Colorado Rapids 2 (2-11-5,\u00a012\u00a0pts., 14th West) will face\u00a0Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0(11-3-2,\u00a037\u00a0pts.,\u00a02nd\u00a0West) on Saturday, July 18. Kickoff at\u00a0SaberCats Stadium\u00a0is set for\u00a05:00 p.m. MT with coverage available on OneFootball.com and MLSNEXTPro.com.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Colorado\u2019s last match, after fending off the visitors’ opening push, Rapids 2 flipped the momentum\u00a0by\u00a0pressing forward in pursuit of the decisive moment.\u00a0Though the match would remain scoreless for\u00a0almost the\u00a0full\u00a090 minutes, Colorado would have the\u00a0last word.\u00a0In the final minute of regulation, James Cameron made the most of a second-chance opportunity. Reacting first to a rebound off the North Texas SC goalkeeper, Cameron fired home\u00a0the go-ahead\u00a0goal.\u00a0Adding to his five career goals, this sixth marked Cameron\u2019s first of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anchoring Rapids 2’s defensive effort was another standout performance from goalkeeper Zack Campagnolo. The shot-stopper added six saves to his career total, repeatedly\u00a0coming up with\u00a0timely\u00a0interventions to preserve Colorado’s shutout.\u00a0Campagnolo\u2019s\u00a0performance secured the 11th victory and fifth clean sheet of his Rapids 2 career, moving him into sole possession of second place on the club’s all-time clean sheet list.\u00a0Etching\u00a0his name further into the record books, Campagnolo\u00a0tied\u00a0Adam Beaudry for the most goalkeeper appearances in Rapids 2 history with 33.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Rapids Academy pipeline was on display once again Saturday night\u00a0as Rapids 2 welcomed back familiar faces while celebrating the arrival of its newest debutant.\u00a0Edgar Heredia\u00a0took the pitch for the first time\u00a0in\u00a0his professional and Rapids 2\u00a0career,\u00a0joining four other Academy players on the field. Heredia\u2019s appearance also\u00a0made\u00a0him the\u00a011th Academy player to\u00a0feature\u00a0for Rapids 2 this season.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Rapids 2\u2019s\u00a0next\u00a0match\u00a0presents another opportunity\u00a0to continue their climb\u00a0as they take on Houston Dynamo 2 for the third and final time in regular season action. Houston\u00a0will host Colorado after recording their seventh win on home turf following last weekend\u2019s matchup against St. Louis CITY2.\u00a0Despite a late push from St. Louis with a goal in the 84th minute, Houston Dynamo 2 secured a 2-1 victory.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
After dropping the first two matches to Houston this season, Colorado\u00a0look\u00a0to\u00a0end the season series on a high note.\u00a0When these two sides met in May, Rapids 2 faced an uphill climb after falling behind by three goals while playing a man down following a red card. Alex Harris answered just one minute after Houston’s third goal to spoil the visitors’ shutout bid, but Colorado’s late push\u00a0ultimately wasn’t\u00a0enough as the match\u00a0ended\u00a03-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Colorado Rapids 2 (2-11-5,\u00a012\u00a0pts., 14th West) will face\u00a0Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0(11-3-2,\u00a037\u00a0pts.,\u00a02nd\u00a0West) on Saturday, July 18. Kickoff at\u00a0SaberCats Stadium\u00a0is set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74463,56,58,57,133290],"class_list":["post-377067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-colorado-rapids-2","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houvscol-07-18-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377067","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=377067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}