Ji So-Yun had one goal and two assists and Emeri Adames scored two second-half goals to help Seattle Reign FC post a 4-1 victory over the Utah Royals on Saturday afternoon at Sandy, Utah.
Maddie Dahlien also scored as Seattle (6-4-3, 21 points) stretched its unbeaten streak to three matches (2-0-1).
Bianca St-Georges scored on a rebound for last-place Utah (1-10-2, 5 points), which lost its fourth straight match and fell to 0-7-1 over its last eight games.
Ji put the Reign on the board in the sixth minute when she sent a right-footed shot into the left corner of the net. Ten minutes later, Dahlien tapped a right-footed shot toward the net that Royals defender Ana Tejada was unable to keep from going in.
Utah scored in the 31st minute when Ally Sentnor’s right-footed shot from outside the box was partially stopped by Seattle’s Claudia Dickey and hit the left goalpost. The unchecked St-George easily knocked it in.
Seattle pulled away in the second half as Ji was surrounded by three defenders in the 66th minute and slid a pass to the wide-open Adames, who drilled a left-footed shot into the net. The 19-year-oid Adames added a left-footed penalty-kick goal in the first minute of second-half stoppage time.
–Field Level Media
