{"id":92009,"date":"2025-10-09T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/?p=92009"},"modified":"2025-10-09T16:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T20:35:27","slug":"olivia-moultrie-bags-brace-as-thorns-honor-christine-sinclair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/2025\/10\/09\/olivia-moultrie-bags-brace-as-thorns-honor-christine-sinclair\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Moultrie bags brace as Thorns honor Christine Sinclair<div class=\"eqs-premium-tag\"><\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>PORTLAND \u2014 On a clear, cool night in Rose City, a legend&#8217;s legacy was forever immortalized as <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/8d7667f4\/Christine-Sinclair?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-09_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Christine Sinclair<\/a> was inducted into the Portland Thorns Hall of Fame and had her No. 12 jersey retired before the club took on Bay FC. Similar to her <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/2024\/11\/02\/christine-sinclair-portland-sendoff-nwsl-goal-perfect\/\">final regular-season appearance at Providence Park<\/a>, the Thorns perfectly honored the club legend with their on-field performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Though the visiting Bay FC scored first in the 36th minute through <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/e9082a8d\/Taylor-Huff?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-09_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Huff<\/a>, Portland turned things around in the second half. Passing the torch to the next generation of Thorns stars, midfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/3ee50ac6\/Olivia-Moultrie?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=equalizersoccer.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-10-09_fb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Olivia Moultrie<\/a> scored the first brace of her career and became the youngest player in Thorns history to score twice in a single match to win the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to get the result for Sinc on this special night,\u201d Thorns head coach Rob Gale said. \u201cBeing down 1-0 at home on a big occasion, it\u2019s about character and about quality from that moment onward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"equalizer-paywall\">\n<div class=\"paywall-block\">\n<div class=\"paywall-heading\">\n      Access the best women&#8217;s soccer coverage all year long\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-body\">\n     Start your FREE, 7-day trial of The Equalizer Extra for industry-leading reporting and insight on the USWNT, NWSL and beyond.\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-button\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/eqs\/subscribe\">Subscribe<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<div class=\"login-note\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\">Existing Users Sign In Here<\/a>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall-fade-block\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PORTLAND \u2014 On a clear, cool night in Rose City, a legend&#8217;s legacy was forever immortalized as Christine Sinclair was inducted into the Portland Thorns Hall of Fame and had her No. 12 jersey retired before the club took on Bay FC. Similar to her final regular-season appearance at Providence Park, the Thorns perfectly honored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3389,"featured_media":92022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[142,82,86],"tags":[120,34,768,2027,759,2010],"class_list":["post-92009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-canada","category-nwsl-national-womens-soccer-league","category-portland-thorns-fc","tag-christine-sinclair","tag-featured","tag-nwsl","tag-olivia-moultrie","tag-portland-thorns","tag-stream"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92009"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92054,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92009\/revisions\/92054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/equalizersoccer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}