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(June 14, 2026) — Sabrina Bryan scored her third goal in as many matches, and it turned out to be the only needed for the Pittsburgh Riveters to win their fifth straight match, defeating Erie Sports Center 1-0 at Saxon Stadium in Erie, Pa.

It was also the fifth straight shutout for the Riveters (6-0-1), who did not allow Erie (1-5-0) to put a shot on target against goalkeeper Lexi Grundler, who kept a fourth clean sheet in a row. The match began late after a 75-minute delay due to lightning in the Erie area. 

The win brings the Riveters closer to clinching the Great Forest Division title for a second straight season. With three matches to play, their magic number to secure the top spot sits at four points earned by the Riveters or dropped by second-place Flower City 1872.

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First half

Much as in the first meeting between the teams, the Riveters were on the front foot from the outset, but Erie stayed organized and defensive on their home turf. Bryan put the game’s first shot on target in the 14th minute, and Lola Abraham followed that up five minutes later with an ambitious chip from 45 yards that sailed wide of the net.

What would be the only goal of the match came in the 21st minute, when Abraham hit a high, diagonal ball forward to Bryan, who had slipped from the left side to a more central position with the Erie defense shifted the other way.

Bryan did the rest with ease, controlling the pass and scoring into the bottom corner of the net with her second touch. It was Bryan’s team-leading fourth goal of the season, and Abraham now leads the team in goal contributions with five (two goals, three assists).

Second half

Erie had some moments on the counter attack that the Riveters had to deal with, most notably a diagonal ball that sent Grace Emanuel into the box and toward goal until a sliding intervention by Bella Vozar broke up the play. The Riveters kept their clean sheet with a reworked back line, as Vozar was the only regular starter in her usual position at right back, while Brielle LaBerge moved inside and partnered with Gabby Lamparty at center back, and Brooke Fabri ably stepped in at left back.

Anna Korney had a chance to double the lead in the 65th minute after playing Bryan down the left and getting a return pass in front of goal. Korney’s shot beat the onrushing goalkeeper, but the Erie defense covered back to clear the ball off the line.

Clear-cut chances were scarce in the final 20 minutes, and the Riveters — who saw a 1-0 lead slip away last year at Erie — this time held on for the win.

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Hitachi Player of the Match

Gabby Lamparty made her first start of the season filling in for Piper Coffield at center back, and she helped anchor the back line to another shutout. Lamparty was particularly strong in the air, winning chances in the attacking half and defending a few late corner kicks for Erie.

What’s next?

After a busy stretch of matches, the team has a full week off before hosting the Cleveland Force (2-4-0) at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 21 at F.N.B. Stadium. The Riveters would be able to clinch the division that night if Flower City 1872 fails to win Thursday at Steel City FC.

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Riveters SC lineup (4-3-3) — Lexi Grundler; Brooke Fabri (Sydney Lindeman 90’), Brielle LaBerge, Gabby Lamparty, Bella Vozar; Shannon Studer (Annamarie Williams 60’), Emme Butera (Kate Friday 90’), Lola Abraham (Azalea Mihailovich 90’); Sabrina Bryan (Lilly Bane 78’), Emily Hanrahan (Minah Syam 60’), Anna Korney (Ashley Townsend 90’)

Erie Sports Center lineup (4-2-3-1) — Sara Csernyik; Audrey Eckwahl (Jordyn DiRaimo 90’), Ellie Mills (Carmela Cruzado 73’), Hannah Shepard, Destinee Robinson; Isabella Prince, Olivia Dixon; Grace Emanuel, Leya Bretz (Eliana Pound 53’), Brooklyn Respecki; Kylie Kress (Allie Zack 53’)

Scoring summary

PIT — Sabrina Bryan 21’ (Lola Abraham)

Discipline summary

ESC — Kylie Kress 33’ (caution – reckless foul)
PIT — Bella Vozar 42’ (caution – reckless foul)
ESC — Head coach Troy Bingham (caution – unsporting behavior)
PIT — Head coach Scott Gibson (caution – unsporting behavior)

PITTSBURGH (June 12, 2026) — Sabrina Bryan, Fiona Mahan and Emily Hanrahan found the net, and the Pittsburgh Riveters continued their stingy defensive run with a fourth straight shutout to defeat Erie Sports Center, 3-0, tonight at F.N.B. Stadium.

Lexi Grundler made two saves for her third clean sheet of the season for the Riveters (5-0-1), who have not allowed a goal in 369 consecutive minutes.

Erie (1-4-0) goalkeeper Morgan Sinan was strong under pressure by making 10 saves for the visitors.

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First half

The Riveters tried to open the floodgates early when Lola Abraham drove a ball from near the right sideline toward goal, hitting the crossbar in the sixth minute.

The early pressure eventually led to a 16th-minute goal, when Abraham slipped a pass between defenders to Bryan. With Sinan coming off her line, Bryan chopped the ball across her body, causing her defender and the goalkeeper to make contact and opening up a clear shot toward goal.

Bryan had a chance for a second in the 31st minute, but this time Sinan won the 1-on-1 battle with a save, and Bryan could not put an off-balance second effort on frame. Hanrahan also got one late chance to get through on goal, but she also was denied by Sinan.

Second half

Abraham slalomed through defenders just 30 seconds after play resumed, but her chance to get 1-on-1 with the keeper was denied by a sliding tackle from Audrey Eckwahl.

The Riveters finally doubled the lead in the 57th minute when Anna Korney drove toward the goal line and cut the ball back. Abraham wisely let the pass continue behind her where Mahan was waiting, and the midfielder fired home her first goal as a Riveter from the top of the box.

The wait for another goal was a brief one, as a minute later, Abraham sent another teammate alone toward goal. This time it was Hanrahan on the end of the pass, and she finished for her second goal in as many matches.

The Riveters struck the crossbar for the second time in the 77th minute when Lilly Bane rose high to head a left-footed cross from Mahan off the bar, but no more goals were to come from the remaining chances and a flurry of late corner kicks, of which the Riveters had 11 in the match.

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Hitachi Player of the Match

Lola Abraham didn’t find the net herself on four shots in the match, but the crafty forward played a role in all three Riveters goals with assists on the first and third while wisely making the decoy run on the second. 

What’s next?

Neither team gets time to rest, as the same two sides meet up again at 6 p.m. Sunday night at McConnell Family Stadium in Erie, Pa. Another victory could move the Riveters within a game of clinching a repeat of their Great Forest Division title, depending on other results over the weekend.

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Riveters SC lineup (4-3-3) — Lexi Grundler; Brielle LaBerge, Piper Coffield, Taylor Green (Gabby Lamparty 53’), Bella Vozar; Shannon Studer (Fiona Mahan 46’), Emme Butera (Kate Friday 70’), Ellen Molloy (Ellen Molloy 46’); Sabrina Bryan (Lilly Bane 64’), Emily Hanrahan (Azalea Mihailovich 70’), Lola Abraham (Minah Syam 64’)

Erie Sports Center lineup (4-2-3-1) — Morgan Sinan; Audrey Eckwahl (Eliana Pound 84’), Ellie Mills (Delaney Vilushis 66’), Hannah Shepard, Destinee Robinson; Isabella Prince, Olivia Dixon (Martina Latapi Gomez 84’); Brooklyn Respecki, Grace Emanuel, Madalene Cowburn (Carmela Cruzado 61’); Leya Bretz (Allie Zack 61’)

Scoring summary

PIT — Sabrina Bryan 16’ (Lola Abraham)
PIT — Fiona Mahan 57’ (Anna Korney)
PIT — Emily Hanrahan 58’ (Lola Abraham)

Discipline summary

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(June 6, 2026) — The Pittsburgh Riveters are in the driver’s seat in the Great Forest Division after taking a resounding 4-0 win over previously unbeaten Flower City 1872 this afternoon at Rochester Community Sports Complex in Rochester, N.Y.

Kennedy Neighbors, Sabrina Bryan, Tanum Nelson and Emily Hanrahan all scored for the Riveters (4-0-1), who move two points clear over Flower City (3-1-2) with a match in hand.

Lexi Grundler made one save for her second straight clean sheet — the team’s third in a row —and the Riveters completed their three-match road trip with a cumulative score of 9-0 in three victories.

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First half

Grundler was the first goalkeeper called into action when Flower City midfielder Mia Gray hit a firm shot through traffic from outside the box. The keeper stood tall to make the save, ending the fourth-minute threat.

In the ninth minute, the Riveters’ first shot found its way into the back of the net. Ellen Molloy had space at the top of the box and looked ready to shoot, but the Irish international instead slipped a well-weighted pass into the box for Neighbors, who softly finished to the right side of the goalkeeper for her first goal of the season.

The match continued to be played tightly after the teams battled to a 3-3 draw on the second week of the season, and by the 30-minute mark, the total shot count was just 2-2.

Flower City came close to tying the match in the 41st minute, but a shot from the top of the box by top scorer Eva Poissant got past Grundler’s dive before smacking off the left post and staying out.

Second half

The Riveters turned on the offense after the break, and Bryan doubled the lead in the 53rd minute.

Bryan, making her first start of 2026, received a pass inside the box from Nelson and then went to work, weaving around a pair of defenders with clever footwork before getting away a left-footed strike for her second of the year.

Nelson then got her first of the season in the 64th minute on the same field where she scored the first-ever Riveters goal in 2025. The midfielder worked a give-and-go with Neighbors moving across the top of the box to her right, allowing her to score back across goal with a low shot inside the left post.

The scoring wrapped up four minutes from time when Hanrahan, a former Flower City player, got her head on the end of a Fiona Mahan corner kick, putting the ball off the bar and over the line as she collided with Flower City goalkeeper Brigid Mulholland.

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Hitachi Player of the Match

Kennedy Neighbors takes the top honor for a second match in a row after contributing the opening goal and an assist on the third. The forward played all 90 minutes and reprised her strong work in the middle of the field to create space for her wide teammates.

What’s next?

With the three-match road trip in the rear view, the Riveters are back at home to host Erie Sports Center (1-2-0) at 6 p.m. Friday, June 12 at F.N.B. Stadium. Erie is off this weekend but will host FC Buffalo on Wednesday before the contest in Pittsburgh.

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Riveters SC lineup (4-3-3) — Lexi Grundler; Brielle LaBerge (Brooke Fabri 65’), Piper Coffield, Taylor Green (Gabby Lamparty 71’), Bella Vozar; Emme Butera (Minah Syam 78’), Tanum Nelson (Shannon Studer 71’), Ellen Molloy (Fiona Mahan 65’); Sabrina Bryan (Emily Hanrahan 65’), Kennedy Neighbors, Lola Abraham (Hadley Murrell 78’)

Flower City 1872 lineup (4-4-2) — Lindsay Parker (Brigid Mulholland 69’); Ella Perkins, Maya Ikewood (Caitlyn Smithers 78’), Kyleigh Bathe, Mikayla Perez (Lindsay Ford 69’); Maria Karipidis (Kaitlyn Springs 59’), Mia Gray (Finn Cregan 78’), Catherine Rogers (Audra Salvagni 69’), Amelia Breton (Valeria Luzio 59’); Andrea Wilson, Eva Poissant

Scoring summary

PIT — Kennedy Neighbors 9’ (Ellen Molloy)
PIT — Sabrina Bryan 53’ (Tanum Nelson)
PIT — Tanum Nelson 64’ (Kennedy Neighbors)
PIT — Emily Hanrahan 87’ (Fiona Mahan)

Discipline summary

FLC — Eva Poissant 54’ (caution – tactical foul)
FLC — Head coach Antonio La Gamba 87′ (caution – dissent)

(June 3, 2026) — Taylor Green, Alexis Tylenda and Lola Abraham each found the net to send the Pittsburgh Riveters to a second consecutive shutout road win by taking down the Cleveland Force tonight at Krenzler Field in Cleveland.

The win avenges the only regular-season loss suffered last year by the Riveters (3-0-1), who clamped down defensively to hand the Force (2-2-0) their first home defeat in two years.

Lexi Grundler made her Riveters debut in goal and needed to make only a single save for the shutout.

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First half

The match shaped up as a defensive battle with each team trying to create havoc for the other with their defensive pressure. The end result was an opening 30 minutes that saw just seven shots — 5-2 in the Riveters favor — and only one of those, taken by Kennedy Neighbors, finding the target.

The Riveters turned up the pressure heading to halftime, and in the 38th minute, Tylenda nearly opened the scoring with a curling left-footed shot from distance that struck the crossbar squarely and bounced away.

The opening goal came just a minute before halftime on a play that began from a corner kick.

The Force was unable to clear the ball fully, and the Riveters sent it back wide on the right to Emme Butera. Butera’s cross was flicked further across goal by Bella Vozar at the front post, and Green was waiting at the back post as the center back scored her team-leading third goal in four matches.

Second half

The Riveters’ offense kept rolling out of the break, and the lead was doubled in the 49th minute.

Tylenda carried the ball down the right side before playing Neighbors toward the goal line and into the box. Neighbors ran down the ball and dropped a pass back to Tylenda at the top of the box, and Tylenda ripped a shot that skimmed the underside of the crossbar for her second goal in as many matches.

Eight minutes later, the lead was 3-0 after Tanum Nelson won a challenge for the ball in the center circle to send it wide to Abraham on the right side. Abraham did the rest, dribbling all the way down the flank before cutting inside at the top of the box and setting up a left-footed shot placed into the bottom left corner of the net for her second goal of the season.

The Riveters continued to hold on defensively, and Grundler made her only save in the 81st minute as Force leading scorer Sophia Sindelar tried a shot from nearly 30 yards out. In addition to Grundler starting, both Azalea Mihailovich and Hadley Murrell made their Riveters debuts as substitutes in the match.

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Hitachi Player of the Match

Kennedy Neighbors contributed an assist on the game’s second goal and one shot on target. Her play and distribution, particularly from the middle of the field, allowed players like Tylenda and Abraham to find space down each wing and created problems for the Force throughout the match.

What’s next?

First place in the Great Forest Division will be on the line when the Riveters meet fellow unbeaten Flower City 1872 (3-0-2) at 3 p.m. Saturday, June 6 in Rochester, N.Y. Flower City and the Riveters played to a thrilling 3-3 draw on May 23 in Pittsburgh, and the New York side picked up a 4-2 win tonight over their in-state rivals, FC Buffalo.

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Riveters SC lineup (4-3-3) — Lexi Grundler; Brielle LaBerge (Brooke Fabri 72’), Piper Coffield (Gabby Lamparty 61’), Taylor Green, Bella Vozar; Emme Butera, Tanum Nelson (Kate Friday 81’), Ellen Molloy (Shannon Studer 61’); Lola Abraham (Azalea Mihailovich 72’), Kennedy Neighbors (Hadley Murrell 81’), Alexis Tylenda (Sabrina Bryan 61’)

Cleveland Force lineup (4-2-3-1) — Abigail Kudla; Meredith Werner (Cara Petry 60′), Lauren Mahoney (Mollie Finn 46′), Sarah Van Euwen, Alyssa Gimmel (Mikyla Hau-Golden 67’); Brynn Severance, Julia Rocky; Lilly Boebel (Kaylee Synk 46’, Mary Dziuba 68’), Sophia Sindelar, Chloe Hughes; Isabella Antonio

Scoring summary

PIT — Taylor Green 44’ (Bella Vozar)
PIT — Alexis Tylenda 49’ (Kennedy Neighbors)
PIT — Lola Abraham 57’ (Tanum Nelson)

Discipline summary

PIT — Lola Abraham 70’ (caution – reckless foul)
PIT — Head coach Scott Gibson (caution – leaving technical area)

INDIANA TOWNSHIP, Pa. (May 28, 2026) — Alexis Tylenda and Anna Korney found the net, and the Pittsburgh Riveters maintained bragging rights over their nearest foes by defeating Steel City FC, 2-0, on the road tonight at Founders Field.

Tylenda’s first-half goal was the first of the year for one of the top scorers a year ago for the Riveters (2-0-1), while 16-year-old Korney scored at Founders Field for the second straight year after becoming the youngest player to score for the club last season at age 15.

Bailey Herfurth made three saves in the Riveters goal for her second clean sheet of the season, as the Riveters shut out Steel City (1-1-0) for the first time.

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First half

The territorial edge went the way of the Riveters from the outset, including six corner kicks in the opening 31 minutes, but Steel City had the first major opportunity of the match.

Maya Matesa timed a run between the Riveters defense in the ninth minute to get in on goal, but Herfurth read the play well to close down the angle and make the close-range save.

The Riveters pulled ahead in the 19th minute after Kennedy Neighbors won the ball in front of the center circle. Neighbors played a ball through on the ground to Tylenda, who took a touch into the box and shot around the goalkeeper to open the scoring.

Lola Abraham and Tylenda both had further good chances in the half that forced saves from Steel City goalkeeper Ruby Morgan, who finished the match with 10 stops.

Second half

Tanum Nelson, the team’s leading goal scorer a season ago, nearly struck in her first match with the club in 2026. Her turning shot three minutes into the half was pushed off the crossbar by Morgan and bounced away to safety.

Also making her first appearance of the season was Korney, who entered as a substitute at the 60-minute mark. It would only take 10 minutes more before she was on the scoresheet.

Korney kept pressing high up the field and caught Morgan with the ball at her feet, blocking the goalkeeper’s clearance attempt from just outside of the box. The ball drifted into the left side of the penalty, where Korney took the time to compose herself and lift a shot into the top, near corner of the net, a spot where neither of the retreating Steel City defenders could make a play on it.

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Modelo Player of the Match

Alexis Tylenda spearheaded an attack that was looking for goal early and often. The opening goal was one of five shots — three on target — by Tylenda, who also led an active press and won a pair of free kicks in good positions.

What’s next?

The Riveters move on for the middle match of a three-game road swing when they travel to face the Cleveland Force at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 3. The Force (1-1-0) defeated Erie, 3-1, last night and hosts Steel City on Sunday before the Riveters come to town.

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Riveters SC lineup (4-3-3) — Bailey Herfurth; Brielle LaBerge, Piper Coffield (Gabby Lamparty 60’), Taylor Green, Bella Vozar (Ella Bulava 80’); Ellen Molloy (Lilly Bane 80’), Emme Butera, Tanum Nelson (Shannon Studer 65’); Lola Abraham (Kate Friday 80’), Kennedy Neighbors (Anna Korney 60’), Alexis Tylenda (Sabrina Bryan 65’)

Steel City FC lineup (4-2-3-1) — Ruby Morgan; Regan Reilly, Coco Dorfman (Emilee Tonkovich 72’), Emily Graeca (Kelsey Salopek 57’), Kayla Leseck; Margherita Memoli (Lauren Graeca 72’), Bri Ross; Sam Miller, Jaclyn Ketter (Jayden Sharpless 57’), Marissa Salisbury; Maya Matesa (Abigail Stager 57’)

Scoring summary

PIT — Alexis Tylenda 19’ (Kennedy Neighbors)
PIT — Anna Korney 70’

Discipline summary

STC — Assistant coach James Faint 58’ (caution – dissent)
PIT — Alexis Tylenda 65’ (caution – delaying restart)