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Wonder goals lift FC Dallas over Fire; Rapids beat Sporting Kansas City

Mauro Diaz scored from distance and Fabian Castillo had two assists in FC Dallas' 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Saturday night.

Castillo beat a pair of defenders and sent in a perfect cross with a stunning Rabona that Maximiliano Urriti blasted in with a header in the 23rd minute.

Diaz fired a right-footer, from well outside the box, past the outstretched arms of goalkeeper Matt Lampson, off the post and into the net.

Arturo Alvarez put Chicago on the board in the first minute of stoppage time but, about a minute later, Castillo hit Mauro Rosales for the clinching goal.

Dallas, the overall MLS leader with 40 points, rebounded from a 5-0 loss at Seattle on Wednesday.

Marlon Hairston scored and Tim Howard kept his second clean in three games as the Colorado Rapids beat Sporting Kansas City 1-0 to extend their franchise-record unbeaten streak to 14 games.

Hairston, who came on for Marco Pappa in the 62nd minute, deflected a Sporting pass, then took a feed from Dillon Powers and curled a right-footer from just outside the box into the top-right corner.

Howard, playing in his third MLS game since 2003, had three saves.

Sporting has lost two in a row after a five-game unbeaten streak.

Fabian Espindola scored in the 89th minute to give D.C. United a 1-1 draw with Columbus Crew SC on Saturday night.

Espindola split three defenders to come up with a loose ball near the top of the box and slotted a low shot just beyond the fingertips of goalkeeper Steve Clark.

Columbus, winless in its last seven games, played a man down after Harrison Afful received a red card for a studs-up challenge in the in the 74th minute.

Ola Kamara put a right footer into the top-right corner of the net from the top of the six-yard box in the 63rd minute. Tony Tchani fed a straight ball from near midfield to Afful, who played a one-touch cross to Kamara. It was his ninth goal in the last eight matches.

Cyle Larin scored the equalizing goal in the 50th minute but Orlando City missed a penalty and settled for a 2-2 draw at the Vancouver Whitecaps.

Julio Baptista opened the scoring for Orlando City in the third minute, but Vancouver rallied with goals from  Nicolas Mezquida and Masato Kudo before halftime before Larin leaped to head in Kevin Molino's cross.

Baptista had a chance to put Orlando ahead with a penalty in the 59th, but his attempt went wide. Moments later at the other end, Orlando City goalkeeper Joseph Bendik made a spectacular save off Kudo's header off Mezquida's long pass.

Vancouver substituted 15-year-old Alphonso Davies in the 77th minute for his MLS debut. Davies, the youngest active player in the league, took a right-footed shot minutes later that went wide left.

Simon Dawkins scored in the 70th minute and the San Jose Earthquakes, playing down two men most of the second half, beat Toronto FC 2-1 to end a seven-game winless streak.

Quincy Amarikwa put the Earthquakes up 1-0 in the 30th minute but, 12 minutes later, Anibal Godoy received a red card, leaving San Jose a man down.

Justin Morrow capitalized within two minutes, tapping a left-footer into a wide-open net to tie it.

Dawkins fired a right-footer from just outside the top of the box to put the Earthquakes up 2-1.

Alberto Quintero drew a red card in the 53rd minute and San Jose played the final 40-plus minutes two men down but held on.

Bobby Shuttleworth made two critical saves and the New England Revolution managed a goalless draw with Real Salt Lake.

Shuttleworth deflected a point-blank, one-timer by Kyle Beckerman in the 14th minute, and poked away Yura Movsisyan's breakaway shot with his leg in the 71st. It was Shuttleworth's fourth shutout this season.

Real Salt Lake had a handful of chances but came up empty each time. Joao Plata's shot, off a back-heel pass from Juan Manuel Martinez, in the fifth minute sailed high; Martinez's chipped over Shuttleworth, but missed wide left in the 32nd; and Beckerman pulled a shot from the top off the box wide left in the 45th.

Kei Kamara had a goal for New England nullified in the 50th minute. He put away a cross from Kelyn Rowe but, seconds earlier, Kamara's foot clipped the heel of, and tripped, Aaron Maund, negating the goal.

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