The Dynamo locked up home-field advantage in the first round of the Western Conference playoffs with an end-to-end 3-3 tie in the regular season finale. Craig Waibel scored twice, and Paul Dalglish scored for the second straight game, but Colorado rallied to force the tie.
Colorado Rapids (11-13-8) vs. Houston Dynamo (11-8-13)
October 14, 2006 -- Robertson Stadium, Houston TX
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Craig Waibel 4 (Alejandro Moreno 5, Brad Davis 10) 2
COL -- Thiago Martins 2 (Nicolas Hernandez 6, Terry Cooke 11) 21
HOU -- Paul Dalglish 2 (Alejandro Moreno 6) 43
COL -- Thiago Martins 3 (Terry Cooke 12) 55
HOU -- Craig Waibel 5 (Brad Davis 11) 73
COL -- Jacob Peterson 4 (Jovan Kirovski 2) 88
Colorado Rapids -- Joe Cannon, Matt Crawford (Hunter Freeman 52), Dan Gargan, Aitor Karanka (Jovan Kirovski 78), Pablo Mastroeni, Kyle Beckerman, Terry Cooke, Nicolas Hernandez, Alain Nkong (Daniel Wasson 57), Jacob Peterson, Thiago Martins.
Substitutes Not Used: Bouna Coundoul, Colin Clark, Fabrice Noel, Chris Wingert.
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Wade Barrett, Eddie Robinson, Adrian Serioux, Craig Waibel, Ricardo Clark, Brad Davis, Dwayne De Rosario, Paul Dalglish (Chris Wondolowski 84), Alejandro Moreno, Brian Mullan.
Substitutes Not Used: Zach Wells, Brian Ching, Ryan Cochrane, Kevin Goldthwaite, Kelly Gray, Stuart Holden.
Misconduct Summary:
gameSumLabel">Referee: Jair Marrufo
gameSumLabel">Referee's Assistants: Bill Dittmar; Corey Rockwell
gameSumLabel">4th official: Richard Heron
gameSumLabel">Attendance: 17,191
Weather: Cloudy-and-75 degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial
