MLS this weekend ...

• by Soccer America , Sep 10, 2011

[SCOREBOARD] Sporting Kansas City beat the Houston Dynamo, 3-0, to move into a tie for first place in MLS's Eastern Conference with the Columbus Crew, which fell at home to Toronto FC, 4-2. The three goals -- including two from Teal Bunbury -- tied SKC with the Seattle Sounders for 43 goals, the most in MLS. For all the action ...

WEEK 26 RESULTS:
Sept. 10 in Carson, Calif.
Chivas USA 0 D.C. United 3. Goal: Davies 9 (Pontius 3, De Rosario 9) 11, Davies 10 (Pontius 4) 14, Davies 11 (Pontius 5, De Rosario 10) 66.
Chivas USA -- Kennedy, Zemanski, Umana, Junior Lopes, Jazic, Gavin (Lahoud 73), LaBrocca, Elliott, Flores (Courtois 62), Braun (Moreno 57), Angel.
D.C. United -- Hamid, Kitchen, McDonald, White, Woolard, Najar, Simms (King 46), Quaranta (Da Luz 62), Pontius (Burch 73), De Rosario, Davies.
Red Card: Chivas USA -- Junior Lopes 69.
Referee: Ricardo Salazar.
Att.: 12,245.
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Sept. 10 in Santa Clara, Calif.
San Jose 2 Chicago 0. Goals: Wondolowski 10 (Baca 1) 10, Corrales 2 (Wondolowski 3, Stephenson 3) 69
Chicago -- Johnson, Anibaba, Gargan, Gibbs, Pappa (Barouch 72), Grazzini, Pardo, Pause, Husidic (Chaves 60), Nyarko, Oduro.
San Jose -- Busch, Beitashour, Burling, Hernandez (Attakora 61), Corrales, Gjertsen (Peterson 80), Cronin, Dawkins, Baca, Stephenson, Wondolowski (Luzunaris 89).
Referee: Geoff Gamble.
Att.: 10,525.
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Sept. 10 in Foxboro, Mass.
New England 2 FC Dallas 0. Goals: Joseph 8 (Zerka 1, Caraglio 1) 14, Lekic 6 (Cochrane 1, Feilhaber 4) 84.
New England -- Reis, Alston, Coria (Cochrane 72), Soares, Barnes, Zerka (Guy 80), Joseph, Feilhaber, Tierney, Lekic, Caraglio (Mansally 73).
FC Dallas -- Hartman, Jacobson, Loyd, John, Benitez (Galindo 80), Jackson, Cruz (Luna 69), Villar, D.Hernandez, Shea (Hall 46), Maicon Santos.
Referee: Baldomero Toledo.
Att.: 15,498.
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Sept. 10 in Columbus, Ohio
Columbus 2 Toronto FC 4. Goals: Heinemann 3 (Rogers 6, Ekpo 2) 67, Mendoza 9 (Heinemann 1, Cunningham 1) 87; Soolsma 2 (Frings 1) 21, Johnson 2 (Plata 5, de Guzman 2) 42, de Guzman 2 (unassisted) 83, Koevermans 4 (de Guzman 3) 92+.
Columbus -- Hesmer, Miranda, Marshall, James, Gardner, Rogers, Ekpo, Balchan (Burns 80), Duka (Cunningham 74), Mendoza, Renteria (Heinemann 65).
Toronto FC -- Frei (Kocic 66), Eckersley, Harden, Iro, Morgan, de Guzman, Avila, Frings, Plata, Soolsma (Stinson 80), Johnson (Koevermans 87).
Referee: Jair Marrufo.
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Sept. 10 in Harrison, N.Y.
New York 1 Vancouver 1. Chiumiento 2 (Camilo 3) 23; Agudelo 6 (Rafael Marquez 3) 68
New York -- Coundoul, Solli, Mendes, Ream, Albright, Auvray (Agudelo 61), McCarty (Rodgers 81), Marquez, Lindpere, Richards, Henry.
Vancouver -- Cannon, Thorrington (Leathers 78), DeMerit, Rochat, Harvey (Tan 89), Salinas, Camilo, Koffie, Vagenas, Hassli, Chiumiento (Jarju 57).
Red Card: New York: Solli 46+.
Referee: Terry Vaughn.
Att.: 19,684.
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Sept. 10 in Chester, Pa.
Philadelphia 0, Portland 0
Philadelphia -- MacMath, Williams, Califf, Valdes, M.Farfan, Le Toux, Adu (McInerney 63), Carroll, Torres (Mapp 56), Paunovic (Nakazawa 77), Mwanga.
Portland -- Perkins, Palmer, Brunner, Horst, Chabala, Zizzo (Nagbe 81), Jewsbury, Chara, Alhassan (Wallace 72), Cooper, Perlaza (Dike 60).
Referee: Chris Penso.
Att.: 18,504.
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Sept. 10 in Seattle
Seattle 1 Real Salt Lake 2. Goals: Montero 7 (Rosales 10) 47+; own goal (Keller) 13, Saborio 8 (unassisted) 56.
Seattle -- Keller, Riley, Parke, Hurtado, Wahl, Rosales, Alonso, Friberg (Carrasco 31), Fernandez (Neagle 65),  Fucito (Noonan 73), Montero.
Real Salt Lake -- Rimando, Russell, Olave, Borchers, Beltran, Beckerman, Johnson, Williams, Gil (Schuler 46), Espindola (Paulo Jr. 79), Saborio (Grabavoy 68).
Red Cards: Seattle -- Hurtado 39; RSL -- Beltran 35.
Referee: Mark Kadlecik.
Att.: 35,940.
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Sept. 10 in Kansas City, Kan.
Sporting Kansas City 3 Houston 0. Goals: Bunbury 6 (Zusi 5) 9, Bunbury 7 (Julio Cesar 1) 73, Sapong 4 (Kamara 3, Zusi 6) 79
Houston -- Hall, Freeman, Hainault, Taylor, Ashe, Clark (Weaver 67), Moffat, Cameron, Davis (Camargo 81), Ching (Watson 46), Costly.
Sporting KC -- Nielsen, Myers (Harrington 78), Besler, Julio Cesar, Sinovic, Sapong, Jeferson (Arnaud 57), Espinoza, Zusi, Bravo, Bunbury (Kamara 74).
Red Card: Houston: Costly 64.
Referee: Mark Geiger.
Att.: 14,791.
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Sept. 9 in Carson, Calif.
Los Angeles 1 Colorado 0. Goal: Donovan 12 (Sean Franklin 3, Chad Barrett 4) 36.
Los Angeles -- Ricketts, Jordan, DeLaGarza, Gonzalez, Dunivant, Franklin, Beckham, Juninho (Stephens 74), Donovan, Barrett (Keane 60), Cardozo (Magee 67).
Colorado -- Pickens, Kimura (Cummings 69), Wynne, Marshall, Earls, Mullan, Larentowicz, Mastroeni, Thompson, Folan, Kandji (Nyassi 39).
Referee: Kevin Stott.
Att.: 20,068.
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Sept. 7 in Chester, Pa.
Philadelphia 4 New England 4. Goals: Torres 3 (Williams 3) 28, Adu 1 (Mwanga 4) 54, Le Toux 5 (pen.) 79, Le Toux 6 (Paunovic 2) 92+; Soares 1 (Tierney 3) 9, Lekic 5 (pen.) 21, Zerka 1 (Tierney 4) 25, Feilhaber 3 (Lekic 1) 33.
Philadelphia -- MacMath, Williams, Califf, Valdes, G.Farfan (Mwanga 46), Adu, Carroll, Miglioranzi (M.Farfan 46), Torres (Mapp 72), Le Toux, Paunovic.
New England -- Reis, Alston, Cochrane (Coria 74), Soares, Barnes, Zerka (Guy 64), Feilhaber, Joseph, Tierney, Caraglio, Lekic (Phelan 58).
Referee: Jorge Gonzalez.
Att.: 16,148.

STANDINGS:
Eastern Conference
PTS (GP) TEAM W-L-T +/1
40 (28) Sporting KC 10-8-10 43/36
40 (27) Columbus 11-9-7 33/34
36 (27) Philadelphia 9-7-11 35/30
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35 (28) Houston 8-9-11 34/36
34 (25) D.C. United 8-7-10 37/35
33 (27) New York 6-6-15 42/38
27 (27) Chicago 4-8-15 30/35
27 (28) New England 5-11-12 32/43
27 (29) Toronto FC 5-12-12 30/51

Western Conference
PTS (GP) TEAM W-L-T +/-
55 (28) Los Angeles 15-3-10 40/22
48 (28) Seattle 13-6-9 43/31
46 (28) FC Dallas 13-8-7 36/32
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45 (26) Real Salt Lake 13-7-6 37/22
41 (29) Colorado 10-8-11 39/27
33 (27) Portland 9-12-6 33/41
31 (28) Chivas USA 7-11-10 32/33
29 (26) San Jose 6-10-11 29/35
22 (27) Vancouver 4-14-10 28/43

Wildcard Race (top 4 qualify)
PTS (GP) TEAM W-L-T +/-
45 (26) Real Salt Lake 13-7-6 37/22
41 (29) Colorado 10-8-11 39/27
35 (28) Houston 8-9-11 34/36
34 (25) D.C. United 8-7-10 37/35
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33 (27) New York 6-6-15 42/38
33 (27) Portland 9-12-6 33/41
31 (28) Chivas USA 7-11-10 32/33
29 (26) San Jose 6-10-11 29/35
27 (27) Chicago 4-8-15 30/35
27 (28) New England 5-11-12 32/43
27 (29) Toronto FC 5-12-12 30/51
22 (27) Vancouver 4-14-10 28/43