{"id":42555,"date":"2016-04-17T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T18:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42555"},"modified":"2016-04-17T15:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T19:11:12","slug":"breakers-edged-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=42555","title":{"rendered":"Breakers Edged in Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"42556\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=42556\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.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=\"Breakers=2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.png?fit=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.png?fit=600%2C415&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.png?resize=600%2C415\" alt=\"Breakers=2\" width=\"600\" height=\"415\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.png?resize=300%2C208&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Offseason acquisition Libby Stout made six saves to keep it close, but it wasn&#8217;t enough as the Boston Breakers fell 1-0 in their season-opening contest against the Washington Spirit on Saturday at Maryland SoccerPlex in Boyd, Md.<\/p>\n<p>Stout, who took over the goalkeeping reigns after shot-stopper Alyssa Naeher was traded to Chicago during the winter, denied Cali Farquharson in the 85th minute to give the guests hope until the end. But former Breaker Joanna Lohman&#8217;s third-minute bicycle kick strike stood to seal the win for the Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Louise Schillgard nearly equalized in the 23rd minute on an inswinging corner that nearly snuck by Washington goalkeeper Stephanie Labbe before she made a last-ditch effort to deny it.<\/p>\n<p>The Breakers will return to action on Sunday, Apr. 24 for their home opener against Seattle Reign FC at Jordan Field (formerly Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium). Kickoff is 6:30pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libby Stout made six saves in her NWSL debut, but the Breakers fell 1-0 to the Spirit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42556,"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":[1124,891,892,358],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Breakers2.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\/42555"}],"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=42555"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42562,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42555\/revisions\/42562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}