{"id":26434,"date":"2014-06-23T23:57:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T03:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=26434"},"modified":"2014-06-24T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T04:00:57","slug":"naehers-pk-save-salvages-draw-for-breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=26434","title":{"rendered":"Naeher’s PK Save Salvages Draw for Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alyssa Naeher stopped a late penalty to preserve a 1-1 draw between the Boston Breakers and Sky Blue FC on Sunday at Yurcak Field in Piscataway, N.J.<\/p>\n

Sky Blue was awarded a penalty in the 86th minute after a handball was called on a Breakers’ defender inside the box. Katy Freels stepped up to spot, but saw her shot stopped by Naeher, who collected eight saves on the day.<\/p>\n

Former Breakers forward Kelly O’Hara opened the account inside of two minutes while Jazmine Reeves equalized in the 32nd minute. <\/p>\n

The draw is Boston’s first of the season, and it put their mark at 3-9-1. The stalemate put Sky Blue’s record at 2-6-6.<\/p>\n

Boston entered the match intent on putting their 2-0 loss to Seattle behind them, while Sky Blue were coming off a 2-2 draw to Chicago. <\/p>\n

Their confidence still brimming from the result they grabbed in Chicago, the hosts went up early. Caitlin Foord blocked a Julie King clearance and quickly gained possession before sliding it inside for O’Hara, who coolly finished in the second minute of action.<\/p>\n

With their backs against the wall early, the Breakers set out to level it, and did so just after the half hour mark. Kristie Mewis sent a long ball forward for Reeves, who latched onto it and scored to send the match to halftime dead even.<\/p>\n

Although the match remained scoreless going into the waning stages, the hosts were afforded a golden opportunity to grab the go-ahead in the 86th minute. A Sky Blue free kick near the edge of the box appeared to hit a Breakers’ defender on the arm, and referee Greg Dopka pointed to the spot. <\/p>\n

Freels went right, where it met Naeher’s mitts before spilling outside the post to deny the hosts of maximum points.<\/p>\n

Boston returns to action on Friday at Sahlen’s Stadium where they’ll face the Western New York Flash at 7:30pm. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alyssa Naeher’s eight saves – including a late penalty stop – helped secure a 1-1 draw for the Breakers vs. Sky Blue on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26436,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/ANaeher.png?fit=492%2C259&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26439,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26434\/revisions\/26439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}