The good news for San Diego Wave FC is that Saturday at Snapdragon Stadium, the team managed to break a scoring drought dating back to mid-June.

The bad news is that it wasn’t enough to secure a win.

The Wave and its closest rival in the NWSL, Angel City FC, battled to a 1-1 draw in a match where the first goal before a crowd of 15,834 didn’t come until the 85th minute.

The final score in the latest clash between Southern California’s two professional women’s soccer teams mirrored the 1-1 draw that the clubs battled to during the first match of the season on March 16 in Los Angeles.

After neither squad scored in the opening half on Saturday, it became the third consecutive contest in which the Wave failed to register a goal in the first 45 minutes of a match.

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