Colorado Rapids, Sporting KC tie 1-1 in West showdown

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Colorado’s Jonathan Lewis and Sporting Kansas City’s Jonny Russell scored first-half goals successful a 1-1 necktie Saturday nighttime successful a showdown betwixt 2 of the apical teams successful the Western Conference.

Lewis scored successful the 17th infinitesimal for Colorado (11-4-5) aft a defender blocked his archetypal changeable successful the box. Kansas City (11-4-7) tied it erstwhile Russell bent successful a escaped footwear from conscionable supra the ellipse successful the 41st minute.

In the 88th infinitesimal a sliding Russell got his ft connected the shot but defender Austin Trusty cleared if disconnected the line, depriving Sporting KC a accidental to determination into a first-place necktie with Seattle.

In stoppage time, Cole Bassett deed the transverse barroom from choky quarters, which would person allowed the third-place Rapids to leapfrog Kansas City.