St Louis CITY2\u00a0extended their unbeaten streak to four matches with a 2-0 shutout win\u00a0away at\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes II on Sunday night.\u00a0Nighte Pickering scored\u00a0the first of his two goals\u00a0for the club\u00a0in the 25th minute off assists from Riley Lynch and Zach Zengue. CITY2 carried the 1-0 lead into halftime,\u00a0holding\u00a0San Jose to zero shots on goal.\u00a0Pickering found the back of the net again in the 54th minute, recording his second professional brace.\u00a0St. Louis held the 2-0 lead\u00a0through full time, earning their ninth win of the season\u00a0and\u00a0maintaining\u00a0fifth place in the Western Conference standings.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CITY2\u00a0returns home to Energizer Park next Sunday, August 23,\u00a0to face\u00a0Houston Dynamo 2 for the final time this season. Kickoff is set for 6:00 p.m. CT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nighte Pickering scored his first\u00a0two goals with CITY2.\u00a0The brace was Pickering\u2019s second of his career,\u00a0with his first occurring in the third round of the U.S. Open Cup in April 2024 against Miami United\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley Lynch recorded his eighth assist of\u00a0the year\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zach Zengue picked up his fourth assist of the season\u00a0<\/p>\n
Andrew De Gannes earned his second assist of the season\u00a0<\/p>\n
CITY2\u00a0extended their unbeaten streak to four matches. Three of those four matches have featured clean sheets, bringing the team\u2019s total to seven this year\u00a0<\/p>\n
Colin Welsh recorded his\u00a0ninth career MLS NEXT Pro clean sheet\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s win marked the first time in club history\u00a0that CITY2\u00a0has won at San Jose Earthquakes II since joining the league in 2022\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering (Riley Lynch, Zach Zengue),\u00a025th\u00a0minute \u2013\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering scored with a left footed shot from the center of the box to the central zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering (Andrew De Gannes), 54th minute \u2013\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering scored with a left footed shot from the center of the box to the upper right central zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering (Riley Lynch, Zach Zengue),\u00a025\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering\u00a0(Andrew De Gannes), 54\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Zach Zengue (caution), 57\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
SJ:\u00a0GK\u00a0Nathan Crockford;\u00a0D\u00a0Martin Mukah Kwende Jr.,\u00a0D\u00a0Alejandro\u00a0Cano\u00a0\u00a9,\u00a0D\u00a0Niklas Dossmann,\u00a0D\u00a0Jacob Heisner\u00a0(Dominic Lorenti, 70\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Edwyn Mendoza\u00a0(Jorge Torres, 85\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Noel Buck,\u00a0M\u00a0Gabriel\u00a0Bracken\u00a0Serra\u00a0(Kaedren\u00a0Spivey, 70\u2019);\u00a0F\u00a0Shane De Flores\u00a0(Julian Donnery, 46\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Jermaine Spivey\u00a0(Warren Boyce, 70\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Zachary Bohane\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Connor Lambe,\u00a0M\u00a0Rohan Rajagopal\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS:\u00a013; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a03; FOULS:\u00a06; OFFSIDES:\u00a01; CORNER KICKS:\u00a07; SAVES:\u00a01\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL: GK\u00a0Colin Welsh;\u00a0D\u00a0Owen Jorgensen,\u00a0D\u00a0Zack Lillington \u00a9,\u00a0D\u00a0Andrew De Gannes;\u00a0M\u00a0Trip Clancy\u00a0(Adeteye\u00a0Gbadehan, 84\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Patrick McDonald\u00a0(Jack Wagoner, 59\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Tyson Pearce\u00a0(Sidney Paris, 75\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Riley Lynch;\u00a0F\u00a0Zach Zengue,\u00a0F\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering\u00a0(Alex Jundt, 84\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Yu Ota\u00a0(Lorenzo Cornelius, 46\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used: GK\u00a0Nate Martinez,\u00a0D\u00a0Chris Pearson,\u00a0D\u00a0Jemone\u00a0Barclay,\u00a0D\u00a0Emiliano Chavez\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS:\u00a09; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a03; FOULS:\u00a015; OFFSIDES:\u00a01; CORNER KICKS:\u00a08; SAVES:\u00a03\u00a0<\/p>\n
Referee:\u00a0Robert Vincze\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assistant Referees:\u00a0Seth Martin, Conrado Garcia\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fourth Official:\u00a0Aaron Stein\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weather:\u00a0Cloudy, 72 degrees<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Louis CITY2\u00a0extended their unbeaten streak to four matches with a 2-0 shutout win\u00a0away at\u00a0San Jose Earthquakes II…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[136235,93,171785,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-435035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-city2","tag-featured","tag-next-pro","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435035","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=435035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}