American soccer this weekend ...

• by Soccer America , Sep 6, 2011

[SCOREBOARD] Gerson Mayen, on loan from Chivas USA, scored to give the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers a 1-0 win over the MLS-bound Montreal Impact and open up a six-point lead on the Impact in the battle for the sixth and final berth in the NASL playoffs. Depleted by call-ups to Puerto Rico's national team for World Cup 2014 qualifying, the Puerto Rico Islanders had their six-game unbeaten run halted when they fell to the last-place Atlanta Silverbacks, 2-0. For all the action ...

MLS RESERVE LEAGUE
Results:
Sept. 3
Portland 3 Los Angeles 3.
LA: Miguel Lopez (Jack McBean, Ryan Thomas) 42
POR: Bright Dike (Eric Alexander, Darlington Nagbe) 50
LA: Ryan Thomas (Jovan Kirovski) 66
LA: Paolo Cardozo (unassisted) 72
POR: Darlington Nagbe (Rodrigo Lopez) 78
POR: Darlngton Nagbe (unassisted) 90+2

Sept. 2
New England 2 Toronto FC 1.
NE: own goal 67
TFC: Mikael Yourassawski (unassisted) 74
NE: Zack Schilawski (Benny Feilhaber) 91+

Sept. 1
Colorado 3 Houston 0.
COL: Quincy Amarikwa (Sterling Copeland) 4
COL: Andre Akpan (Quincy Amarikwa) 35
COL: Andre Akpan (Quincy Amarikwa) 60

Aug. 30
Toronto FC 1 D.C. United 1.
TFC:  Nathan Sturgis (pen.) 41
DC: Joseph Ngwenya (unassisted) 90+2

Aug. 28
Chicago 0 Colorado 2.
COL: Quincy Amarikwa (pen.) 13
COL: Steven Emory (unassisted) 20

Standings:
Eastern Conference
PTS TEAM W-L-T +/-
17 D.C. United 5-0-2 17/8
16 New England 5-2-1 15/12
12 Columbus 4-1-0 12/5
6 New York 2-3-0 6/11
4 Philadelphia 1-5-1 6/13
2 Toronto FC 0-4-2 6/10
Central Conference
PTS TEAM W-L-T +/-
13 Chicago 4-1-1 13/5
12 Houston 4-3-0 6/9
11 Real Salt Lake 3-3-2 8/7
9 FC Dallas 3-2-0 6/9
8 Sporting KC 2-2-2 6/5
7 Colorado 2-5-1 7/6
Western Conference
PTS TEAM W-L-T +/-
21 Seattle 7-1-0 15/8
14 Portland 4-2-2 17/15
10 San Jose 3-3-1 10/8
6 Chivas USA 1-2-2 8/9
5 Vancouver 1-4-2 8/13
5 Los Angeles 1-5-2 10/18

Schedule:
Sept. 6
Chicago vs. Real Salt Lake
FC Dallas  vs. Sporting KC
Vancouver vs. San Jose
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NASL
Results:
Sept. 3
Carolina 2 FC Tampa Bay 0.
CAR: Pablo Campos (Kupono Low) 19
CAR: Pablo Campos (Brian Farber) 38
Att.: 3,015.
Atlanta 2 Puerto Rico 0.
ATL: Matt Horth (Shane Moroney) 28
ATL: Matt Horth (Raphael Cox) 30
Fort Lauderdale 1 Montreal 0.
FTL: Gerson Mayen (Mike Palacio) 71
Att.: 2,477.
FC Edmonton 3 NSC Minnesota 1
MIN: Brian Cvilikas (Andrei Gotsmanov) 43
FCE: Kyle Yamada (Kyle Porter) 56
FCE: Shaun Saiko (Rein Baart) 69
FCE: Daniel Antoniuk (unassisted) 90
Att.: 1,823.

Aug. 30
Puerto Rico 1 FC Edmonton 1.
FCE: Michael Cox 46
PR: Jonathan Fana 51

Standings:
PTS TEAM W-L-T +/-
54 Carolina 17-4-3 49/21
45 Puerto Rico 13-6-6 38/31
34 FC Tampa Bay 9-8-7 36/33
33 FC Edmonton 9-10-6 32/35
29 NSC Minnesota 7-9-8 26/32
31 Ft. Lauderdale 7-10-7 31/32
25 Montreal 6-11-7 27/26
15 Atlanta 4-17-3 23/54

Schedule:
Sept. 6
NSC Minnesota vs. FC Tampa Bay
Sept. 7
Puerto Rico vs. Montreal
Fort Lauderdale vs. Carolina
FC Edmonton vs. Atlanta
Sept. 10
Puerto Rico vs. FC Tampa Bay
NSC Minnesota vs. Atlanta
Montreal vs. Carolina
FC Edmonton vs. Fort Lauderdale
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CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Standings:
Group A
PTS TEAM W-T-L +/-
6 Los Angeles Galaxy 2-0-0 4/0
3 Morelia 1-0-1 4/1
3 Alajuelense 1-0-1 1/2
0 Motagua 0-0-2 0/6
Group B
PTS TEAM W-T-L +/-
4 Colorado Rapids 1-1-0 4/3
3 Isidro Metapan 1-0-1 4/3
3 Santos 1-0-1 3/4
1 Real Espana 0-1-1 3/4
Group C
PTS TEAM W-T-L +/-
6 FC Dallas 2-0-0 2/0
3 Toronto FC 1-0-1 2/1
1 Tauro FC 0-1-1 1/2
1 UNAM 0-1-1 0/1
Group D
PTS TEAM W-T-L +/-
6 Seattle Sounders 2-0-0 5/1
3 Monterrey 1-0-1 5/1
3 Comunicaciones 1-0-1 3/4
0 Herediano 0-0-2 0/7