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Major League Soccer Hendrickson continues to provide heroics for Galaxy which edges by Kansas City 2-1 in OT.KANSAS CITY, Mo. (Wednesday, August 15, 2001) -- Ezra Hendrickson is a defender by trade, but tonight he again scored a big goal for the Los Angeles Galaxy. Four days after his late tally sent the Galaxy past D.C. United 1-0, Hendrickson found net six minutes into sudden death to give L.A. a 2-1 Major League Soccer decision over the Kansas City Wizards before 7,893 at Arrowhead Stadium. Hendrickson has five goals this season, each proving to be a game-winner. "It's become a habit now and if it's a habit, then I'm going to keep it that way," he said. "The guys know that if we need a big goal they can look to me to get it and I'll deliver every time for them." In the first minute of a second five-minute overtime period, Sasha Victorine carried forward for the Galaxy, touching it to Hendrickson at the edge of the box. Perfectly timing a fortunate bounce, Hendrickson drilled his volley off the underside of the crossbar and into the corner for the 2-1 final. Los Angeles (11-6-5, 38), which moved to within one point of the San Jose Earthquakes (11-5-6) for the Western Division lead, jumped ahead 1-0 on a Danny Califf header in the 12th minute. Striker Luis Hernandez attempted to send a cross into the Wizards' penalty area, but defender Brandon Prideaux played the ball with his hands on the flank. From the ensuing free kick, midfielder Simon Elliott drove hard cross to the far side where Califf caught Matt McKeon in an awkward position, slipping around the imposing defensive midfielder to nod the ball home. "It's awesome," said Califf of his second goal of the season. "As a defender you don't get many of those chances, so it's pretty awesome when you can take advantage of it." Goalkeeper Kevin Hartman, who recently regained the Galaxy’s starting goalkeeper position after a season-long battle with Matt Reis, proved to be a major factor in keeping Kansas City off the board. He slid out to deflect a point-blank shot by Roy Lassiter in the 13th minute of play and successfully challenged Gary Glasgow on a breakaway just three minutes later. Still, Kansas City (9-11-3) pulled even at 1-1 when Onandi Lowe, after coming in for Francisco Gomez, nailed a thundering free kick in the 57th minute. The Wizards were awarded the restart over 30 yards from goal when Galaxy playmaker Mauricio Cienfuegos and Wizards defender Kerry Zavagnin became tangled while battling for the ball. Lowe’s blistering shot that cleared the defensive wall and rattled in bottom the crossbar. "I saw the goalie (Kevin Hartman) cheating. He was leaning one way," Lowe said. "I told Matt McKeon that I felt good about it and I wanted to take the shot. I bent the shot over the wall and it went right where I hoped, in the back of the net." K.C. keeper Tony Meola did his part to keep the Wizards even after that, forcing Cobi Jones wide on a one-on-one break after he slipped between defenders Prideaux and Peter Vermes. "I thought our team battled and from the standpoint of character and enthusiasm," Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid said. "You could tell from inside the locker room that this win was important tonight because it was one of those defining moments in a season where you say this is a place where we came together, remember when we won this one."
Los Angeles 2, Kansas City 1 (2OT)
Lineups: Kansas City: Tony Meola, Mike Burns, Nick Garcia, Peter Vermes, Brandon Prideaux, Chris Klein (Chris Brown 96), Kerry Zavagnin, Matt McKeon, Francisco Gomez (Onandi Lowe 46), Gary Glasgow, Roy Lassiter. Los Angeles - Kevin Hartman, Danny Califf, Greg Vanney, Ezra Hendrickson, Paul Caligiuri, Simon Elliott, Mauricio Cienfuegos (Marvin Quijano 62), Peter Vagenas, Cobi Jones, Luis Hernandez, Sasha Victorine.
Scoring:
Total shots: Kansas City 14 (Klein 4), Los Angeles 15 (Jones 3, Victorine 3).
Shots on goal: Kansas City 7 (Klein 3), Los Angeles 5 (five players with 1).
Saves: Kansas City - Meola 3; Los Angeles - Hartman 6.
Fouls: Kansas City 14 (Zavagnin 4), Los Angeles 23 (four players with 4).
Offside; Kansas City 2, Los Angeles 5.
Corner kicks: Kansas City 5. Los Angeles 7.
Yellow card cautions: Kansas City - Lassiter 76, Garcia 82; Los Angeles - Cienfuegos 56, Hendrickson 63, Hernandez 80.
Referee: Peter Kokolski.
Assistant referees: Craig Lowry, George Gansner.
Attendance: 7,893 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.
Weather: Cloudy, windy, overcast, 76 degrees.
Columbus 3, Dallas 0 COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Midfielder John Wilmar Perez scored one goal and assisted the other two to help the Columbus Crew run its unbeaten streak to eight matches with a 3-0 victory over the Dallas Burn before 19,008 at Crew Stadium. Columbus (10-5-6, 36 points) is 9-2-4 since Greg Andrulis replaced Tom Fitzgerald as head coach on May 17. With a victory Sunday against the MetroStars combined with a Colorado Rapids loss, the Crew would clinch a spot in the playoffs The Crew took control early of the game and forward Jeff Cunningham blasted a 10th minute shot which traveled just over the crossbar. Eight minutes later, the Crew took a 1-0 lead after Perez sent a corner kick into the penalty area and midfielder Brian Maisonneuve made a long run into the box to flick it into the top right corner beyond the reach of Burn goalkeeper Matt Jordan for his fifth goal. "We worked on that set piece yesterday," Maisonneuve said. "(Crew defender) Mike Lapper said the play would never work, but I got a little lucky and I'll take it." The Crew would come close to scoring again in the 36th minute when Mike Duhaney sent a centering pass from the left side which forward Dante Washington, a few yards in front of the goal line, knocked wide. The Burn (8-10-4) finished the half strong, ably switching the point of attack with the Crew standing back on defense. A minute before intermission, Colombian midfielder Oscar Pareja launched a looping drive from the top right corner of the box, but his shot bounced about a foot wide of the far left post. Although Presthus was not threatened often in the first half, the Burn started strong after the break and forced the him into two early saves. In the 53rd minute, Presthus parried a 30-yard Jason Kreis shot wide of the goal. Five minutes later, a back pass into traffic by Cunningham went straight into the path of forward Ariel Graziani whose shot from 15 yards out was rejected by a diving Presthus. In the 75th minutes, the Crew attacked three-on-three breakaway. Cunningham fed a through ball to Perez on the right side of the box. Perez held the ball, drew a defender and then chipped a perfect ball into the left side of the box to a wide-open Washington who deposited an eight-yard header his seventh goal and a 2-0 advantage. One minute into stoppage time, Perez collected a loose ball at the top of the arc. After two touches, he beat Jordan with a 12-yard shot into the right side of the net. Perez leads the Crew with eight goals, 12 assists ans 28 points.
Columbus 3, Dallas 0
Lineups: Columbus - Tom Presthus, Mike Lapper, Tenywa Bonseu, Duncan Oughton, John Harkes, Brian Maisonneuve, Robert Warzycha (Ansil Elcock 78), John Wilmar Perez, Mike Duhaney, Dante Washington (Kevin Adams 89), Jeff Cunningham (Edson Buddle 77). Dallas - Matt Jordan, Richard Farrer, Jorge Rodriguez, Ryan Suarez (Edward Johnson 73), Paul Broome, Chad Deering (Aleksey Korol 86), Oscar Pareja, Joselito Vaca, Antonio Martinez, Ariel Graziani, Jason Kreis.
Scoring:
Total shots: Columbus 12 (Cunningham 5), Dallas 8 (Graziani 2, Pareja 2, Kreis 2).
Shots on goal: Columbus 7 (Maisonneuve 2), Dallas 4 (Graziani 2).
Saves: Columbus - Presthus 4; Dallas - Jordan 4.
Fouls: Columbus 6 (Duhaney 2), Dallas 13 (Broome 3).
Offside: Columbus 1, Dallas 0.
Corner kicks: Columbus 5, Dallas 9.
Yellow card cautions: Columbus - Duhaney 54; Dallas - Martinez 83.
Referee: Kevin Stott.
Assistant referees: Steve Taylor, John Konstantinidis.
Attendance: 19,008 at Columbus (Ohio) Crew Stadium.
Weather: Partly cloudy, 78 degrees.
Miami 2, Chicago 1 CHICAGO -- Forward Diego Serna netted the game-winning goal late in the first half after assisting on another tally for the Miami Fusion which dispatched the Chicago Fire 2-1 in a battle before the two teams with the best records in MLS before 14,737 at Soldier Field. Serna, the league’s leading goal sorer, however, was ejected in the 82nd minute with his second yellow card in 11 minutes, leaving him suspended for the Fusion’s Saturday home match with the Dallas Burn. Miami triumphed despite taking only five shots and put three on frame. The Fusion (14-4-5, 47 points) took the lead 2-1 the 38th minute on a smooth, crisp attack started when Preki fed Chris Henderson with a perfect through ball into the left side of the box. The winger chipped a centering ball which barely eluded the head of defender Carlos Bocanegra and went behind him to Serna for a six-yard header for his 14th goal. With 15 assists, Serna set a club record with 43 points. Mimai went ahead 1-0 in the 15th minute. Henderson fed forward Alex Pineda Chacon in the right side of the box and the Honduran international slotted a diagonal ball past goalkeeper Zach Thornton and into the left corner of the goal for his 12th tally of the season. The Fire (12-6-4) tied matters at 1-1 at in the 32nd minute. Midfielder Peter Nowak sent a free kick into the box which bypassed a group of players in the center of the area. Dema Kovalenko, on the far left post, was able to head the ball on a bounce from six yards out for his seventh goal. The Fusion, undefeated when leading at the half this season, absorbed the brunt of the Fire's pressure after the break, while still posing a danger on counterattacks. In the 67th minute All-Star goalkeeper Nick Rimando made a miraculous stop on a favorable opportunity which fell on the feet of Fire forward Ante Razov. Second half substitute Evan Whitfield combined on a give-and-go with Kovalenko into the right side of the box which Whitfield centered. A charging Razov poked the ball toward goal four yards from the goal line, but Rimando parried the ball out of play with a diving save. In the 77th minute, the Fire nearly capitalized on a breakaway of its own with Razov and Nowak pushing forward. Razov sent a cross toward the right post which Nowak tried to redirect from close range. Rimando’s challenge forced Nowak to shoot wide. Serna, who committed eight of Miami’s 24 fouls, received his second yellow card after charging DaMarcus Beasley from behind, a retaliation after Beasley had tackled the ball away from the Colombian.
Miami 2, Chicago 1
Lineups: Chicago - Zach Thornton, Jim Curtin, Carlos Bocanegra, C.J. Brown (Jamar Beasley 85), Jesse Marsch (Evan Whitfield 59), Peter Nowak, Chris Armas, DaMarcus Beasley, Dema Kovalenko, Hristo Stoitchkov (Eric Wynalda 70), Ante Razov. Miami - Nick Rimando, Carlos Llamosa, Pablo Mastroeni, Tyrone Marshall, Lazo Alavanja (Ivan McKinley 67), Jeff Bilyk, Chris Henderson, Jim Rooney, Alex Pineda Chacon (Greg Simmonds 92+), Diego Serna, Preki.
Scoring:
Total shots: Chicago 13 (Stoitchkov 4), Miami 5 (five players with 1).
Shots on goal: Chicago 5 (Stoitchkov 2), Miami 3 (Serna 1, Pineda Chacon 1, Preki 1).
Saves: Chicago - Thornton 1; Miami - Rimando 4.
Fouls: Chicago 16 (Brown 5), Miami 24 (Serna 8).
Offside: Chicago 5, Miami 1.
Corner kicks: Chicago 8, Miami 2.
Yellow card cautions: Chicago - Brown 61, Stoitchkov 62, Kovalenko 83, Thornton 84.
Miami - Henderson 28, Llamosa 34, Serna 71, Preki 73.
Red card ejection: Miami - Serna (second yellow card) 82.
Referee: Gus St. Silva.
Assistant referees: Francisco Sanchez, Steven Davidson.
Attendance: 14,737.
Weather: Cloudy, 75 degrees.
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