scored her seventh goal of the season in the 69th minute to lead the Current (7-5-0) over the visiting Legacy. <\/p>\n<p>Goalkeeper Lorena made three saves for her third clean sheet of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Current head into the summer break with an unbeaten home record (6-0-0) and now have a 23-match unbeaten streak at home (20-0-3). <\/p>\n<p>The Legacy (2-7-3) are winless in their last three.<\/p>\n<p>Current defender Kayla Sharples went down in the second minute with an injury and left the field as a concussion substitute seven minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP World Cup: <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/fifa-world-cup<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\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 apnews.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophia Wilson scored on a penalty kick in stoppage time to give the Portland Thorns a 2-2 draw with the Utah Royals on Saturday in a matchup of the league\u2019s top teams. 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