HOUSTON (March\u00a08, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0secured a dominant 4-0 victory over Tacoma Defiance at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0tonight, highlighted by a brace from Dynamo Academy midfielder\u00a0Mattheo\u00a0Dimareli.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The result\u00a0marked Houston\u2019s\u00a0second\u00a0clean sheet of the season after\u00a0holding the visitors to just one shot on target from eight total attempts.\u00a0Notably,\u00a0Tacoma\u00a0failed to\u00a0register a shot in the first half, while Houston recorded eight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tonight\u2019s match\u00a0featured\u00a0two first team players in the starting lineup, including\u00a0forward\u00a0Nick\u00a0Markanich, who\u00a0made\u00a0his Dynamo 2 debut\u00a0today, and goalkeeper\u00a0Blake\u00a0Gillingham, who made\u00a0one appearance for the team last season and recorded seven saves.\u00a0Defender\u00a0Agustin\u00a0Resch, defender\u00a0Vinicius Rodrigues da\u00a0Silva\u00a0and\u00a0attacker\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161\u00a0Wiesner\u00a0also\u00a0made their\u00a0Dynamo\u00a02 debuts, while forward\u00a0Austin\u00a0Brummett\u00a0made his first start for the squad.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dynamo 2 took the lead in the 41st minute following a combination play between Brummett,\u00a0Markanich\u00a0and\u00a0Dimareli. The sequence began with\u00a0Markanich\u00a0controlling the ball\u00a0on the right flank\u00a0and dribbling towards the edge of the\u00a0box\u00a0before playing a quick one-two with Brummett.\u00a0Markanich\u00a0then found\u00a0Dimareli\u00a0inside the box, who finished with his left foot.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dimareli\u00a0then\u00a0completed his\u00a0first career\u00a0MLS NEXT Pro\u00a0brace\u00a0in first-half stoppage time when\u00a0Markanich\u00a0again found the 16-year-old inside the box for a close-range finish. The pass also marked\u00a0Markanich\u2019s\u00a0second assist of the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dos tripled their lead in the 77th\u00a0minute when midfielder\u00a0Diego\u00a0Gonzalez\u00a0delivered a free kick from the left side of the box, finding defender\u00a0Gavin\u00a0Wolff\u00a0for a header towards the bottom right corner. The play marked Wolff\u2019s first professional goal and Gonzalez\u2019s first assist of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brummett scored Houston\u2019s fourth and final goal in the 82nd\u00a0minute, finishing with a first-time strike for his first professional goal following a pass from Silva, his first professional\u00a0assist.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dynamo 2\u2019s first dangerous chance came in the\u00a023rd\u00a0minute when Brummett found\u00a0Markanich\u00a0near the box\u00a0for a right-footed strike that missed the near post by inches.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brummett almost\u00a0extended\u00a0Dos\u2019 lead in the 52nd\u00a0minute\u00a0with\u00a0a left-footed shot from the center of the box that sailed over the crossbar.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dos next host Portland Timbers2 on Sunday, March 15, with kickoff scheduled for 6:00 p.m. CT at SaberCats Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON (March\u00a08, 2026) \u2013 Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0secured a dominant 4-0 victory over Tacoma Defiance at\u00a0SaberCats\u00a0Stadium\u00a0tonight, highlighted by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[6963,56,6964,58,57],"class_list":{"0":"post-196384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-dynamo-dos","9":"tag-houston","10":"tag-houston-dynamo-2","11":"tag-houston-headlines","12":"tag-houston-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196384","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=196384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}