TT’s Glen nets first MLS goal for Crew

Glen scored from the penalty spot midway in the second half to break a goal drought for Columbus, who are second from the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings.

His effort was the first goal for the Crew in three league games and the result extended the Rapids’ winless streak to five matches. The penalty was awarded in the 67th minute when Ritchie Kotschau took down Mario Rodriguez in the box following a darting run by the Guatemalan international.

Glen, 24, easily finished the penalty kick for the Crew’s first goal in exactly five hours of play. Columbus also had missed their last three penalty kicks.

The struggling Rapids, lying second from bottom in the Western Conference, had Jamaicans Jeff Cunningham and Wolde Harris in their line-up for the entire 90 minutes.

Glen, who started the season at FC Dallas before transferring to Columbus, played last year with the MetroStars in an MLS debut season in which he scored six goals.

In Missouri, the Grenada international Shalrie Joseph helped push the high riding New England Revolution to a 2-0 victory over the Kansas City Wizards that kept the league’s only unbeaten record going.

Joseph, playing with a fractured nose he suffered two Thursdays ago in training, triggered the go-ahead goal for the visiting Revs in the eighth minute.

Making space for himself on the left after a quickly taken free-kick, Joseph whipped a firm cross inside that deflected off Sasha Victorine’s chest past Wizards goalkeeper Bo Oshoniyi.

The Revs, now on an 11-game unbeaten streak, could have gone further ahead eight minutes from half time but Oshoniyi denied Khano Smith, when the Bermuda international had surged past a pair of Wizards defenders, but had his shot smothered by the goalkeeper.

Joseph also figured in the second goal, playing a perfectly weighted pass for an onrushing Pat Noonan — at the top of the box — to score on 49 minutes.

Trinidad and Tobago’s Avery John, coming off international duties, was on the bench for the Revs, while Kansas City had Jamaican defender Shavar Thomas in their line-up.

And in Saturday’s third game, where Jamaica international teammates Tyrone Marshall and Andy Williams were opposing each other, Marshall’s LA Galaxy beat Real Salt Lake (RSL) 1-0 on a Landon Donovan goal in the 52nd minute.

Williams was the only Caribbean player on the playing roster RSL, after Marlon Rojas and Leslie Fitzpatrick travelled in the past week for two World Cup qualifiers for Trinidad and Tobago.

Yesterday’s matches were the MetroStars against DC United, Western Conference front-runners FC Dallas facing Chicago Fire, and Chivas-USA, including Vincentian Ezra Hendrickson, playing the San Jose Earthquakes.