EL PASO, Texas\u00a0(March 7, 2026) \u2013 El Paso Locomotive FC showcased their attacking prowess but struggled defending set pieces in a 2-2 opening night draw against Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC on Saturday night at Southwest University Park.<\/p>\n
Rubio Rub\u00edn\u00a0made history for Los Locos with two goals in his debut while\u00a0Amando Moreno\u00a0tallied an assist. Five other Locos also made their Locomotive debuts on the evening.<\/p>\n
El Paso found themselves trailing just five minutes in after Colorado Springs converted their first corner kick, but Rub\u00edn responded in the 20th\u00a0minute by finishing off a deflection off the post. Locomotive outshot the Switchbacks eight to three in the opening 45 minutes but had only a tied match to show for it.<\/p>\n
The hosts came out firing out of the gate in the second half, however, as Moreno found Rub\u00edn right outside the six-yard box to put Los Locos up for the first time. The joy was short-lived, however, as a perfectly placed header off a long throw for the visitors tied the match in the 67th\u00a0minute. Both teams traded late chances, but neither could find the back of the net the rest of the night.<\/p>\n
GAME NOTES<\/p>\n
Rubio Rub\u00edn, Alex Mendez, Abraham Romero, Jimmy Farkarlun, Daniel Gomez\u00a0and\u00a0Diego Abitia\u00a0all made their Locomotive debuts tonight.<\/p>\n
El Paso native\u00a0Kenneth Hoban\u00a0made his first career Locomotive start tonight and played 83 minutes.<\/p>\n
Rub\u00edn is the first Locomotive player to score multiple goals in his club debut.<\/p>\n
Last season\u2019s home opener finished with the same 2-2 scoreline as tonight\u2019s match.<\/p>\n
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SCORING SUMMARY<\/p>\n
ELP \u2013 Rubio Rub\u00edn 20\u2019, 50\u2019 (Amando Moreno)<\/p>\n
COS \u2013 Khori Bennett 5\u2019 (Isaiah Foster), Foster 67\u2019 (Sam Williams)<\/p>\n
LINEUPS\u00a0<\/p>\n
ELP \u2013 (4-3-3) Abraham Romero, Ricky Ruiz, Noah Dollenmayer, Kofi Twumasi, Kenneth Hoban (Alvaro Quezada 83\u2019), Robert Coronado, Eric Calvillo-C (Daniel Gomez 84\u2019), Alex Mendez, Amando Moreno (Diego Abitia 71\u2019), Rubio Rub\u00edn (Omar Mora 84\u2019), Jimmy Farkarlun (Beto Avila 61\u2019)<\/p>\n
Subs Not Used: Sebastian Mora-Mora, Joseluis Villagomez, Nicol\u00e1s Cardona, Tony Alfaro<\/p>\n
COS \u2013 (4-3-3) Christian Herrera, Matt Mahoney-C, Patrick Burner, Talen Maples, Isaiah Foster (Duke Lacroix 86\u2019), Steven Echevarria, Sam Williams, Adrien Perez (Juan Tejada 71\u2019), Levonte Johnson (Jonas Fjeldberg 71\u2019), Yosuke Hanya, Khori Bennett<\/p>\n
Subs Not Used: Colin Shutler, Aidan Rocha, Garven Metusala, Dane Valenti<\/p>\n
MISCONDUCT SUMMARY<\/p>\n
ELP \u2013 Amando Moreno (Yellow) 53\u2019, Kenneth Hoban (Yellow) 69\u2019, Diego Abitia (Yellow) 73\u2019, Beto Avila (Yellow) 74\u2019, Eric Calvillo (Yellow) 77\u2019, Alex Mendez (Yellow) 82\u2019<\/p>\n
COS \u2013 Juan Tejada (Yellow) 79\u2019<\/p>\n
MATCH STATS: ELP | COS<\/p>\n
GOALS: 2|2
ASSISTS: 1|2
POSSESSION: 54|46
SHOTS: 13|11
SHOTS ON GOAL: 8|2
SAVES: 0|6
FOULS: 16|12
OFFSIDES: 4|0
CORNERS: 3|3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas\u00a0(March 7, 2026) \u2013 El Paso Locomotive FC showcased their attacking prowess but struggled defending set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-195451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}