Boston Breakers fall 1-0 to North Carolina Courage

Allysha Chapman and Lynn Williams fight for the ballStarting XI: Abby Smith, Julie King, Megan Oyster, Christen Westphal, Allysha Chapman, Angela Salem, Rose Lavelle, Rosie White, Margaret Purce, Adriana Leon, Natasha Dowie

It was a decent start for Boston against the North Carolina Courage. These two teams have met many times before when the Courage were still playing under the banner of the Western New York Flash and almost every time, the Flash served the Breakers a demoralizing loss. But if this is the same Flash roster under a new name, this is a very different Breakers roster in the familiar blue and white.

Yes, Boston spent most of the first half trapped in their own end of the field.…