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Roundup: San Diego Wave win in Louisville; SDFC falls in Charlotte
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The San Diego Wave took on Racing Louisville on Saturday, and the only team in a hurry was the visiting one.
The Wave’s Melanie Barcenas and Delphine Cascarino scored in a 10-minute span in the second half and Cascarino added her second goal 17 minutes later, as the Wave beat Racing Louisville 4-1. The offensive explosion was big for the Wave, who had scored just five goals in their previous four matches before Saturday.
Kenza Dali also scored a first-half goal for the Wave, who improved to 2-2-1 with the win. Racing Louisville fell to 1-2-2.
The match was tied 1-1 in the 50th minute when Barcenas — the 17-year-old San Diego native and one of the National Women’s Soccer League’s young stars — gave the Wave a 2-1 lead with her first goal of the season. Ten minutes later, Cascarino logged the first of her two goals when her shot got through the legs of Louisville’s goalkeeper. Cascarino scored her second goal in the 77th minute, taking a pass from Kimmi Ascanio and depositing it into the back of the goal.
The Wave will play at the Chicago Stars next weekend before returning home to face Bay FC on May 4.
San Diego FC falls in Charlotte
Liel Abada scored early on Pep Biel’s league-leading sixth assist and host Charlotte FC rolled to a 3-0 victory over expansion side San Diego FC on Saturday night.
Kristijan Kahlina, the reigning goalkeeper of the year, finished with two saves on the way to his fourth clean sheet this season for Charlotte (6-2-1). Charlotte is the last remaining club with a perfect home record after its fifth straight victory.
Charlotte jumped in front in the 11th minute when Abada used Biel’s assist to score for the second time. It was Abada’s ninth career goal in 32 appearances with Charlotte. Biel has five goals and nine assists in 18 career appearances with the club. Charlotte is 6-0-1 when Biel contributes to a goal this season.
San Diego (4-3-2) was forced to play a man down from the 43rd minute on after defender Andrés Reyes picked up two yellow cards. The second yellow resulted in a penalty-kick goal by Patrick Agyemang for a 2-0 lead at the half. It was the first goal this season for Agyemang after coming off a career-high 10 netters last year.
Ashley Westwood set up Andrew Privett’s first career goal — in his 50th appearance — for a 3-0 lead in the 57th minute. The assist was Westwood’s first this season and his seventh in 71 career appearances with Charlotte.
CJ dos Santos totaled seven saves for San Diego. Dos Santos had two saves and Kahlina one in the first half.
San Diego won its first two road matches but has since lost three in a row away from home.
Charlotte will host the New England Revolution on Saturday. San Diego returns home to play Real Salt Lake on Saturday.
Includes information from The Associated Press.
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