Sept. 6 in Washington DC
DC United 2 Los Angeles 1. Goals: Kovalenko (Quintanilla, Stewart) 3; Olsen (Stewart, Quintanilla) 29; Serna (Lalas, Jones) 51.
DC United — Rimando, Ivanov, Nelsen, Prideaux, Petke, Quintanilla, Etcheverry (Eskandarian, 84), Kovalenko, Olsen (Convey, 63), Cerritos, Stewart.
Los Angeles — Hartman, Califf, Hong, Lalas, Albright (Moreno, 68), Cienfuegos, Elliott, Vagenas, Jones, Serna, Ruiz.
Yellow Cards: DC United — Petke 34, Quintanilla 69; Los Angeles — Albright 60.
Referee: Abiodun Okulaja.
Att.: 21,077.
Sept. 6 in Kansas City
Kansas City 1 MetroStars 2. Goals: Preki pen. 79; Mathis (Guevara) 46+; Mathis (Wolyniec) 59.
Kansas City — Meola, Conrad, Garcia, Gutierrez, Klein, Preki, Zavagnin (Gomez, 71), Zotinca (Harris, 60), Quill (Armstrong, 81), Simutenkov, Wolff.
MetroStars — Walker, Leitch, Jolley, Pope, DiGiamarino, Guevara (Gaven, 92+), Lisi (Forchetti, 86), Clark, Williams, Mathis (Magee, 77), Wolyniec.
Yellow Cards: Kansas City — Simutenkov 35, Zavagnin 42, Meola 94+, Gomez 94+; MetroStars — DiGiamarino 2, Mathis 68, Guevara 79, Magee 94+.
Referee: Brian Hall.
Att.: 17,152.
Sept. 6 in Denver
Colorado 2 Dallas 1. Goals: Carrieri (Spencer, Henderson) 54, Henderson (Chung) 76; Davis pen. 24.
Colorado — Garlick, Hart, Borchers, Mastroeni, Kotschau, Henderson, Beckerman, Crawford, Chung, Carrieri, Spencer.
Dallas — Countess, Hendrickson, Behncke, Thomas, Dunseth, Vaca (Rhine, 72), Deering, Pareja, Davis, Glinton (Johnson, 63), Nhleko.
Yellow Cards: Colorado — Beckerman 13; Dallas — Glinton 57, Nhleko 75, Johnson 77.
Red Card: Colorado — Chung 90.
Referee: Marcel Yonan.
Att.: 15,726.
Sept. 6 in Naperville, Ill.
Chicago 1 Columbus 1 (OT). Goals: Bocanegra (Armas) 66; Buddle (Denton) 37.
Chicago — Thornton, Brown, Curtin, Bocanegra, Whitfield, Armas, Mapp (Williams, 88), Marsch (Gray, 91+), Beasley, Ralph, Razov.
Columbus — Busch, Hejduk, Akwari, Clark, Denton, West (McCarty, 91+), Martino (Pineda Chacon, 91), Oughton, Garcia, Buddle (Maisonneuve, 85), McBride.
Yellow Cards: Chicago — Marsch 52, Curtin 94; Columbus — Oughton 49, Buddle 53, West 89.
Referee: Gus St. Silva.
Att.: 15,136.
Sept. 7 in San Jose
San Jose 2 New England 1. Goals: Noonan (Ralston) 41; De Rosario (Mullan, Agoos) 42, Donovan (Ekelund) 52.
San Jose — Onstad, Waibel, Agoos, Robinson, Dunivant, Mullan, Ekelund, Mulrooney, Corrales, Donovan, Lagos (De Rosario 31; Walker, 87).
New England — A.Brown, Heaps, Llamosa, Pierce, Franchino, Ralston, Cancela, Joseph, Kamler (Leonard, 72), Fabbro (J.-M. Moore, 60), Noonan.
Yellow cards: San Jose — Corrales 30, Ekelund 58, Mullan 83; New England — Pierce 63, Pierce 83.
Red card: New England — Pierce 83.
Referee: Noel Kenny.
Att.: 13,510.