Overview
- Manaka Matsukubo scored in the 3rd, 8th and 80th minutes for her first NWSL hat trick, with Shinomi Koyama also on the scoresheet for North Carolina.
- The win snapped the Courage’s three-game winless run and preserved their postseason chance with one regular-season match remaining.
- Bay FC’s drought reached 14 straight without a victory over roughly 132 days in a home finale that matched their most lopsided home defeat.
- Penelope Hocking headed in Bay’s lone goal in first-half stoppage time in her return from a foot injury.
- Bay twice struck the woodwork in the second half, Jordan Silkowitz saved a penalty, and Casey Murphy finished with five saves for the Courage.