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Dynamo douse Fire with late goal

May 18, 2008 - 5:58 AM BRIDGEVIEW, Illinois (Ticker) -- Bobby Boswell scored in the 83rd minute to lead the Houston Dynamo to a 2-1 victory over the Chicago Fire on Saturday night.

Boswell charged in on a free kick by Richard Mulrooney from the right side of the top of the box and headed home the game-winning goal.

"We saw on video during the week that they weren't real sharp on restarts," Boswell said. "I saw Richard giving the look to go quick, so I was coming up the middle and made a run. It was a good ball right to me, all I had to do was put it away."

"I think our attacking group played well," Dynamo coach Dominic Kinnear said. "From the first minute their movement, they created some good chances. Tonight a different guy stepped up and finished two chances and we got the win, and that's the most important thing."

Ricardo Clark gave Houston (2-2-4) a 1-0 lead with a tally in the 17th minute. Clark's shot from 20 yards was deflected in a crowd of players and beat Chicago goalkeeper Jon Busch, who was out of position due to the deflection.

"It just came together. I thought we played pretty well," Clark said. "I think we withstood a very good, very scary first 2 1/2 minutes from them."

Calen Carr tied the game, 1-1, with a goal in the 27th minute for Chicago (5-2-1), which entered Saturday having allowed the fewest goals in the league (three).

Carr, who was positioned in front of net, leaped and headed in a free kick by Cuauhtemoc Blanco past Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad.

"That play is something the Cuauhtemoc and I have been working on in practice," Carr said. "It felt really good to get that goal, but obviously we didn't get the result that we wanted out of the game."