{"id":263493,"date":"2026-04-12T04:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263493\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T04:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:05:10","slug":"san-jose-earthquakes-stay-hot-rally-to-defeat-sporting-kansas-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263493\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose Earthquakes stay hot, rally to defeat Sporting Kansas City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best start in franchise history continued for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/competitions\/mls-regular-season\/2026\/matches\/skcvssj-04-11-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Jose Earthquakes<\/a> on Saturday night in Kansas City, Kansas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/players\/jack-skahan\/match-log\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jack Skahan<\/a> scored in the 45th minute and again in the 49th to erase an early deficit as San Jose won 3-1 over Sporting Kansas City to improve to 6-1-0 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Dave Romney finished the scoring for San Jose with a goal in the 75th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Bartlett had given Kansas City a 1-0 advantage when he scored in the 27th minute, but the good vibes didn\u2019t last for the home side as KC fell to 1-5-1 while losing to San Jose for the second time this season.<\/p>\n<p>Niko Tsakiris and Ousseni Bouda assisted on Skahan\u2019s first goal. Preston Judd and Tsakiris were credited with assists on the second.<\/p>\n<p>The goals were Skahan\u2019s first two of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Munie assisted on Romney\u2019s goal, which was his first of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Earthquakes, who have scored six goals in their two matches this season against Kansas City, stretched their winning streak to three.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose will continue MLS play on April 19 in Los Angeles against LAFC. The Earthquakes\u2019 next home match is April 22 against Austin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The best start in franchise history continued for the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night in Kansas City,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,402,181,88,1084,90,89,1083,127],"class_list":{"0":"post-263493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-bay-area","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-inside-sports","11":"tag-latest-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose","13":"tag-san-jose-earthquakes","14":"tag-san-jose-headlines","15":"tag-san-jose-news","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}