Bay FC, the Bay Area’s new professional women’s soccer team, lost the first home match of their inaugural season in heartbreaking fashion this weekend, falling 3-2 to the Houston Dash at PayPal Park in San Jose.

Playing in front of a sold-out crowd of 18,000 fans, Bay FC lost via a last-minute goal by Houston’s Havana Soulaun to break a 2-2 tie.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.