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A soccer ball with the Northern Super League logo sits on a table before a league news conference on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Lena Silano scores twice to pace AFC Toronto to 3-0 win over Ottawa Rapid in NSL

Sep 26, 2026 | 3:37 PM

TORONTO — Lena Silano scored twice for AFC Toronto in a 3-0 blanking of Ottawa Rapid FC in the Northern Super League on Saturday.

Silano struck in the 44th and 49th minutes for Toronto (10-5-7), which ranked second in the women’s pro soccer league standings two points behind Montreal, and just a point ahead of Ottawa (11-8-3).

Sarah Stratigakis came off the bench to score Toronto’s third goal in the 82nd minute.

Keeper Sabrina D’Angelo, a two-time Olympian who has played for Canada for a decade, produced a clean sheet for Toronto.

Toronto carried an 8-4 advantage in on-target shots and produced 14 crosses to Ottawa’s nine.

Silano stripped Ottawa goalie Mollie Eriksson of the ball to score her first and then booted a low bouncer to the right corner for her brace.

Ottawa’s Delaney Pridham, the NSL’s player of the year in its first season in 2025 and the team’s leading scorer with five goals, returned to the Rapid’s lineup after missing five games with an injury.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 26, 2026.

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