Foxborough, Mass. • Dimirty Imbongo scored in the 53rd minute and the New England Revolution ended their winless streak at 10 matches with a 2-0 win over the Columbus Crew on Wednesday night.

Imbongo, who got a rare start after Jerry Bengtson was called up with the Honduran national team, slid one into an open net after a Diego Fagundez shot smacked the right post.

The Revolution (7-14-7) were handed an insurance goal in the 74th when Crew defender Chad Marshall inadvertently nodded it into his own net.

Rapids 3, Timbers 0 • At Commerce City, Colo., Andre Akpan scored in the sixth minute and Colorado escaped the Western Conference basement with a win over Portland.

Tony Cascio and Jaime Castrillon each added a goal for Colorado (9-17-2), which ended a four-game winless streak. The win leapfrogged Colorado past the Timbers and Chivas USA into seventh place in the West. —

MLS standings

EASTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

Sporting KC 15 7 5 50 34 24

New York 13 7 7 46 46 39

Chicago 13 8 5 44 35 31

Houston 11 7 9 42 39 33

Columbus 12 9 6 42 33 32

D.C. 12 10 5 41 43 38

Montreal 12 14 3 39 43 46

New England 7 14 7 28 35 38

Philadelphia 7 13 5 26 25 30

Toronto FC 5 16 6 21 30 48

WESTERN CONFERENCE

W L T Pts GF GA

San Jose 16 6 5 53 56 33

Real Salt Lake 14 10 4 46 38 32

Seattle 12 6 8 44 41 27

Los Angeles 13 11 4 43 48 40

Vancouver 10 11 7 37 29 37

FC Dallas 8 12 9 33 34 38

Colorado 9 17 2 29 36 41

Chivas USA 7 11 7 28 20 39

Portland 7 14 6 27 27 46

Wednesday's Games

New England 2, Columbus 0

Colorado 3, Portland 0

Thursday's Game

Real Salt Lake at Houston, 6:30 p.m.

Saturday's Game

Chivas USA at Seattle FC, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 12

Chicago at Toronto FC, 5 p.m.