PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Maximiliano Urruti and Gaston Fernandez scored to lift the Portland Timbers a 2-0 victory over the visiting Houston Dynamo on Saturday night.
The Timbers opened the scoring in the 34th minute, when Urruti headed a free kick by Jorge Villafana into the upper right corner for his third goal of the season. For Villafana, it was his third assist of the season, and his second consecutive game with an assist. That makes him the first Portland defender to earn assists in consecutive games since the team joined MLS in 2011.