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[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Edgar Castillo played the first 89 minutes for Santos Laguna as it thumped Atlas, 5-2. The win keeps Santos on top of the overall Apertura 2007 standings. Michael Orozco went the full 90 in San Luis’s 3-2 win at Tecos.

[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Santos Laguna, whose 11-game undefeated streak ended Oct. 12 while U.S. product Edgar Castillo was on Mexican national team duty, got back to winning ways with a 3-2 win over Morelia. Left back Castillo started and went the full 90 as Santos improved its record to 9-1-3 (win-loss-tie) in the Apertura 2007.

It was supposed to be Los Angeles fans’ first glimpse of the great Mexico team of the future with the Spanish-based trio of Andres Guardado, Carlos Vela and Barcelona starlet Giovani Dos Santos in the starting lineup and New Mexican Edgar Castillo coming off the bench. But what the 42,350 fans saw on Wednesday night was one of the most stunning defeats in the history of the Mexican national team program. Guatemala beat the Tri for the first time in 40 years, winning, 3-2, in an incident-filled game that featured six red cards and seven yellow cards.

[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Edgar Castillo made his 11th straight start and Santos extended its season-long undefeated streak in the Mexican Apertura to 11 games with a 3-2 win over UNAM Pumas. Santos leads the overall standings, two points ahead of Atlante, the league’s other undefeated squad.

[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Santos Laguna tied, 1-1, at Monterrey to remain undefeated in the Mexican Apertura season after eight games, all of which have seen New Mexico product Edgar Castillo go the full 90. Texas product Sonny Guadarrama entered the game for Santos in the 88th minute for his second appearance of the season. Californian Jesus Padilla made his fifth appearance in Chivas Guadalajara’s 1-0 win over Cruz Azul, coming on as a 64th minute sub.

[AMERICANS ABROAD]. Santos Laguna thumped Club America, 4-0, to remain the only unbeaten team after seven game days in the Apertura 07. Santos’ U.S. product Edgar Castillo went the full 90 for the seventh straight game.

[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Santos Laguna is no longer perfect in Apertura 2007 play but remains undefeated after a 2-2 with Atlante in which Edgar Castillo played his sixth-straight full game for Santos. Jesus Padilla, 20, who was born in Mexico and raised in San Jose, Calif., made his third appearance, all as a sub, in Chivas Guadalajara’s 1-0 win over Tigres.

[AMERICANS ABROAD] Santos Laguna remains perfect in the Mexican Apertura 2007 season with a 2-1 win over Chivas Guadalajara on Wednesday. U.S. product Edgar Castillo went the full 90 for the fifth time this season. Texan Sonny Guadarrama made his first appearance of the season for Santos as a 68th minute sub. Californian Michael Orozco made his fifth appearance of the season for San Luis in its 2-1 win over Veracruz.

[AMERICANS IN MEXICO] Four days after U.S. product Edgar Castillo, who has dual citizenship, debuted for the Mexican national team, he helped Santos Laguna become the last Mexican League team with a perfect record with a 1-0 win over defending champion Pachuca. Both teams came into the game with a 3-0-0 record. Castillo went the full 90 in all four Santos’ wins. Texas-born Jose Francisco Torres, a 19-year-old, went the full 90 in his second start of the season for Pachuca.

Mexico, fielding a team filled with candidates for its U-23 team preparing for Olympic qualifying, fell 1-0 to Colombia in Commerce City, Colo., on a goal 53rd minute goal by Jaime Castrillón in front of 17,737 fans. U.S. product Edgar Castillo entered the game in the 65th minute.

Mexico, eight of whose 17 games in 2007 have taken place on U.S. soil, faces Colombia in a friendly in Commerce City, Colo., on Wednesday (TV: live, 10 pm ET, Telemundo). Of its three remaining games this year after the Colombia clash, Mexico will play two in the USA. That means El Tri will have played 11 of its 2007 games in the USA and four in Mexico.

Edgar Castillo, who was born and raised in Las Cruces, N.M., has been named to Mexico’s roster by Coach Hugo Sanchez for its friendly against Colombia in Commerce City, Colo., on Wednesday. Castillo, who has dual citizenship, has not been called into U.S. national team or Olympic (U-23) camps despite starting at left back for Santos Laguna of the Mexican First Division since January.