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What We'll Remember | Form improves as Thorns close regular season with draw

PORTLAND, Ore. - Choose your own adventure - how you want to look at the Portland Thorns' regular-season finale against the visiting Washington Spirit:

You can choose to look at the team's 83rd-minute chance as emblematic of the entire evening: a ball fired through the six-yard box by Midge Purce that wasn't met by a far-post run. There was also a close-range chance three minutes later, put over the bar by Purce, as well as the breakaway a minute after that which, having failed, left the crowd decrying the lead official's non-call.