Just before the schedule gets crazy over the next week or so, the Breakers and Dash meet up for a single game to get all the teams level on games played. Lydia Williams and Jami Kranich protect the nets. Find the game here. Morgan Brian of Houston intercepted a Louise Schillgard pass in the second minute. Brooke Elby of the Breakers blocked a Rachel Daly shot on a pass from Kealia Ohai on the counterattack. The Dash struck first in the third minute on an Ohai goal, assisted by Carli Lloyd, giving them a 1-0 lead. Cami Privett stole the ball and cleared it for Houston after Natasha Dowie lost control for Boston in the fourth minute. Whitney Engen of Boston broke up a pass from Ohai to Lloyd in the sixth minute. Christen Westphal of the Breakers booted a ball out of bounds for a corner kick for Houston, producing a shot. Kristie Mewis started the Boston counterattack in the seventh minute, but they didn't get a shot off. Dowie took a pass for Boston and shot wide left of the Dash keeper Williams' goal. Elby broke up a Houston attack by stealing Lloyd's pass for Brian in the ninth minute. Engen served a ball to Dowie in the tenth minute, but it went too long and the Breakers saw their attack end as Williams grabbed it. Westphal and Ghoutia Karchouni of Boston weren't able to produce a cross against Becca Moros and Denise O'Sullivan of Houston in the twelfth minute. Moros blocked and Privett cleared a shot from Mewis in the thirteenth minute. In the fourteenth minute, Moros found Daly in the box, and she beat Kranich, but Elby tracked it down and poked it away for a corner kick by Andressa. Mewis cleared the service safely away. Brian's centering pass to Ohai was cleared away by Engen in the sixteenth minute after a long spell of Houston possession. Ohai found Brian on the run in the seventeenth minute, and she made her way into the box before shooting wide right. Brittany Ratcliffe had a cross in the nineteenth minute for the Breakers, blocked by Ellie Brush of the Dash. Daly put a ball into the box, which Boston keeper Kranich had little trouble grabbing in the twenty-first minute. Lloyd ripped a shot in the twenty-third minute, saved by Kranich. A cross from Poliana found Ohai in the twenty-fifth minute, and she managed a deflected shot that Kranich covered. Karchouni and Engen managed to end a Houston possession as Lloyd tried to create a shot in the twenty-sixth minute. Privett headed out a Schillgard cross in the twenty-seventh minute. Mewis, Dowie, Westphal, and Schillgard all combined for a chance in the twenty-eighth minute, but Williams caught the curling ball for the save. The Breakers produced another chance as Mewis shot wide left after taking a pass from Elby, who has switched sides with the early substitution of Kylie Strom in for Westphal. Mewis nearly blocked a Williams clearance after Privett sent the ball a bit lazily back to the Houston keeper in the thirty-second minute. In the thirty-third minute, the Dash went up 2-0 as Daly flicked a ball up to Ohai, who ran from the midfield line and curled a ball into the net for her second goal of the game. Kassey Kallman was unable to catch up defensively. The Breakers saw Dowie head a ball wide right in the thirty-fourth minute. Dowie and Angela Salem both had shots blocked. In the thirty-sixth minute, Salem tried to go through most of the Houston defense before O'Sullivan stopped her progress cleanly for Houston. Privett kept the ball away from Dowie in the thirty-ninth minute, starting a Dash counterattack. Andressa cleared a Schillgard pass to Dowie in the fortieth minute as the Breakers build a bit more possession. Daly took a pass from Poliana in the forty-second minute, then dropping back to Lloyd, whose heavy touch forced Engen to make a play, and she got a bit of a bump but kept the ball away from Ohai. Kallman blocked a Daly cross after Andressa found the Houston forward, and Daly had danced around Kranich in the forty-fourth minute to create the chance. Ohai managed a cross after a Moros pass in stoppage time, and Lloyd sent it just wide right. The game went into halftime at 2-0 for the Dash. Impressing for Houston are the LB Moros, DM Brian, LW Lloyd, ACM O'Sullivan, RW Andressa, LF Ohai, and RF Daly, while the Breakers have seen their best play from CB Engen, DM Karchouni, RW Mewis, and RF Schillgard. In the forty-sixth minute, Ohai found Daly, who poked the ball just wide left on Houston's first chance of the second half. Brush headed a Schillgard cross in the forty-seventh minute. Mewis and Ratcliffe combined for another chance, shooting on goal, but Williams saved it and Brian cleared it for the Dash. Privett blocked Ratcliffe's forty-ninth minute cross to Mewis, denying another Breakers chance. On the counterattack, Lloyd had a shot blocked by Boston's defense. Ohai set up Andressa in the fiftieth minute for a shot, which went wide right. Privett intercepted Mewis' pass for Ratcliffe in the fifty-second minute. Ohai had a shot bounce off the post in the fifty-second minute, and then Strom blocked O'Sullivan's shot, and Ohai's was blocked by Engen before the Dash earned a corner kick. Andressa's set piece curled over the throng of players and out for a goal kick by Kranich. Houston had a series of passes in the fifty-fourth minute ending with a flubbed shot from Moros on a Lloyd pass. Strom won a corner kick for the Breakers off of Brian, and Karchouni's fifty-sixth minute service went long. Lloyd's pass for O'Sullivan in the fifty-eighth minute was just a bit behind as the game calms down a bit. Engen cleared an Ohai cross in the fifty-ninth minute. Karchouni found Dowie in the sixtieth minute, but Williams was up to the task in saving Dowie's shot. Ohai and Lloyd connected again, but the shot was saved by Kranich, after another strong Houston passing sequence. In the sixty-second minute, Lloyd buried a shot from way out, after receiving the pass from Andressa. The shot went over Kranich, making it 3-0 Houston. Lloyd took another shot in the sixty-sixth minute, firing low and wide left this time. In the sixty-eighth minute, Andressa sent a shot over the bar. Ohai and Brian each had efforts deflected in the sixty-ninth minute, by Kallman and Engen. Andressa and O'Sullivan created a chance, but Daly got caught offside, so the shot and save by Kranich were negated by the whistle. Kallman stole a pass from O'Sullivan to Daly in the seventy-fourth minute, even as it seems the Dash are just kicking the ball around now without much challenge from the Breakers. Daly got beat by Kranich on a high-bouncing ball in the box. Daly's cross was a bit too fast for Houston sub Janine Beckie to get on in the seventy-seventh minute. Engen cleared a cross from Ohai to Lloyd in the seventy-eighth minute. Dowie won a corner kick for the Breakers in the eightieth minute. Mewis served this in, but Poliana blocked it out. The Breakers earned a corner kick in the eighty-third minute after Poliana let Strom get behind her. Mewis took this set piece, but it was cleared by Houston. Salem cleared a cross from Chioma Ubogagu. Stephanie Verdoia of Boston blocked a shot by Amber Brooks in the eighty-fifth minute. Mewis managed a long shot that Williams saved off her leg. Brush poked a ball away from Dowie after a forward pass from the Breakers in the eighty-sixth minute. The game slowed down in the later minutes. Elby did well in the eighty-ninth minute to block Lloyd's cross and Ubogagu's settling attempt. Dowie fired a shot wide left in the ninetieth minute. Dowie got Boston on the board with a goal in stoppage time after a pass from Kyah Simon, cutting the score to 3-1. Dowie nearly had another, but she was offside, and Williams handled it anyway. Ratcliffe nearly had one for the Breakers, but Williams was there. The game ended at 3-1, with Ohai the Outsider Sports Woman of the Match. Dowie made a good impression in the second half for the Breakers.
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