It’s exactly half way through the inaugural season with 35 of the scheduled 70 games completed.

Player of the Week
It stands to reason that if you score the only goal in three WPS games last weekend that you’d win the Player of the Week award.

Saint Louis forward Eniola Aluko duly took the honor after scoring her third goal of the season to lead Athletica to a 1-0 road triumph over the Boston Breakers. The other two games – Washington Freedom-Chicago Red Stars and Sky Blue FC-Sol – ended in scoreless ties.

Here’s the goal and game highlights:

Five different Sol players have won the award, BTW. Here’s the full list:

Week 1: Aya Miyama (Los Angeles Sol)
Week 2: Marta (Los Angeles Sol)
Week 3: Kelly Smith (Boston Breakers)
Week 4: Aly Wagner (Los Angeles Sol)
Week 5: Abby Wambach (Washington Freedom)
Week 6: Sonia Bompastor (Washington Freedom)
Week 7: Lori Chalupny (Saint Louis Athletica)
Week 8: Christine Sinclair (FC Gold Pride)
Week 9: Jillian Loyden (Saint Louis Athletica)
Week 10: Shannon Boxx (Los Angeles Sol)
Week 11: Camille Abily (Los Angeles Sol)
Week 12: Eniola Aluko (Saint Louis Athletica)

Yanks Shooting Blanks
Where are the American strikers anyway? Last weekend’s goal by the English international means foreign players have now scored seven more goals in WPS than U.S. players. And no American has more than two.

Top scorers:
6 Camille Abily (Sol and France)
5 Kelly Smith (Boston Breakers and England)
4 Christine Sinclair (FC Gold Pride and Canada), Marta (Sol and Brazil)
3 Eniola Aluko (St. Louis Athletica and England), Sonia Bompastor (Washington Freedom and France), Lisa De Vanna (Washington Freedom and Australia)

BTW, WPS has seen 73 goals scored since the inaugural game, an average of 2.09 goals per game.

Attendance Update
WPS officials claim the league is averaging 5,008 fans per game, not including a pair of doubleheaders with MLS teams. That’s about what the league anticipated it would draw.

Miscellanea
All dads get in free Sunday at Home Depot Center when the Sol play FC Gold Pride at 3 p.m. in a game that will also be televised on Fox Soccer Channel. … Mia Hamm and Joy Fawcett will be honored at half time as part of the WPS’ 10th anniversary recognition of the U.S. Women’s National Team’s iconic 1999 World Cup win at the Rose Bowl. Two other members of that team who play for FC Gold Pride – Brandi Chastain and Tiffeny Milbrett – will join Fawcett (but not the shy Hamm) in signing autographs after the game. … Expansion team Atlanta will make a “major announcement” Thursday, presumably unveiling the team name and colors.