MLS Preseason: Columbus and Houston win tournaments

• by Soccer America , Feb 26, 2017

The Columbus Crew won the Carolina Challenge Cup and Houston Dynamo captured the Desert Diamond Cup as MLS preseason ended. Most teams on Saturday fielded what will be close to their starting lineups for the season openers.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25
Carolina Challenge Cup:
Feb. 25 in Charleston, S.C.
Columbus Crew 1 Seattle Sounders 0.
CLB: Niko Hansen (Wil Trapp) 82
Columbus Crew -- Steffen; Afful (Maloney 73), Naess, Mensah, Raitala; Abu, Trapp, Finlay, Higuain (Abubakar 87), Meram (Hansen 73); Jahn.
Seattle Sounders -- Frei; Svensson, Marshall, Torres, Jones; Alonso (Shipp 62), Roldan, Fernandez, Lodeiro, Dempsey (Wingo 80); Bruin.

Feb. 25 in Charleston, S.C.
Charleston Battery 1 Atlanta United 2.
ATL: Yamil Asad (Mikey Ambrose) 4
CHS: Romario Williams 45
ATL: Hector Villalba (Andrew Wheeler-Omiunu) 90
Charleston Battery -- Cooper (Parales 82); Woodbine (Norton 66), Lasso (A.Thomas 60), Mueller (S.Thomas 60), Griffith (Dana 82); Marini (Higashi 60), Guerra (Anunga 60), Portillo (Arambula 66), Chang (Otoo 63); Cordoves (Garbonzo 58), Williams (Roach 66).
Atlanta United -- Reynish; Ambrose, Walkes (Parkhurst 82) Robinson, Bloom (Wheeler-Omiunu 61); Carmona (Larentowicz 82), Kratz (Miguel Almiron 84); Peterson (Villalba 86), Gressel (Harrison Heath 46), Carleton; Asad (Vazquez 46).

Desert Diamond Cup:
Feb. 25 in Tucson, Ariz.
New England Revolution 2 NY Red Bulls 0.
NE: Kelyn Rowe (Diego Fagundez) 52
NE: Lee Nguyen (Je-Vaughn Watson) 89
New England Revolution -- Cropper; Smith (Kouassi 82), Angoua (Woodberry 57), Delamea, Farrell; Caldwell, Fagundez, Rowe (Kobayashi 77), Agudelo (Bunbury 82); Nguyen, Kamara (Watson 77).
NY Red Bulls -- Diaz; Batista (Abidor 46), Schmoll (Najem 46), Ndam, Butler; Basuljevic, Muckette (Shigenobu 46), Bezecourt, Valot; Lewis (Tinari 77), Fernandez (Terci 66).

Feb. 25 in Tucson, Ariz.
New York City 1 Sporting KC 0.
NYC: David Villa (Maximiliano Moralez) 51
New York City -- Johnson, Allen, Chanot, Callens, Matarrita, Herrera, Ring, Moralez, Harrison, Wallace, Villa. Miguel Camargo and James Sands.
Sporting KC -- Melia; Zusi (Abdul-Salaam 46), Opara, Besler, Sinovic; Feilhaber (Medranda 67), Mustivar, Espinoza; Gerso Fernandes (Pasher 81), Saad, Salloi (Blessing 77).

Feb. 25 in Tucson, Ariz.
Houston Dynamo 2 Colorado Rapids 0.
HOU: Romell Quioto (Alex) 43
HOU: Romell Quioto (Alberth Elis, Boniek Garcia) 67
Houston Dynamo -- Deric; DeLaGarza, Machado, Leonardo, Beasley (Remick 66); Clark (Garcia 65), Cabezas (Alexander HT), Alex; Quioto (Sanchez 77), Elis (Wenger 76), Torres (Manotas 77).
Colorado Rapids --MacMath; Miller, Watts, Sjoberg, Burch; Azira, Cronin; Hairston, Powers, Badji; Doyle.

Rowdies Suncoast Invitational:
Feb. 25 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Chicago Fire 4 Toronto FC 1.
CHI: Juninho (Arturo Alvarez) 9
CHI: Nemanja Nikolic (penalty kick) 16
CHI: Michael de Leeuw (David Accam, Nemanja Nikolic) 39
CHI: Michael de Leeuw (unassisted) 74
TOR: Tosaint Ricketts (penalty kick) 89
Chicago Fire -- Bava, Harrington (Barson 62), Kappelhof, Meira (Campbell 75), Vincent, McCarty, Juninho, Alvarez (Goossens 62), de Leeuw (Arshakyan 75), Accam (Solignac 62), Nikolic (Mihailovic 75).
Toronto FC -- Irwin, Simonin (Brunell 67), Moor (Aubrey 46), Hagglund, Beitashour (Edwards 46), Bradley (Vazquez 46), Cooper (Cheyrou 46), Osorio (Chapman 46), Morrow (Endoh 46), Giovinco (Spencer 46), Altidore (Ricketts 46). 

Feb. 25 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
D.C. United 3 Philadelphia Union 2.
DC: Patrick Nyarko 14
DC: Jared Jeffrey 21
DC:  Patrick Mullins 24
PHL: Oguchi Onyewu 51
PHL: Marcus Epps 86
D.C. United -- Hamid; Kemp, Franklin, Birnbaum, DeLeon; Sarvas; Nyarko (Tissot 76), Jeffrey (Vincent 76), Acosta (Harkes 58), Sam (Ortiz 83); Mullins.
Philadelphia Union -- Blake; Rosenberry, Onyewu, Marquez, Fabinho; Medunjanin, Bedoya; Ilsinho, Herbers (D.Jones 62), Pontius (Epps 75); Simpson (Sapong 46)
Red Card: Philadelphia -- Bedoya 89.

Feb. 25 in St. Petersburg, Fla.
Tampa Bay Rowdies 2 Montreal Impact 1.
TB: Joe Cole 34
TB: Deshorn Brown 40
MTL: Ignacio Piatti 71
Montreal Impact -- Bush; Oyongo, Ciman, Cabrera, Camara (Duvall, 69); Piatti, Bernier (DePuy, 69), Donadel (Beland-Goyette, 46), Bernardello, Oduro (Jean-Yves Tabla, 69); Mancosu (Jackson-Hamel, 87).
Tampa Bay Rowdies -- Pickens (Fitzgerald, 69); Boden, Collins, Lowe, Porter (Chavez, 83); Fernandes (Morrell, 38), Nanchoff, Cole (Hristov, 73),Vingaard, Jones; Brown (Paterson, 58).

Friendlies:
Feb. 25 in Carson, Calif.
LA Galaxy 1 Portland Timbers 2.
POR: Adi (Diego Valeri, Daniel Guzman) 29
POR: Adi (Diego Valeri) 56
LA: Steres (Romney, Alessandrini) 81
LA Galaxy -- Rowe, Garcia, Steres, Van Damme (Smith, 45), Romney, Lletget, Jones, Pedro, Boateng (Alessandrini, 46), Lassiter, dos Santos.
Portland -- Gleeson, Powell, Olum, Ridgewell, Farfan, Guzman, Chara, Blanco (Mattocks, 63), Valeri (Barmby, 75), Nagbe (Arboleda, 80), Adi (Asprilla, 75).
Att.: 10,364.

Feb. 25 in San Jose, Calif.
San Jose Earthquakes 4 Sac Republic FC 1.
SJ: Shea Salinas (Tommy Thompson, Nick Lima) 14
SAC: Sammy Ochoa pen. 54
SJ: Simon Dawkins (Darwin Ceren) 66
SJ: Jahmir Hyka (Anibal Godoy) 79
SJ: Danny Hoesen (Andres Imperiale) 90+1.
San Jose Earthquakes -- Bingham; Francis (Sarkodie 72), Jungwirth (Imperiale 81), Bernardez (Ceren 62), Lima (Colvey 81); Salinas (Hyka 45), Godoy (Yueill 83), Alashe, Thompson (Silva 90+1); Dawkins (Cato 68), Urena (Hoesen 62).
Sac Republic FC -- Newton (Jakubek 64); Kiffe (Hord 61), da Fonte (Williams 61), Rodriguez (James 34), Moffat (Chaney 55), Hall (Gissie 61); Trickett-Smith (Kraft 45), Blackwood (Cazarez 55), Barrera (Montano 61); Caesar (Kneeshaw 45), Ochoa (Suma 55).