{"id":35172,"date":"2025-09-16T22:08:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/reign-fc-defeats-racing-louisville-in-resumed-game-tribute-to-demelo\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T22:08:27","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T02:08:27","slug":"reign-fc-defeats-racing-louisville-in-resumed-game-tribute-to-demelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/reign-fc-defeats-racing-louisville-in-resumed-game-tribute-to-demelo\/","title":{"rendered":"Reign FC defeats Racing Louisville in resumed game; Tribute to DeMelo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jess Fishlock gives Seattle Reign the victory after suspension due to medical emergency<\/h2>\n\nIn a match marked by suspension and a medical emergency, Jess Fishlock scored in the 90th minute to give Seattle Reign a 1-0 victory over Racing Louisville on Tuesday night.\n\nThe match, which resumed after being suspended on Sunday due to a medical incident, saw Fishlock, coming on as a substitute, beat two defenders to score her fifth goal of the season.\n\nThe original incident involved Louisville midfielder Savannah DeMelo, who collapsed near the end of the first half and had to be taken away by ambulance.\n\nThe remainder of the game was postponed and played on Tuesday without a crowd at Seattle&#8217;s Lumen Field.\n\nBoth teams wore purple armbands in honor of DeMelo.\n\nThe victory broke a five-game winless streak for the Reign, who hadn&#8217;t won since August 1 against Angel City.\n\nBefore this match, both teams were above the playoff line in the NWSL standings, but were coming off of losses.\n\nLouisville (7-8-5) lost 2-1 at home to the Portland Thorns, ending a four-match unbeaten streak.\n\nSeattle (8-6-6) was coming off a 2-0 road loss to the Washington Spirit.\n\nDeMelo remained hospitalized in Seattle, accompanied by her family. She was conscious and was undergoing tests to determine the cause of her collapse.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I am very grateful to all our medical staff for their quick response. They have been with me every step of the way,&#8221; she said in a statement released by the team on Monday.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Savannah DeMelo<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nDeMelo, 27, abandoned a match in March due to dizziness and chest tightness, and was stretchered off the field. In May, she revealed that she is dealing with Graves&#8217; disease and hyperthyroidism.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jess Fishlock gives Seattle Reign the victory after suspension due to medical emergency In a match marked by suspension and a medical emergency, Jess Fishlock scored in the 90th minute to give Seattle Reign a 1-0 victory over Racing Louisville on Tuesday night. The match, which resumed after being suspended on Sunday due to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[8838,798,2937,8839],"class_list":{"0":"post-35172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-jess-fishlock","9":"tag-nwsl","10":"tag-savannah-demelo","11":"tag-seattle-reign"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}