PORTLAND – The Seattle Sounders weathered the storm after a disastrous first half in their Sunday afternoon road matchup with the Portland Timbers at Providence Park, but a pair of second-half tallies from Andreas Ivanschitz and Jordan Morris ultimately weren’t enough to save the Sounders from a 4-2 defeat at the hands of their Cascadia Cup rivals.
Portland jumped all over Seattle in the opening 45 minutes, taking a resounding 4-0 lead off goals from Vytautas Andriuskevicius, Fanendo Adi, Lucas Melano and Steven Taylor.
Morris and Ivanschitz would give the Sounders a momentary gasp of hope with their back-to-back tallies after second-half kickoff, but Seattle were unable to complete what would have been a historic second-half comeback.