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It is the year of the streak in the National Women’s Soccer League. On the individual front, Sam Staab started her 100th game in a row over the weekend and Kaleigh Kurtz is less than 45 minutes from breaking the consecutive minutes played streak.
And then there are the team streaks.
The Orlando Pride won in Seattle for the first time over the weekend and in doing so matched the Reign’s league-record win streak with their seventh straight. That mark may not last for long though. Two nights earlier the Thorns waited out a two-and-a-half hour weather delay before beating the Dash for their sixth straight. They can match that same league record this Friday when they travel to..wait for it…Orlando.
“I think that’s now seven wins on the run,” Pride coach Seb Hines said, playing down the record. “It’s really nice. It’s pleasing to see that everything is starting to come together but we have a lot of room to continue to improve.”
Hines, the only Pride coach with…
