SAN DIEGO — Niko Tsakiris had a goal and two assists by halftime to spark the San Jose Earthquakes to a 3-2 victory over San Diego FC on Wednesday night, ending an eight-match winless streak.<\/p>\n
Tsakiris scored<\/a> for the third time this season to stake San Jose (11-8-5) to a 1-0 lead in the third minute. Beau Leroux and Luka Jovanovi\u0107 had assists.<\/p>\n San Diego (8-10-6) keeper CJ dos Santos had a save<\/a> on a penalty kick by Tsakiris in the 8th minute, but Tsakiris picked up an assist four minutes later on a goal by Preston Judd<\/a> \u2014 his career-high 12th \u2014 for a 2-0 advantage. Judd had 11 goals in his first 72 appearances in the league.<\/p>\n Tsakiris notched<\/a> his 10th assist this season on Ousseni Bouda’s career-best sixth netter for a three-goal lead in the 35th minute. Bouda had five goals through his first 70 matches, and Tsakiris had three assists in 61 appearances from 2022-25.<\/p>\n Anders Dreyer scored<\/a> his ninth goal \u2014 with assists from Onni Valakari and Elias Achouri \u2014 in the 42nd minute to cut it to 3-1 at halftime.<\/p>\n Angus Gunn finished with four saves for San Jose in his ninth start in the league.<\/p>\n Dos Santos saved three shots for San Diego, which is 3-3-0 in its last six outings. <\/p>\n Dos Santos was tagged with a second yellow card in the 81st minute and San Jose’s Max Floriani was shown a second yellow card in the second minute of stoppage time \u2014 leading to red card exits. <\/p>\n