{"id":71468,"date":"2026-04-11T19:55:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/lavelle-and-heaps-score-as-usa-women-ease-past-japan-to-open-friendly-series\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T19:55:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T00:55:52","slug":"lavelle-and-heaps-score-as-usa-women-ease-past-japan-to-open-friendly-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/lavelle-and-heaps-score-as-usa-women-ease-past-japan-to-open-friendly-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavelle and Heaps score as USA women ease past Japan to open friendly series"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Lavelle scores on landmark 100th US start<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Heaps adds winner after sweeping counter<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Emma Hayes\u2019 side make it 10 straight wins<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Rose Lavelle celebrated her 100th start with a goal and an assist to help the US women\u2019s national team to a 2-1 win in San Jose, California, on Saturday to open a three-match series against Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Lavelle, in her 119th match, scored in the ninth minute off a set piece then set up Lindsey Heaps in the 48th for the 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/apr\/11\/uswnt-japan-friendly-rose-lavelle-lindsey-heaps\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavelle scores on landmark 100th US start Heaps adds winner after sweeping counter Emma Hayes\u2019 side make it 10 straight wins Rose Lavelle celebrated her 100th start with a goal and an assist to help the US women\u2019s national team to a 2-1 win in San Jose, California, on Saturday to open a three-match series &#8230; <a title=\"Lavelle and Heaps score as USA women ease past Japan to open friendly series\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/11\/lavelle-and-heaps-score-as-usa-women-ease-past-japan-to-open-friendly-series\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lavelle and Heaps score as USA women ease past Japan to open friendly series\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}