Las Vegas plays at Phoenix in a United Soccer League regular-season match at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Casino Arizona Field in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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Sammy Ochoa and Victor Rojas scored goals, propelling the Lights FC to 2-0 second-round victory over Cal FC on Tuesday night at Cashman Field.
Irvin Parra scored twice to lead the Lights FC to a 3-0 victory over the Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC in a United Soccer League match Saturday at Cashman Field.
This is the Lights’ second home game in a row in a stretch where they play eight home matches in 11 dates.
It was only the third time in the history of the European Cup that a team came from three goals down after the first leg of a semifinal and progressed to the final.
The Lights are coming off a 0-0 draw Monday at the LA Galaxy II.
The Lights FC ranks fourth among 35 United Soccer League clubs with average attendance of 8,308 — about 1,400 fewer than the Aviators are drawing in their new stadium.
The Lights are coming off their biggest victory of the season, a 5-0 home win over Tacoma Defiance last Saturday.
MLS commissioner Don Garber said Las Vegas was a candidate for the league’s 30th team, but all indications are the city’s hope for a first division soccer team are slim.
Sacramento and St. Louis have been invited to submit formal bids for franchises as Major League Soccer’s Board of Governors formally unveiled plans Thursday to expand to 30 teams.
Lights FC owner Brett Lashbrook wants to bring Major League Soccer spring training to Las Vegas, even if Tucson, Arizona, has first dibs.
Former Canyon Springs football coach Hunkie Cooper and 10 other Southern Nevadans were inducted into the NIAA this week. They will be honored during a banquet April 25 at The Orleans.
Search teams have yet to find any trace of the plane carrying Argentine soccer player Emiliano Sala after a second day searching the English Channel from the air and sea, authorities said Wednesday.
Colorado Rapids and former U.S. national team goalkeeper Tim Howard says this season will be his last in Major League Soccer.
Cristiano Ronaldo will make an unwanted trip back to Madrid on Tuesday and is expected to plead guilty to tax fraud.