Former BYU star Ashley Hatch scores for the USWNT in international tournament

FILE — United States’ Ashley Hatch celebrates after scoring her group’s first objective in the course of the worldwide soccer match between america and Australia at Stadium Australia in Sydney, Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021.

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Former BYU Cougars soccer star Ashley Hatch has picked up in 2022 proper the place she left off in 2021 with america Girls’s Nationwide Crew.

Hatch got here on at halftime of the USWNT’s first sport of 2022 Sunday towards New Zealand within the annual SheBelieves Cup in Carson, California, and scored 5 minutes in a while a header after a pleasant ball into the field from Sofia Huerta.

Hatch’s objective put america up 4-0, though it was the group’s first objective after the preliminary three had been dominated personal targets.

It got here after Hatch was the final participant to attain for the USWNT in 2021. Sunday’s objective was her third profession rating for the nationwide group.

The 26-year-old Hatch was a finalist for MVP in 2021 within the Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League after main the league in targets enjoying for the Washington Spirit, which finally gained the league championship.