Wave, in Washington, seek to crash Spirit’s party

Wave star Alex Morgan and her teammates will try to get untracked in Saturday afternoon’s game against the Spirit in Washington, D.C.

The Wave’s Alex Morgan kicks the ball during the second half of a June 7 game against Orlando at Snapdragon Stadium.

The Wave hope Morgan and the club’s other would-be goal-scorers quench their scoring thirst in the 4:30 p.m. match at D.C.’s soccer-specific, 20,000-seat stadium en route to San Diego’s first road win in six tries. Nor does Savannah McCaskill require a reminder to “stay thirsty, my friend.” Angel City’s all-time leader in goals with 11 in 42 matches hasn’t found the net in her first season with the Wave, although she has contributed in other ways, as have Morgan and Sanchez.

Obligations with their respective national squads have made it tougher for each veteran to get into the Wave’s flow, Stoney said. Sanchez, for example, played in Mexico’s recent exhibition, a 2-0 loss to Canada in Montreal. Just three nights after playing 61 minutes as part of the Americans’ 3-0 win over South Korea, Morgan went for 55 minutes Friday.

“We had good moments, we got into good spaces,” the coach said after her team got off 19 shots last week against first-place Orlando in the 1-1 tie. “It was either a touch or a decision or a final action that let us down.

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