It was a good week for MLS clubs at the bottom of the standings. New York, mired in the Eastern Conference cellar, earned a point in a 1-1 tie with Seattle, while the Western Conference’s last two teams, FC Dallas and San Jose, both won. For all the game summaries, standings, leading scorers and this week’s schedule …
Results:
June 17 in Seattle
Seattle 3 D.C. United 3. Goals: Alonso (Riley, Evans) 38, own goal 45, Montero 57; Pontius (Quaranta) 34, Gomez 63, own goal 87.
Seattle – Keller, Riley, Hurtado, Marshall, Wahl, Ljungberg (King, 77), Alonso, Evans, Le Toux, Jaqua (Ianni, 85), Montero (Zakuani, 66).
D.C. United – Wicks, Namoff, Jakovic, Burch, Jacobson (Gomez, 46), Simms, Wallace, Fred (N’Silu, 21), Pontius, Quaranta, Emilio (Khumalo, 73).
Yellow Cards: D.C. United – Jakovic 84, Namoff 92+.
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
Att.: 29,104.
June 20 in Oakland, Calif.
San Jose 2 Los Angeles 1. Goals: Campos pen. 6, Johnson (Campos, Leitch) 54; Kirovski (Gordon, Magee) 65.
San Jose – Cannon, Leitch, McDonald, Pitchkolan, Zaher, Convey (Denton, 82), Corrales, Ribeiro, Huckerby, Campos (Wondolowski, 73), Johnson (Amarikwa, 85).
Los Angeles – Ricketts, DeLaGarza (Jordan, 76), Berhalter, Gonzalez, Dunivant, Klein (Bowen, 91+), Kirovski, Miglioranzi, Patterson (Gordon, 55), Buddle, Magee.
Yellow Cards: San Jose – Pitchkolan 24, Johnson 48, Huckerby 93+; Los Angeles – Kirovski 28.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Att.: 17,128.
June 20 in East Rutherford, N.J.
New York 1 Seattle 1. Goals: Angel 40; Montero 48+.
New York – Cepero, Hall, Goldthwaite (Borman, 74), Mendes, Pacheco, Zimmerman, Celades (Wolyniec, 81), Stammler, Rojas (Richards, 58), Angel, Kandji.
Seattle – Keller, Ianni, Marshall, Riley, Wahl, Zakuani, Alonso, Evans, Le Toux (Nyassi, 69), Montero, Jaqua (Levesque, 74).
Yellow Cards: New York – Kandji 11, Goldthwaite 36; Seattle – Marshall 83.
Referee: Paul Ward.
Att.: 14,313.
June 20 in Houston
Houston 1 Real Salt Lake 1. Goals: Ching (Mullan) 89; Espindola (Movsisyan, Wingert) 28.
Houston – Onstad, Waibel (Barrett, 8; Ashe, 61), Boswell, Cameron, Hainault, Mullan, Holden, Mulrooney, Davis, Kamara, Weaver (Ching, 46).
Real Salt Lake – Rimando, Beltran, Borchers, Olave, Wingert, Beckerman, Johnson, Morales, Mathis (Nunez, 76), Movsisyan (Grabavoy, 82), Espindola (Russell, 63).
Yellow Cards:
Real Salt Lake – Beltran 17, Olave 35, Morales 67, Rimando 72; Houston – Mulrooney 44.
Red Card: Real Salt Lake – Olave 58.
Referee: Jair Marrufo.
Att.: 17,151.
June 20 in Commerce City, Colo.
Colorado 3 D.C. United 0. Goals: Cummings (Mastroeni) 11,
Cummings 45, Clark (Cummings, Peterson) 49.
Colorado – Pickens, Ihemelu, Gibbs, Palguta, Harvey, Peterson (Kimura, 68), LaBrocca (Dalby, 81), Mastroeni, Clark, Cummings, Noonan (Ballouchy, 46).
D.C. United – Wicks, Janicki (Khumalo, 46), Jakovic, John, Namoff, Gomez, Olsen (N’Silu, 64), Simms, Wallace (McTavish, 64), Pontius, Quaranta.
Yellow Cards: Colorado – Gibbs 12; D.C. United – John 22,
Wallace 53.
Referee: Michael Kennedy.
Att.: 11,416.
June 20 in Frisco, Texas
FC Dallas 2 Columbus 1. Goals: Avila (Ferreira) 80, Cooper pen. 87; Own goal 17.
FC Dallas – Burse, Moor, Ricchetti, Davies, Wallace (Avila, 76), Saragosa (Shea, 45), McCarty, Rocha, Ferreira, van den Bergh (Cunningham, 65), Cooper.
Columbus – Gruenebaum, O’Rourke, Brunner, Marshall, Padula (Lenhart, 88), Ekpo (Garey, 81), Gaven, Carroll, Rogers, Schelotto, Moreno.
Yellow Cards: FC Dallas – Moor 32; Columbus – Padula 41, Schelotto 68, Marshall 86.
Referee: Terry Vaughn.
Att.: 8,041.
Standings:
EASTERN W L T GF GA P
D.C. United 5 3 8 25 24 23
Chicago 5 3 6 21 19 21
Kansas City 5 5 4 19 17 19
Columbus 4 3 7 20 20 19
Toronto FC 5 5 4 19 22 19
New England 4 4 4 15 20 16
New York 2 10 4 14 25 10
WESTERN W L T GF GA P
Houston 8 2 4 20 9 28
Chivas USA 8 4 3 19 12 27
Seattle 5 3 7 21 15 22
Colorado 5 2 5 20 14 20
Real Salt Lake 4 6 4 19 17 16
Los Angeles 2 3 9 16 18 15
FC Dallas 3 7 4 17 23 13
San Jose 3 8 3 17 27 12
Leading Scorers:
PLAYER (TEAM) GP G
Schelotto (Columbus) 14 10
Casey (Colorado) 10 8
Montero (Seattle) 13 7
Cooper (FC Dallas) 14 7
Donovan (Los Angeles) 11 6
Findley (Real Salt Lake) 12 6
Johnson (San Jose) 14 6
Lillingston (Chivas USA) 14 6
McBride (Chicago) 14 6
Wolff (Kansas City) 12 6
Schedule:
Wednesday, June 24
New York at Toronto FC, 7:30 p.m. ET
FC Dallas at Colorado, 9:30 p.m. ET
Saturday, June 27
New York at Columbus, 7:30 p.m. ET, FSC, FSE
Toronto FC at Real Salt Lake, 9:30 p.m. ET
Sunday, June 28
Colorado at Seattle 4:00 p.m. ET
Houston at Los Angeles 10:00 p.m. ESPN2, Deportes