CARSON, Calif. — Jesse Marsch scored in the 60th minute to help Chivas USAbeat the New England Revolution 2-0 Saturday night.

Maykel Galindo scored in the 88th minute to help Chivas (6-4-2) overcome thesending off of captain Claudio Suarez. He received a red card for elbowing NewEngland forward Adam Cristman in the 81st minute.

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HOUSTON — Penny Taylor scored 26 points to lead the Phoenix Mercury to a92-75 win over the Houston Comets on Saturday night.

Kelly Mazzante added 15 points as the Mercury snapped Houston’s four-gamehome winning streak and did so without star guard Diana Taurasi, who completedher two-game league suspension on Saturday.

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ST. LOUIS — The St. Louis Blues signed center Keith Tkachuk to a two-yearcontract on Saturday, one day before he would have become an unrestricted freeagent.

The Canadian Press reported that the deal was for $8 million. The Bluestraded the four-time All-Star to Atlanta in February but reacquired rights tohim earlier this week. The trade allowed St. Louis to deal exclusively withTkachuk until Sunday.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Travis Kvapil finally passed a spinning Brad Keselowski with nine laps to go and pulled away on the restart to capture the Craftsman Truck Series O’Reilly 200 on Saturday night, his second win in three weeks.

Kvapil, who was the O’Reilly champion in 2002, had stalked Keselowski for more than a half dozen laps before taking the lead on 191 when he got into the bumper of Keselowski, who was replacing suspended driver Ted Musgrave. The contact coming out of Turn 4 sent Keselowski spinning toward the infield, and Kvapil swept by to take the lead.

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Kei Kamara scored his second goal of the season and theColumbus Crew beat the New York Red Bulls 1-0 Saturday night.

Kamara went above a New York defender to head home a crossing pass fromsecond-half substitute Andy Herron in the 69th minute.

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FRISCO, Texas — Emergency starter Zach Wells made three saves to help theHouston Dynamo tie FC Dallas 0-0 on Saturday.

Pat Onstad, the MLS leader in goals-against average, twisted his back duringwarmups. Onstad was to be further evaluated when the team returned to Houston.

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DETROIT — On the eve of NHL free agency, Detroit Red Wings general managerKen Holland was cautiously optimistic he would be able to agree to contractterms with star goaltender Dominik Hasek.

“I don’t think there’s a significant divide, but there’s no deal so wecontinue to go back and forth,” Holland said Saturday night. “We’ve had a lotof conversations over the last few days and hopefully we’ll talk again tonightor in the morning before free agency begins at noon.”

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Former Vanderbilt pitcher David Price won the GoldenSpikes Award on Saturday as the nation’s best amateur baseball player.

Taken first in the draft by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Price was a finalistin 2006 for the award, given out annually by USA Baseball.

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MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (TICKER) — Brad Keselowski won his first career pole as a replacement for veteran Ted Musgrave in the O’Reilly 200 at Memphis Motorsports Park on Saturday.

Keselowski, who had just two starts this season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, posting a winning pole time of 119.771 in a Toyota Tundra. He replaced Musgrave behind the wheel when the 2005 Truck Series champion was suspended for one week.

The 51-year old Musgrave was suspended, fined $10,000 and docked 50 driver points for crashing Kelly Bires into the wall on lap 74 of the Milwaukee 200 last week. It is the first time in seven years Musgrave has missed a Craftsman race.

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MONTREAL — Columbus Crew midfielder Danny Szetela scored on a 16th-minuteheader and Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Chris Seitz stopped 12 shots Saturday inthe United States’ 1-1 draw with South Korea in the Under 20 World Cup openerfor both teams.

After Szetela’s header off Sal Zizzo’s cross, the South Koreans equalized inthe 38th minute on a goal by Shin Young-rok and finished with a 13-7 advantagein shots.

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