6/21/2009

Major League Soccer Roundup, Jun. 20

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) - FC Dallas scored twice in the final 10 minutes, including Kenny Cooper's penalty kick in the 87th minute, for a 2-1 win over Columbus on Saturday night that snapped the Crew's nine-game unbeaten streak.

Dallas (3-7-4) was awarded a penalty kick after Crew defender Chad Marshall was called for a reckless foul inside the penalty box on David Ferreira, and Cooper notched his seventh goal of the year by putting the penalty kick into the left corner of the net.

Dallas had tied the game when Eric Avila scored his first career MLS goal in the 80th minute.

Pablo Campos converted a penalty and assisted on Ryan Johnson's sixth goal of the season for San Jose.

The Earthquakes (3-8-3) have seven points in their last four games after getting just five from their first 10.

Jovan Kirovski had his first goal of the season for the Galaxy (2-3-9), who lost for the second straight time following a 10-match unbeaten streak.

Seattle's Fredy Montero scored off a defensive miscue to extend the Red Bulls' winless streak to eight.

The Red Bulls ended a five-game league and six-game overall losing streak but extended their winless run to 0-5-2 in MLS and 0-6-2 with their 5-3 loss to D.C. United in the U.S Open Cup last month.

Juan Pablo Angel scored for New York (2-10-4) in the 40th minute, when defenders Tyrone Marshall and Patrick Ianni had the ball carom off each other as they were trying to clear and goalkeeper Kasey Keller slipped while coming out of the net.

Brian Ching scored in the 89th minute against 10-man Real Salt Lake to extend the Dynamo's unbeaten streak to a team record-tying 11 games.

Houston (8-2-4) had a five-game winning streak snapped but is 8-0-3 since a 1-0 loss to D.C. United on April 4. The Dynamo took over sole possession of first place in the Western Conference.

Ching charged through the box for a point-blank header from three yards after getting a pass from Brian Mullan on the right side.

Real Salt Lake (4-6-4) took the lead in the 28th minute on Fabian Espindola's goal, which was originally called an own goal after it went in off Houston defender Bobby Boswell.

Jamison Olave got his second yellow card in the 58th.

Omar Cummings scored twice and added an assist to help the Colorado Rapids extend their home unbeaten streak over D.C. United to nine games.

In the 11th minute, Cummings took a pass from captain Pablo Mastroeni and ran past defender Greg Janicki before pausing in the box and curling the ball past Josh Wicks in the United (5-2-8) goal.

Cummings found the back of the net just before halftime from a near-impossible angle to give the Rapids a 2-0 lead.

Cummings, who paired with recently acquired Pat Noonan up front for Colorado (5-2-5), has five goals this season.

United fell to 0-6-3 in its last nine trips to Colorado.