Jaedyn Shaw and Alex Morgan scored to give the San Diego Wave a 2-0 win against Racing Louisville, earning the NWSL Shield for best record and the top seed for the playoffs. Megan Rapinoe scored two goals in three minutes at the start of the second half as OL Reign won 3-0 at the Chicago Red Stars and finished fourth.
Jaedyn Shaw and Alex Morgan scored to give the San Diego Wave a 2-0 win against Racing Louisville on Sunday, earning the NWSL Shield for best record and the top seed for the playoffs.
The playoffs open Friday with Gotham at North Carolina, and the winner plays at the Portland Thorns on Nov. 5. Angel City is at the Reign in the quarterfinals on Friday, and the winner plays at San Diego on Nov. 5. The final is at San Diego on Nov. 11. Portland entered the weekend in first place but lost 5-1 at Angel City and finished second. Hina Sugita got Portland’s goal in the 79th minute.
Angel City moved up from eighth place to fifth in front of a sellout crowd of 22,000 at BMO Stadium in Los Angeles, earning a playoff spot in its second season. M.A. Vignola scored in the 36th and Scarlett Camberos in the 38th, After Savannah McCaskill’s 47th-minute goal, Sydney Leroux scored on a bicycle kick in the 51st and Jun Endo added a goal in the 80th.
Gotham dropped from fourth place to sixth, wasting a two-goal lead in a 2-2 draw at home against the already eliminated Kansas City Current. Gotham built its lead on goals by Midge Purce in the sixth minute and Yazmeen Ryan in the 15th at Red Bull Arena, then conceded to Alexa Spaanstra in the 26th minute, and gave up Jenna Nighswonger’s own in the 36th.
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