HOUSTON — Brian Ching scored twice in the first half and the Houston Dynamo held on for a 4-3 win over D.C. United tonight.

Houston (10-5-5) extended its lead in the Western Conference to six points over second-place Seattle.

The game was scoreless before the Dynamo scored three goals in a three-minute span in the first half, with Brad Davis scoring in the 36th minute shortly before Ching scored twice a minute apart.
Ching is a Kamehameha Schools graduate from Hale'iwa.
Houston held a 4-1 lead in the second half but Luciano Emilio's second goal of the game pulled United (6-4-10) within one in the 87th minute.

Dominic Oduro set up Davis' goal and the first one scored by Ching, who made a run to the upper right box and fired a shot that hit just inside the upper right corner of the net.

Ching made it 3-0 in the 39th minute after getting a pass from Mike Chabala in the left box and hitting his shot from 10 yards out just inside the far post.

Emilio got United on the board in the 48th minute off a lead pass from Bryan Namoff, seeing his shot from the right box deflect off Houston's Julius James and over goalkeeper Pat Onstad.

Houston's Stuart Holden answered with a penalty-kick goal in the 66th minute before D.C.'s Fred scored in the 75th minute from 25 yards to cut the lead to 4-2.

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