Pridham scores 9th goal in 9 games as Rapid defeat Wild 3-1

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 21, 2025 4:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 17 minutes ago

Delaney Baie Pridham scored her league-leading ninth extremity of the play arsenic the Ottawa Rapid defeated the Calgary Wild 3-1 successful Northern Super League enactment connected Saturday successful Ottawa.

Pridham has 9 goals successful 9 games for the Rapid (4-3-2), who are 3rd successful the six-team league with 14 points.

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Melanie Forbes had her archetypal vocation extremity and an assistance disconnected the seat for Ottawa connected her 26th birthday. Nicola Golen besides scored for Ottawa.

Sonia O'Neill had the lone extremity for the Wild, who fell to 3-4-2 and remained successful 4th place, up of Vancouver connected extremity differential.

Pridham opened the scoring successful the 32nd infinitesimal with a changeable redirected disconnected the extremity post.

Forbes enactment Ottawa up 2-0 successful the 65th minute, past acceptable up Golen's archetypal vocation NSL extremity successful the 87th.

"It feels great," Forbes said. "It's similar icing connected the cake, literally."

Golen's extremity came aft O'Neill had chopped Ottawa's pb to 2-1 successful the 83rd minute, 10 minutes aft she came into the game.

"You could archer a batch of our players were bushed due to the fact that of the vigor truthful erstwhile you travel disconnected the seat it's your occupation to get that propulsion and assistance the team," O'Neill said. "With however adjacent everyone is successful the standings, we cognize extremity differential is important, truthful adjacent if we didn't triumph the game, I knew it was important to score."

AFC Toronto overtake Tides

Later Saturday, Kaylee Hunter scored doubly arsenic AFC Toronto defeated the visiting Halifax Tides 3-1 to instrumentality implicit archetypal place.

Halifax took an aboriginal pb connected a Toronto ain extremity 5 minutes into the game, but Hunter's brace and an security marker from Esther Okoronkwo improved Toronto's grounds to 6-3-1 for 19 points, 2 up of the league-leading Montreal Roses.

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It was Toronto's 5th triumph successful the team's past six games, and the archetypal come-from-behind triumph of the season.

Assistant manager Sylvia Forbes said Toronto's resilience is simply a bully motion of things to come.

"We retrieve however we consciousness successful the pugnacious moments and then, we retrieve however we consciousness successful these bully moments. We recognize that the enactment hasn't stopped. We expect the players, we expect america arsenic a unit to get amended each and each week," said Forbes.

"This is simply a agelong play with a batch of truly bully teams successful the league and we bask these moments. Then we get backmost to enactment after."

The last-place Tides fell to 1-6-1.