The Boston Breakers claimed their franchise-best third straight victory to start the season in Wednesday’s 2-1 win over the New York Fury at Hofstra University in Long Island, N.Y.<\/p>\n
Tameka Butt (10′) and Katie Schoepfer (19′) each scored first half tallies while Merritt Mathias (66′) scored the lone Fury goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way we came out and played, I was really happy with how we started,\u201d Breakers Head Coach\u00a0Lisa Cole\u00a0said in a post-game release. \u201cI\u2019m excited how we rose to the challenge. I\u2019m happy to get the win; it\u2019s always good to get a road win against a good team.\u201d<\/p>\n
In keeping with the trend of early strikes, the Breakers took the lead in the 10th minute when Butt put away a feed from Courtney Jones. Schoepfer doubled the lead in the 19th minute with her team-leading third goal of the season, finishing a play set up by Kyah Simon.<\/p>\n
Although the Fury came into the game even with the Breakers in the standings, the hosts weren\u2019t able to match their guests through the first 45.<\/p>\n
But New York approached the second half with a renewed focus on finding the back of the net. In the 66th minute, Mathias scored her league-leading fourth goal of the season to pull New York within one.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey changed their system and kind of went after us in the second half,\u201d Cole said. \u201cWe knew they were going for the win, so we settled in and changed our system to even things out.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Mathias’ strike was the only reply the Fury would file, as the Breakers survived to seal their second road victory of the season.<\/p>\n
The Breakers take on the Western New York Flash on Saturday night at Dilboy Stadium in Somerville, Mass.<\/p>\n
Julian Cardillo can be reached at\u00a0juliancardillo@snenet.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Breakers earned their third-straight victory by beating the New York Fury 2-1 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[23,101],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12250,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12246\/revisions\/12250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}