D2 ROUNDUP FC Dallas ties Colorado to preserve undefeated streak
Dallas hasn’t lost since May 20; Rapids haven’t won since June 5
Associated Press
FC Dallas remained unbeaten for the eighth straight game and escaped with a 1-1 tie against the Colorado Rapids on Saturday in Commerce City, Colo. “We applied pressure and any time you do that you will find players making mistakes,” FC Dallas Coach Schellas Hyndman said. “Everybody can be a good player when there’s no pressure. I could still be playing today if there is no pressure on me.”
Colorado defender Julien Bau-
det put the ball into his own net in the 22nd minute to keep FC Dallas unbeaten, 4-0-4 since a losing to Los Angeles on May 20. “You go after a ball like that and it goes in,” Baudet said. “I had position, slid back over and it hit my foot and went in.” FC Dallas maintained its three- point lead over the Rapids for third place in the Western Con- ference. Mehdi Ballouchy scored a goal on a penalty kick for Colorado (6- 5-6), which remained winless for the seventh consecutive game. The Rapids are 0-2-5 and haven’t won since June 5. “I thought we had gotten over all the voodoo,” Colorado Coach Gary Smith said. “Otherwise, we
had excellent chances, but didn’t have enough finishes.” The Rapids played without leading scorer, Conor Casey (head laceration). Casey has sev- en of the team’s 19 goals. Dallas scored first when Jair Benitez broke free along the side- line, sent a pass toward the front of the net where Baudet put it into the net to make it 1-0. The Rapids didn’t have a scor- ing chance until the 26th minute when they were awarded a penal- ty kick after Atiba Harris was called for a hand ball in the scor- ing box. Ballouchy easily beat Dallas goalkeeper Kevin Hart- man to tie the score at 1. “I picked a good spot and got
the goal,” Ballouchy said. Harris wouldn’t comment on
the foul. Hyndman offered his take on the play. “Atiba was going for the ball and for some reason he put his hand up to block the sun,” Hynd- man said. “The ball came down and knocked right into the hand.” Hartman denied Colorado a
go-ahead goal in the 43rd minute. He swatted away a free kick by Colin Clark. Ugo Ihemelu missed a wide- open net in the 45th minute. Neither team had a scoring chance in the second half until David Ferreira’s shot from a tough angle in the 58th minute. Rapids goalkeeper Matt Pickens caught the soft kick with both hands. Pickens made a more difficult save on Ferreira in the 62nd min-
ute. He swatted away a low drive from the slot. Drew Moor’s header sailed over the crossbar in the 78th min- ute. Moor saved a goal, blocking Jeff Cunningham’s shot just out- side the crease in the 82nd min- ute. Ferreira just missed the right post in the 86th minute. Harris said the ties, six of the nine, do not bother him. “The main thing is we’ve only lost once on the road,” he said. “We have been focused, we’ve been playing as a team and that has carried over into our next game.” REVOLUTION 1, UNION 1: Mar- ko Perovic scored an unassisted goal from about 30 yards out in the 71st minute, allowing New England to salvage a 1-1 draw
A European invasion of Charm City
ON WASHINGTONPOST.COM The showdown between Inter Milan and Manchester City at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore ended to late for this edition. For more on the game, check out
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with the Philadelphia Union in Chester, Pa. Perovic’s long shot appeared to
take an awkward bounce past Union goalkeeper Chris Seitz, giv- ing him four goals on the season and extending the Revolution’s unbeaten streak to five. The Revolution (4-9-3) have been terrible on the road, going 1- 6-1, but their current winning streak has given them a lift. It in- cludes two league matches and three wins in SuperLiga action. Sebastien Le Toux scored his team-best eighth goal of the sea- son for Philadelphia (4-8-3), off a touch pass from rookie Danny Mwanga in the 25th minute. The shot sailed by goalkeeper Matt Reis and into the top right-hand corner of the net.
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Inter Milan fans cheer as the team takes the field before the preseason friendly in Baltimore.
PHOTOS BY TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST Inter Milan forward Samuel Eto’o signs autographs before the game against Manchester City. Inter Milan’s Marco Materazzi tries to get a leg up on his competition from the English Premier League. DIGEST TELEVISION AND RADIO
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TRACK AND FIELD Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis led
Britain’s golden night at the Euro- pean Championships in Barcelona with victories in the men’s 5,000 meters and women’s heptathlon. Farah ran a commanding race in
the 5,000 in 13 minutes 31.18 sec- onds to give him a distance dou- ble. He had won the 10,000. Ennis set a European record of 6,823 points to add a European ti- tle to her world heptathlon one. Ennis, holding an 18-point lead over Olympic champion Nataliya Dobrynska, finished in front of the Ukrainian in the closing 800 meters event to secure gold. Britain’s night didn’t end there
— David Greene and Rhys Wil- liams led a 1-2 finish in the 400- meter hurdles. Merlene Ottey, 50, became the oldest athlete to compete at the event when she ran in the 4x100 women’s relay. Ottey, a naturalized Slovenian of Jamaican origin, sur- passed the age record held by 47- year-old French marathon runner Nicole Brakebusch-Leveque. But she failed to get out of the heats.
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Rafael Marquez was released from the final two seasons of his contract with Barcelona, a move
that allowed the 31-year-old Mexi- can defender to join former team- mate Thierry Henry with Major League Soccer’s New York Red Bulls. The Spanish champions an- nounced the agreement with Marquez, whose contract had been scheduled to run through June 2012. Hours later, the Red Bulls scheduled a Tuesday news conference to announce the sign- ing of a star player, without saying who it was. Marquez, who also plays in cen-
tral midfield, had 13 goals in 242 matches with the Catalan club. He has 11 goals in 94 appearances for Mexico. . . .
American midfielder Clint
Dempsey played his first Premier League match for Fulham since the World Cup, entering as a 60th- minute substitute in a 1-0 exhibi- tion loss at relegated Portsmouth. ...
Arsenal Manager Arsene Wen-
ger says he does not let his team visit the United States because the sort of tour embarked upon by the likes of Manchester United and Tottenham leaves players drained
before the start of the Premier League season.
MISC. In Budapest, Red Bull driver Se- bastian Vettel has secured the pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix and will be joined by teammate Mark Webber on the front row. Vettel posted a time of 1minute 18.773 seconds in qualify- ing, 0.411 of a second ahead of Webber. Ferrari drivers Fernando Alon-
so and Felipe Massa will be on the second row Sunday, while 2009 winner Lewis Hamilton of McLaren will start fifth, followed by Nico Rosberg of Mercedes and the two Renault drivers, Vitaly Pe- trov and Robert Kubica. The 25th Formula One race at the Hunga- roring circuit is the 12th of 19 races this season. . . . The NHL’s San Jose Sharks have re-signed restricted free agent for- ward Devin Setoguchi, 23, to a one-year contract. He was tied for fourth on the team with 20 goals last season. He had 36 points in 70 games.
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