A 90th minute\u00a0Ashley Spivey\u00a0equalizer ended the Mutiny’s playoff hopes\u00a0in the wake of\u00a0Wednesday’s 3-3 draw between the East Longmeadow-based 11 and the Chesapeake Charge.<\/p>\n
The Mutiny came into the midweek match\u00a0at Millersville, Md.\u00a0needing maximum points to keep their playoff hopes alive. And with Saturday’s upset win over the Breakers fresh in their minds, they had every reason to believe they could do it.<\/p>\n
It started off well enough for the Mutiny, with Kate\u00a0Howarth scoring in just the fifth minute. Howarth doubled her tally in the 35th<\/sup> minute, heading in a cross from Kacey Richards to cushion the lead.<\/p>\n But in the 40th<\/sup> minute, the Charge responded when Cheyenne Skidmore scored the first goal of the game for the hosts. The Charge carried the momentum of Skidmore’s strike into the second half, where\u00a0Skidmore set up\u00a0Nicole Clark\u00a0for the equalizer just three minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n With the game knotted at two in the 64th minute, the Mutiny took advantage of a Chesapeake miscue in the midfield, where Richards\u00a0sprung Tiffany Weimer, who put the ball into the back of the net to restore the Mutiny lead.<\/p>\n But in the 90th minute, the Charge struck one last time. Skidmore sent a\u00a0free kick \u00a0into the area that Spivey pounced on to level it and shut the door on New England’s playoff ambitions.<\/p>\n The Mutiny return to action on Jul. 19 at 7pm when they face the Chicago Red Stars at East Longmeadow High School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mutiny saw their playoff hopes end in Wednesday’s 3-3 draw to the Charge.<\/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":[97,101],"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\/13645"}],"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=13645"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13652,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645\/revisions\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}