The MetroStars and Kansas City played to a goalless stalemate at a high-noon showdown in New Jersey. … Landon Donovan scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season in a win over Dallas, which lost Jason Kreis to a knee injury in the 6th minute. … Marco Etcheverry notched his 100th MLS assist when he set up Eliseo Quintanilla's gamewinning goal in D.C. United's 1-0 win over Colorado. … Chicago's Damani Ralph set a new MLS rookie goalscoring record with a spectacular 90th minute equalizer in a 2-2 tie with Columbus. Ralph trapped the ball with his right foot, spun around and hammered a left-footer just under the crossbar.
Aug. 13 in East Rutherford, N.J.
METROSTARS (8-5-6, 30 pts) 0 KANSAS CITY (7-5-7, 28 pts) 0.
MetroStars — Walker, Ziadie, Jolley, Pope, Bartolomeu (JoeyDiGiamarino, 63), Clark, Lisi (Galvan, 93), Williams, Guevara, Magee (Wolyniec 52), Mathis..
Kansas City — Meola, Conrad, Zotinca, Garcia, Klein, Armstrong, Gutierrez, Quill (Fabbro, 87), Zavagnin, Preki (Gomez, 76), Simutenkov (Arnaud, 32)..
Yellow cards: MetoStars — Ziadie 51; Kansas City — Alex Zotinca 24, Quill 75, Gutierrez 81..
Red Card: Kansas City — Fabbro 118+..
Referee: Abiodun Okulaja.
Att.: 10,737
Aug. 13 in Southlake, Texas.
DALLAS (3-12-4, 13 pts) 0 SAN JOSE (10-3-6, 36 pts) 3..
Goals: Ching (Donovan, Ekelund) 11, Donovan 5 (Russell, Mulrooney) 23, Donovan (Mullan) 44..
Dallas — Countess, Hendrickson, Bonseu, Thomas, Gbandi, Vaca, Deering (Stone, 50), Pareja, Davis (Urbas, 75), Kreis (Johnson, 9), Nhleko..
San Jose — Onstad, Roner, Agoos (Waibel, 83), Robinson, Dunivant, Mullan, Mulrooney, Ekelund, Russell (Lagos, 78), Ching, Donovan (Alvarez, 86)..
Yellow card: Dallas — Pareja 55..
Referee: Kevin Terry.
Att.: 5,515..
Aug. 13 in Washington, D.C..
D.C. UNITED (7-6-6, 27 pts.) 1 COLORADO (7-9-3, 24 pts.) 0..
Goal: Quintanilla (Etcheverry, Olsen) 31..
D.C. United — Rimando, Prideaux, Petke (Ivanov, 81), Namoff, Quintanilla, Etcheverry (Stoitchkov, 76), Kovalenko, Nelsen, Olsen, Eskandarian (Curtis 64), Stewart..
Colorado — Garlick, Hart, Borchers, Fraser, Kotschau, Chris Henderson (Kingsley, 64), Beckerman (Trembly, 76), Mastroeni, Chung, Carrieri (Schmidt, 81), Spencer..
Yellow cards: D.C. United — Namoff 42, Nelsen 54, Curtis 85; Colorado — Mastroeni 32..
Referee: Terry Vaughn.
Att.: 10,556
Aug. 13 in Columbus.
COLUMBUS (5-8-6, 21pts) 2 CHICAGO (8-4-6, 30 pts) 2..
Goals: Buddle (Cunningham, Pineda Chacon) 47, West (Jeff Cunningham, Buddle 1) 52; Razov (pen) 34, Ralph (Jaqua, Williams) 90..
Columbus — Busch, Oughton, Clark, McCarty, Denton, West (Garcia, 59), Maisonneuve, Paule, Pineda Chacon (Matteo, 75), Buddle (Akwari, 89), Cunningham..
Chicago — Thornton, Gray, Curtin (Williams, 70), Bocanegra, Whitfield, Armas, Mapp (Jaqua, 81), Marsch (Perez, 85), Beasley, Ralph, Razov. Yellow cards: Denton 37, Buddle 68, Busch 74, Cunningham 80, McCarty 99, Bocanegra 98, 101+..
Red card: Chicago — Bocanegra 101+..
Referee: Brian Hall.
Att.: 17,193.