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Tanya Boychuk netted the game-winning goal in the 65th minute to lift Montreal Roses FC to a 2-1 victory over Ottawa Rapid FC on Saturday in Northern Super League action at TD Place in Ottawa.
Boychuk took a centring pass from Jodi Smith and tapped it past Ottawa goalkeeper Mollie Eriksson to restore Montreal’s lead.
WATCH | Roses expand lead in NSL standings with a victory over Rapid:
Tanya Boychuk’s go-ahead goal proved to be the winner for Montreal Roses as they defeated Ottawa Rapid 2-1 Saturday in NSL action.
Latifah Abdu opened the scoring in the 24th minute for the Roses (4-2-2). She took a pass just inside the box from Charlotte Bilbault, deked an approaching defender and fired it into the bottom left corner of the net.
Delaney Baie Pridham scored the equalizer for the Rapid (3-2-2) in the 58th minute. Choo Hyo-joo sent in a pretty free kick toward the far post that found Pridham in stride for a header.
Early red card
Ottawa played much of the match short a player with Olivia Scott being shown a red card in the 27th minute.
Montreal had 57 per cent possession and 14 total shots (two on target) to Ottawa’s six (three on target).
AFC Toronto defeat Calgary Wild
In Calgary, Nikayla Small scored two goals eight minutes apart in the first half and led the visiting AFC Toronto (5-3-1) to a 2-1 victory over the host Wild (3-3-2).
WATCH | Nikayla Small’s brace leads AFC Toronto to win over Calgary Wild:
Nikayla Small scores twice in the first half and AFC Toronto holds on for a 2-1 victory over Calgary Wild FC.
Danielle Steer scored in the 53rd minute to get Calgary back in the match, but the hosts could not net the equalizer.
Toronto outshot the hosts 17-7 (7-2 on-target) and took more corners (5-3). Calgary received two of the three yellow cards in the match.
Calgary had 60 per cent possession.