St Louis CITY2 extended their unbeaten streak to five\u00a0matches\u00a0with\u00a0a 2-2 draw against Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0before falling 3-1 in the penalty shootout.\u00a0Houston found the back of the net early in the 17th\u00a0minute and\u00a0maintained\u00a0its\u00a01-0 lead\u00a0into\u00a0halftime. Just two minutes into the second half, Houston scored again to make it 2-0. St. Louis\u00a0pulled one back through\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering with assists from Riley Lynch and Miguel Perez\u00a0in the 70th minute.\u00a0Fifteen\u00a0minutes later, Zack Lillington tied\u00a0the match at 2-2, sending it into a penalty shootout.\u00a0<\/p>\n
CITY2\u00a0will\u00a0host\u00a0North Texas SC at\u00a0Energizer Park next\u00a0Friday, August 28,\u00a0for the\u00a0teams\u2019 final meeting of the season.\u00a0Kickoff is set for\u00a07:00 p.m. CT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Nighte Pickering scored his\u00a0third goal of the season. Pickering has now scored in back-to-back matches for CITY2, registering three goals\u00a0over that span\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zack Lillington scored his second goal of the season\u00a0<\/p>\n
Riley Lynch recorded his eighth assist of the year\u00a0<\/p>\n
Miguel Perez earned his first assist of 2026\u00a0<\/p>\n
CITY2 extended their unbeaten streak to five\u00a0matches\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Austin Brummett,\u00a017th minute \u2013\u00a0Austin Brummett scored with a right footed shot from the central position outside the box\u00a0to the\u00a0bottom right corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU: Miguel Perez (own goal), 48th minute \u2013\u00a0Miguel Perez scored\u00a0an\u00a0own goal from the central position outside the box.\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering\u00a0(Riley Lynch, Miguel Perez), 70th minute \u2013\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering\u00a0scored with a left footed shot from the center of the box to the bottom left corner.\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL: Zack Lillington, 85th minute \u2013\u00a0Zack Lillington scored with a header from the center of the box to the lower left central zone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Austin Brummett, 17\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0Miguel Perez\u00a0(own goal), 48\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering\u00a0(Riley Lynch, Miguel Perez), 70\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL:\u00a0Zack Lillington, 85\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
STL: GK\u00a0Colin Welsh;\u00a0D\u00a0Owen Jorgensen,\u00a0D\u00a0Zack Lillington,\u00a0D\u00a0Tahir Reid-Brown\u00a0(Chris Pearson, 46\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Trip Clancy\u00a0(Patrick McDonald, 76\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Miguel Perez,\u00a0M\u00a0Tyson Pearce\u00a0(Jemone\u00a0Barclay, 86\u2019),\u00a0M\u00a0Riley Lynch;\u00a0F\u00a0Zach Zengue,\u00a0F\u00a0Nighte\u00a0Pickering (Yu Ota, 86\u2019),\u00a0F\u00a0Jack Wagoner \u00a9\u00a0(Lorenzo Cornelius, 61\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used: GK\u00a0Nate Martinez,\u00a0D\u00a0Emiliano Chavez,\u00a0D\u00a0Sidney Paris,\u00a0M\u00a0Alex Jundt\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS: 9; SHOTS ON GOAL: 3; FOULS: 18; OFFSIDES:\u00a04; CORNER KICKS:\u00a07; SAVES: 3\u00a0<\/p>\n
HOU:\u00a0GK\u00a0Logan Erb;\u00a0D\u00a0Reese Miller\u00a0(Vitor Andre, 61\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Vinicius Silva\u00a0(Noah Betancourt, 72\u2019),\u00a0D\u00a0Chibuike Ukaegbu,\u00a0D\u00a0Daniel Barrett;\u00a0M\u00a0Gustavo Dohmann \u00a9,\u00a0M\u00a0Matthew Arana\u00a0(D\u2019Alessandro Herrera, 85\u2019);\u00a0M\u00a0Jahmani Bell,\u00a0M\u00a0Samir Mohammad,\u00a0M\u00a0Mattheo Dimareli\u00a0(Alan Martins, 72\u2019);\u00a0F\u00a0Austin Brumett\u00a0(Arthur Sousa, 60\u2019)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Substitutes Not Used:\u00a0GK\u00a0Roman Kerimov,\u00a0M\u00a0Tristan Cottle,\u00a0F\u00a0Mamadi Jiana,\u00a0F\u00a0Myles Gardner\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOTAL SHOTS: 12; SHOTS ON GOAL:\u00a04; FOULS:\u00a011; OFFSIDES:\u00a00; CORNER KICKS:\u00a04; SAVES: 1\u00a0<\/p>\n
Assistant Referees:\u00a0Tyler Samburgh, Brendan Sweetman\u00a0<\/p>\n
Fourth Official:\u00a0Gustavo\u00a0Turmero\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Louis CITY2 extended their unbeaten streak to five\u00a0matches\u00a0with\u00a0a 2-2 draw against Houston Dynamo 2\u00a0before falling 3-1 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[54355,1492,56,58,57,105170],"class_list":["post-415178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city2","tag-featured","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-next-pro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415178","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=415178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}