KENNESAW - Behind a team-record two goals from forward Monica Ocampo, the streaking Atlanta Beat won their third straight game, beating the Washington Freedom 3-2 on Wednesday before an announced crowd of 3,339 at KSU Soccer Stadium.

"It was very good the way it ended," Ocampo said through a translator. "It was the two goals that I scored that put us ahead."

With the win, the Beat (4-7-4) picked up three points and moved within two points of fourth-place Sky Blue FC. With Chicago's 3-0 loss to Philadelphia on Wednesday, Atlanta is just just one point behind fifth-place Chicago and Washington (4-7-5).

Next for the Beat, however, will be their toughest match yet: a Sunday afternoon home game with first-place FC Gold Pride and league-leading scorer Marta. A?win against the West Coast power could vault Atlanta into fifth place, one spot out of the final WPS?playoff berth.

It won't be easy. Atlanta lost its first two meetings with FC?Gold Pride by a combined 6-1 margin.

"It's just great to get on a run," Beat coach Gareth O'Sullivan said. "We have a game in hand on Washington, and now maybe a game or two in hand on Chicago. It's points on the table, not games in hand that matter. But we are confident about our position now.

"It was nice to score three goals because we had been squeaking by with 1-nil wins the last two weeks. To come from behind in a game full of emotion, when not all of the calls went our way, it showed tremendous character on our part."

Down 2-1 after Washington scored in the 64th minute, Ocampo scored her second goal of the season in the 67th minute when she took a pass from over the top of the back line from midfielder McCall Zerboni. Ocampo drilled a low liner past goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris to the near post to equalize the match at 2-all.

In the 88th minute, Ocampo made a run to the far post and picked up a lob pass over the top from midfielder Aya Miyama, which she drilled into the top-right corner of the net for the game-winning goal.

Ocampo said it was the first game-winning goal she could remember scoring.

The goal gave the Beat their highest scoring total of the season, and the game-winning goal allowed Ocampo to become the first Beat player to score more than once in a game.

The Freedom's goal in the 64th minute was scored on Sarah Huffman's header off a pass from forward Abby Wambach. It was Wambach's league-leading eighth assist of the season.

In the first half, the Beat scored the first goal in 20th minute when Johanna Rasmussen received a through ball that she beat two Washington defenders to. She dribbled twice and laced a high liner that bounced high off the near post and into the back of the net.

Three minutes earlier, midfielder Aya Miyama appeared to put the Beat on the board when she drilled a free kick past Harris, but the goal was disallowed. It was ruled an indirect kick after the officials came together outside of the box and overruled the goal.

"The fourth official (Patrick Baker) said to me that it was an indirect kick, but the only people that thought it was indirect were on the Washington bench," O'Sullivan said. "After it went in, the center official signaled for a goal, and she thought that it was a goal. We'll go back and look at the tape, but she certainly thought that it was a goal."

Coming into Wednesday's game, Atlanta goalkeeper Hope Solo had a three-game personal shutout streak going, but the streak ended in the 41st minute when Nikky Marshall drove a low liner that deflected off Solo's gloves and trickled into the back of the net.

"Don't care," a smiling O'Sullivan said about the end of Solo's streak. "We got a win, and I'm sure (Solo) agrees, because we got three points."

Solo added a key stop in the 44th minute when she deflected a penalty kick from Freedom defender Sonia Bompastor, who was given the attempt after a sliding foul by the Beat's Tina Ellertson. Bompastor's strike was headed into the top-right corner of the net, but Solo got her hand on it.