2025/26 Gainbridge Super League Spring Season
DC Power FC (8-9-9, 33 PTS) 1 vs. 1 Dallas Trinity FC (9-10-7, 34 PTS)
Friday, May 1
Audi Field
Player Notes
- Just two minutes after coming on as a 77th-minute substitute, midfielder Ellie Gilbert scored the 79th-minute equalizer and her first professional goal for DC Power FC.
- Defender and team captain Sydney Cummings earned the assist on Gilbert’s equalizer off the corner kick. Cummings won four duels and made two clearances through 90 minutes.
- Returning to the starting lineup, goalkeeper Makenna Gottschalk made three saves and completed 90 minutes.
- Forward Jaydah Bedoya returned to the starting lineup and completed 58 minutes.
Match Notes
- DC Power FC is now 2-2-4 all-time against Dallas Trinity FC, 1-1-2 this season.
- DC Power FC outshot Dallas, 20-6.
DC Power FC Lineup: Makenna Gottschalk, Sydney Cummings (C), Claire Constant, Madison Murnin (Alexis Theoret 58’), Anna Bagley (Katrina Guillou 85’), Justina Gaynor, Dasia Torbert (Ellie Gilbert 77’), Emily Colton, Loza Abera, Jaydah Bedoya (Lexi Fraley 58’) and Alyssa Walker (Hannah Harney 45’).
Unused Substitutes: Morgan Aquino and Kiki Maki.
Head Coach: Omid Namazi
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Dallas Trinity FC Lineup: Tyler McCamey, Maya McCutcheon (Chioma Ubogagu 45’), Lauren Flynn, Samar Guidry, Cyera Hintzen, Camryn Lancaster Amber Brooks, Caroline Swann (Sydney Cheesman 45’), Jasmine Hamid (Allie Thornton 71’), Jenny-Julia Danielsson (Bethany Balcer 45’) and Sealy Strawn (Alexis Missimo 90’).
Unused Substitutes: Carolina Kelly and Samantha Estrada.
Head Coach: Nathan Thackeray
DC Power Football Club Post-Match Quotes
Head Coach Omid Namazi
On the match result…
“Having chances and we don’t put them away and on an individual mistake you got scored on,” Namazi said. “It’s a tough way to not take all three points and give away two. Unfortunately, it was in our hands. If we win out, we’re in the playoffs. Now, we have to hope that Dallas and Spokane drop points.”
Midfielder Ellie Gilbert
On scoring her first professional goal to equalize…
“Coming in as a sub, the goal is always to help the team however you can,” Gilbert said. “The coaches told me that on corner kicks, I’m standing in front of the keeper, so my job on corner kicks is distract the keeper, get in front of her and make sure if there’s any deflections that I get there. It was a great ball from Alexis into Syd and she got her head on it and it was a beautiful hit off her head. I saw it coming to me, put my stomach in front of it and redirected it into goal. It was definitely more the two of my teammates than it was me for that goal, but I also was very happy I could help the team out.”
Defender Claire Constant
On looking ahead to the final two matches…
“I felt like our effort was there,” Constant said. “We just have to be more clinical in the final third. What matters to us is that the effort was there. Now we know going forward we have to keep that same energy level and win the next two matches.”
