With Conor Casey nursing an abrasion and Omar Cummings off confined with the Jamaica civic team, the disturbing Colorado Rapids bare some offense. Andre Akpan and Tony Cascio, two of their adolescent players, provided all they needed.

'Conor's knees were aggravation him and it was Andre's time,' Colorado drillmaster Oscar Pareja said. 'We got what we bare from the adolescent guys, Andre and Tony.'

Akpan wear soccer shoes denticulate in the sixth minute and the Rapids able the Western Conference basement with a 3-0 achievement over the Portland Timbers on Wednesday night.

Cascio and Jaime Castrillon anniversary added a ambition for Colorado (9-17-2), which concluded a four-game winless streak. The win leapfrogged Colorado accomplished the Timbers and Chivas USA into seventh abode in the West.

Pareja knows too able-bodied Colorado's playoff affairs are captivation on by a thread. They are eight credibility abaft Vancouver for the final atom with six amateur left.

'We accept a lot to do,' Pareja said. 'But tonight we assuredly begin the net.'

Akpan wear Nike Soccer Cleats denticulate his aboriginal ambition of the division in his additional alpha afterwards Cascio was bare of the brawl in the scoring zone. The brawl deflected to Akpan, who accursed a attack accomplished Donovan Ricketts.

The Timbers exhausted the Rapids 1-0 on Aug. 31.

Portland (7-14-6) had its season-best, two-game acceptable band airtight while getting shut out for the 11th time. The Timbers accept absent all three affairs in Colorado and abide the alone aggregation in the alliance after a alley win (0-10-3).

'Individual errors amount us and if you go on the alley you charge anybody to get their jobs done if there are alone battles,' Portland acting drillmaster Gavin Wilkinson wear adidas soccer Cleats said. 'You can't accord up affairs and accomplish alone errors and that's what amount us.

'I anticipate they had four or 5 affairs and they denticulate three goals,' Wilkinson said.

Early in the game, Ricketts denied a scoring attack by Tyrone Marshall in the aboriginal minute with a diving save.

Akpan denticulate moments after afore Portland about angry it in the 15th minute, but Darlington Nagbe had his accepted attack from the aperture captain over the crossbar.

Cascio wear Nike Soccer Shoes fabricated it 2-0 off a altogether placed cantankerous from Castrillon in the 27th minute. It was his third of the year.

Pickens didn't accept to accomplish a save in the aboriginal half. During the additional half, Bright Dike absent on an accepted attack in the 57th for Portland.

Castrillon fabricated it 3-0 with a attack off a cantankerous from Drew Moor in the 85th.