CARY — Brian Plotkin hammered home a rebound in the 59th minute to give the Carolina RailHawks a win that few, USL-1 teams can boast — defeating the Panama national team ranked No. 61 in the world on Tuesday.

Granted, several of the big names of the Panamanian team did not play in the contest — only one starter from Panama's Sunday loss to the Honduran national team was carried over and only four starters played at all against the RailHawks — but the win is a significant one in the short history of the fledgling franchise that had never before played against a full national team.

Plotkin found himself with an open shot from 12 yards out when he found the far right corner of the net, putting the ball past Panama's Oscar Mcfarlane.

Plotkin collected the ball after it ricocheted off the top post thanks to teammate Andriy Budnyy. Bundyy had fired a near impossible-shot deep in the far-right corner of the '18 after Luke Kreamalmeyer saved possession right in front of him.

"We kept it in and kept shooting and they blocked it. Luke tried to play the ball across and it got hit out but not all the way and it fell to Andriy," Plotkin said. "He hit a shot on goal and then it bounced off the post and bounced out to me."

On the last day of the month, the RailHawks won only the second time in June (2-3-2).

"The results didn't go our way and some moments we didn't play as good as we should have, but it's a 30-game season and you're not always going to have good patches," Plotkin said.

"Any team is going to beat any team on a given day ... Every team is going to go through spells like that and we have enough character and personality to overcome that."

Plotkin added the team is approaching next month as the turning of a page, hoping to put June's troubles behind them.

Eric Reed posted the shutout, making five saves and watching eight more shots sail wide.

The RailHawks played three new players — so new they didn't even have names stitched on the back — on a trialist basis. Daniel Ogunmade, Chad Burt and Tim Reagan are the identities of the nameless players who saw the field for the first time as a RailHawk.