* San Jose's Brian Ching's two goals in the Quakes' 4-2 win over Los Angeles moved him into a second-place tie in the scorer's race with Los Angeles' Alejandro Moreno, who scored a midweek hat trick against D.C. United. They're three points behind Los Angeles' injured Carlos Ruiz.

* 23 goals in Week 8's six matches brought the league's scoring rate up to 2.61 goals per game (after 38 games) from 2.38 (after 32 games).

* A Colorado crowd of 31,443 to watch D.C. United and Freddy Adu kept the league's attendance average above the 15,000 mark despite only one of the other five Week 8 games breaking the 13,000 mark (D.C. United-Los Angeles on Wednesday).

STANDINGS
Eastern Conference
Team W-L-T PTS
Metrostars 2-1-4 10
Chicago 2-2-4 10
DC United 2-4-3 9
Columbus 2-3-2 8
New England 1-3-3 5

Western Conference
Team W-L-T PTS
Los Angeles 4-2-3 15
San Jose 3-2-3 12
Kansas City 3-2-2 11
Colorado 2-1-4 10
Dallas 2-3-2 8

SCHEDULE (home team first, times ET)

Saturday, May 29
New England-DC United 7:30 pm (HDnet)
Columbus-San Jose 7:30 pm (Fox Sports World, Fox Sports En Espanol)
Chicago-Colorado 8:30 pm
Los Angeles-Dallas 10:00 pm (ESPN2 – 1:30 am ET delay)

Sunday, May 30
MetroStars-Kansas City 7:30 pm

WEEK 6 RESULTS
Wednesday, May 19
D.C. United 2 Los Angeles 4

Saturday, May 22
New England 1 MetroStars 1
Kansas City 2 Dallas 0
Colorado 2 D.C. United 1
San Jose 4 Los Angeles 2

Sunday, May 23
Chicago 1 Columbus 3

LEADING SCORERS
Player (team) goals-assists: points
Carlos Ruiz (Los Angeles) 6-2: 14
Brian Ching (San Jose) 5-1: 11
Alejandro Moreno (Los Angeles) 5-1: 11
Landon Donovan (San Jose) 2-4: 8
Amado Guevara (Metrostars) 3-2: 8
Andreas Herzog (Los Angeles) 2-4: 8
Jean Phillippe Peguero (Colorado) 3-2: 8
Fabian Taylor (Metrostars) 4-0: 8
Cornell Glen (Metrostars) 3-1: 7
Jovan Kirovski (Los Angles) 3-1: 7
Jaime Moreno (DC United) 2-3: 7
Damani Ralph (Chicago) 3-1: 7
Josh Wolff (Kansas City) 2-3: 7
Dema Kovalenko 2-2: 6
Freddy Adu (DC United) 2-1: 5
Davy Arnaud (Kansas City) 2-1: 5
Eddie Johnson (Dallas) 2-1: 5
Joseph Ngwenya (Los Angeles) 2-1: 5
Pat Noonan (New England) 2-1: 5
Ante Razov (Chicago) 2-1: 5
Bobby Rhine (Dallas) 2-1: 5

GOALKEEPER SAVES LEADERS
Player (Team) Saves
Pat Onstad (San Jose) 39
Kevin Hartman (Los Angeles) 39
Henry Ring (Chicago) 36
Jon Busch (Columbus) 35
Scott Garlick (Dallas) 31
Adin Brown (New England) 30
Joe Cannon (Colorado) 28
Jonny Walker (Metrostars) 26
Tony Meola (Kansas City) 20
Nick Rimando (DC United) 13

ATTENDANCE
Team: average home attendance
Los Angeles: 23,338
Metrostars: 18,920
DC United: 18,681
Columbus: 16,774
Kansas City: 15,797
Colorado: 15,267
New England: 13,374
Chicago: 11,648
San Jose 11,407
Dallas: 8,220
Leaguewide: 38 games, 587,464 fans for 15,460.

GOALSCORING AVERAGE
Team: goals scored per game
Los Angeles: 2.00
Metrostars: 2.00
San Jose: 2.00
DC United: 1.22
Chicago: 1.00
Kansas City: 1.00
New England: 1.00
Colorado: 0.86
Columbus: 0.86
Dallas: 0.86
Leaguewide goals per game average: 2.61 goals per game