Boston Breakers score with fans

The halfway point of the Boston Breakers inaugural Women’s Professional Soccer season came Wednesday night in front of 3,128 fans at Harvard Stadium.

Boston, one of the better teams in the league on paper, started strong and remained in second place until two weeks ago. The Breakers now sit tied for fourth place with two other teams with a 3-4-3 record heading into tonight’s (Saturday’s) game at Chicago.

Wednesday night, the Breakers got a late goal from Jenny Nobis, her first of the season, to come back and earn a tie with FC Gold Pride. England’s Kelly Smith, Boston’s leading scorer, launched a well-placed corner kick to the far corner of the box in the 76th minute and Nobis leaped up over a pack of defenders to knock the ball into the net. Heading into Wednesday game, Nobis had played in only two of Boston’s first nine matches.

“One of the things I like to do is head balls, and I know if I’m in the box, give it to my head, not my feet,” Nobis said. “I saw it in the air, and one thing to do is get a body on it and hope that someone gets on the end of it.”

Boston played perhaps its most sluggish and sloppy first half of the season Wednesday. The team conceded a goal in the 15th minute after failing to clear a ball sent along the top of the 18 from Gold Pride’s Tiffeny Milbrett. Canadian international Christine Sinclair jumped on a deflection from Boston’s Candace Chapman and one-timed a rocket past Boston keeper Alli Lipsher, in her first start of the season.