{"id":3244,"date":"2026-08-27T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T10:19:40","slug":"angel-city-is-shut-out-as-north-carolinas-sanchez-sets-team-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"Angel City is shut out as North Carolina’s Sanchez sets team record"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ashley Sanchez scored twice to break the single-season goals record for the North Carolina Courage in a 2-0 victory<\/a> over Angel City<\/a> on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

The former All-American at UCLA leads the National Women\u2019s Soccer League in scoring this season with 15 goals.<\/p>\n

Sanchez scored her 14th goal in the 41st minute, tying Lynn Biyendolo\u2019s record for the North Carolina set in 2019. Evelyn Ijeh\u2019s backheel flick found a charging Sanchez, who blasted it into the far corner.<\/p>\n

Sanchez added her record-breaker in the 78th, running down a long ball sent forward by Courage goalkeeper Kailen Sheridan and out-running three Angel City defenders before burying her shot. Sheridan, who got the assist, ran up the field after the goal to celebrate with Sanchez.<\/p>\n

Sanchez also had a pair of goals in the Courage\u2019s 2-1 victory over the Boston Legacy on Saturday. North Carolina has won (11-3-7) has won five of its last six games.<\/p>\n

The loss ended a four-game streak of draws for Angel City (7-6-7<\/a>). Angel City played to a scoreless tie at home with Gotham on Sunday.<\/p>\n

North Carolina\u2019s Maycee Bell made her 50th NWSL regular-season appearance but she was injured early in the second half and had to be stretchered off with an apparent arm injury.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ashley Sanchez scored twice to break the single-season goals record for the North Carolina Courage in a 2-0 victory over Angel City on Wednesday night. The former All-American at UCLA leads the National Women\u2019s Soccer League in scoring this season with 15 goals. Sanchez scored her 14th goal in the 41st minute, tying Lynn Biyendolo\u2019s…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1712,1817,1118,3244,535,5255,2206,2040,437],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-angel","tag-carolinas","tag-city","tag-north","tag-record","tag-sanchez","tag-sets","tag-shut","tag-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}