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May
15, 2000
TAMPA, Florida, MAY 14(AP) - Mamadou Diallo had his second consecutive two-goal game as the Tampa Bay Mutiny remained undefeated at home with a 3-1 victory over the Columbus Crew on Saturday.
The Mutiny's 6-0 start at Raymond James Stadium is two behind D.C. United's MLS record of eight consecutive home victories to start the 1998 season. Dominic Kinnear scored his first goal since Aug. 29, 1998, in the 48th minute, and Carlos Valderrama had two assists for the Central Division-leading Mutiny (6-4-0).
Valderrama has 10 assists for Tampa Bay, which has outscored opponents 20-5 at home.
Robert Warzycha scored on a 74th-minute free kick for Columbus (3-6-1), which lost for the second time this season at Tampa Bay.
The Crew dropped a season-opening 5-1 decision to the Mutiny on March 18. The Crew are last in the Central, eight points behind Tampa Bay.
Revolution 3, United 1
In Washington, Imad Baba, Mauricio Ramos and Wolde Harris scored on free kicks as the New England Revolution beat the DC United.
New England (3-2-4), despite being outshot 18-5, took a 2-1 lead when Ramos bent a free kick around the right side of the United wall and past a diving Tom Presthus in the 66th minute.
DC (2-7-1), which played without its injured star Marco Etcheverry, missed a chance to tie the game in the 79th minute when Jaime Moreno was awarded a penalty kick, but the save was made by Revolution goalkeeper Jeff Causey.
Baba then finished off the United in the 82nd minute when he sent a free kick over DC's wall that Presthus got a hand on, but could not keep the ball out of the net.
The United, losers of three in a row at home, opened the scoring in the 14th minute when Moreno headed Ben Olsen's corner kick past Causey for his eighth goal.
Wizards 2, MetroStars 0
In Kansas City, Missouri, Tony Meola posted his league-leading seventh shutout as the Wizards remained unbeaten with a victory over the New York/New Jersey MetroStars.
Meola has gone 435 minutes without allowing a goal, breaking his own league record of 414 minutes. He is also MLS' career leader with 27 shutouts.
Matt McKeon had a goal and an assist for the Wizards (7-0-2), who are one victory away from matching their total for last season.
McKeon put Kansas City up 1-0 in the 49th minute with an assist from Mo Johnston, and Chris Henderson sealed the result with a goal in the 75th minute.
The MetroStars (3-6) played the last 21 minutes of the game with 10 players after defender Ramiro Corrales was ejected, receiving a second yellow card for arguing a foul call.
Danish forward Miklos Molnar, Kansas City's leading scorer with five goals, returned from a two-game absence with a sprained ankle and played all 90 minutes.
Burn 1, Galaxy 1
Dallas' Jason Kreis and Los Angeles' Paul Caligiuri scored goals as the Burn and Galaxy played to a 1-1 tie.
Los Angeles (5-0-4) remained undefeated, joining Kansas City as the only MLS teams without a loss.
Dallas (4-4) had won its last three at home against the Galaxy.
Kreis scored his fourth goal of the season in the 46th minute on a feed from Jorge Rodriguez. Caligiuri answered with his first goal of the season 10 minutes later.
Kreis' goal ended Galaxy goalkeeper Kevin Hartman's scoreless streak at 343 minutes. He had one save and faced just three shots on goal.
Burn goalkeeper Matt Jordan faced five shots on goal and had two saves.
Neither team got a shot on goal in overtime.
Dallas played without leading scorer Ariel Graziani, who was suspended for three games after receiving a major game misconduct against Tampa Bay last week.
Fusion 2, Rapids 1
In Denver, Jay Heaps and Roy Lassiter scored in the final 16 minutes as the Miami Fusion beat the Colorado Rapids 2-1 on Saturday night, Colorado's third straight loss at home.
After a scoreless first half, Colorado (4-6-0) took the lead in the 50th minute when Jason Bent's left-footed the ball off the inside of the left post and in for his first Major League Soccer goal.
The Rapids were given a man advantage five minutes later when Miami's Henry Gutierrez was red-carded, but the Fusion (3-3-4) came back for their second win against no loses under new coach Ray Hudson.
In the 74th minute, Heaps got a foot on the ball after a corner kick and took a shot that squirted under Rapids goalie Adin Brown to tie the game.
Five minutes later, Miami goalkeeper Nick Rimando cleared the ball the length of the field. Lassiter caught up with it and sent it past a sliding Brown for the winning goal.
Fire 4, Earthquakes 1
The Chicago Fire scored three goals in the first 13 minutes Saturday night and beat the San Jose Earthquakes 4-1.
Dema Kovalenko drove home a pass from Diego Gutierrez five minutes into the game, Lubos Kubick made it 2-0 in the 12th minute, and San Jose's Mauricio Wright put the ball into his own net on an errant clear attempt to end the early flurry.
Ante Razov added his eighth goal of the season five minutes before halftime as Chicago improved to 5-4-1.
San Jose (2-2-2) scored with 20 minutes left, when John Doyle and Richard Mulrooney set up Harut Karapetyan's goal.
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