{"id":506303,"date":"2026-03-01T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506303\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T00:34:11","slug":"hamzat-ojediran-lucas-herrington-score-first-mls-goals-rapids-beat-timbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506303\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamzat Ojediran, Lucas Herrington score first MLS goals, Rapids beat Timbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) \u2014 Hamzat Ojediran and Lucas Herrington each scored their first career MLS goal on Saturday to help the Colorado Rapids beat the Portland Timbers 2-0.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zach Steffen stopped three shots and had his first shutout of the season for Colorado (1-1-0). <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ojediran opened the scoring in the seventh minute, when the 22-year-old midfielder ripped a straight-away shot from 35 yards that deflected off defender Finn Surman and rolled into the net. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 18-year-old Herrington, at the back post, headed home a corner kick played in by Dante Sealy to make it 2-0 in the 53rd. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jimer Fory was shown a straight red card in the 77th minute and Portland (1-1-0) played a man down the rest of the way. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Rapids are 12-15-7 against Portland, 10-3-5 in Colorado. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">James Pantemis had eight saves for the Timbers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP soccer: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) \u2014 Hamzat Ojediran and Lucas Herrington each scored their first career MLS goal on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-506303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}