{"id":37953,"date":"2015-08-31T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37953"},"modified":"2015-08-31T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T14:12:48","slug":"breakers-fall-short-in-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=37953","title":{"rendered":"Breakers Fall Short in Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36149\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36149\" data-attachment-id=\"36149\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=36149\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,415\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mewis-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-36149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Kari Heistad\/capturedimages.biz<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A bright finish to an otherwise disappointing season simply wasn&#8217;t meant to be for the Breakers in Sunday&#8217;s season finale after dropping a 1-0 loss to the Houston Dash at BBVA Compass Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Ella Masar scored the lone goal in the 34th minute while Erin McLeod stopped five shots to preserve the shutout victory for the Dash. McLeod&#8217;s counterpart, Alyssa Naeher, finished the match with five saves of her own.<\/p>\n<p>With the loss, the Breakers finish the season at the bottom of the standings on 15 points with a 4-3-13 record. The Dash upped their total to 23 points with a 6-8-5 mark, and will conclude their regular season campaign against Chicago on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers&#8217; best chance at finding the board came in the 51st minute when Kristie Mewis whipped a free kick that McLeod misplayed before it fell to Kasey Kallman, who was looking at an open net. But Kallman&#8217;s chip was too heavy, and the shot buzzed over the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Some late heroics from Naeher kept the Breakers within striking distance after she made a one-on-one stop of Carli Lloyd in the 85th minute. But the offense failed to hold its end of the bargain before the final whistle of the 2015 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers will likely kick off their preseason in March before kicking off the 2016 NWSL season in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Breakers hopes of finishing the season on a high note fell short after dropping a 1-0 loss to the Dash on Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36149,"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":[1075],"tags":[1124,891,776,230,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Mewis-1.png?fit=600%2C415&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37953"}],"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=37953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37954,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37953\/revisions\/37954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}