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Real Salt Lake routs the Rapids, claims Rocky Mountain Cup

Commerce City, Colo. • Jefferson Savarino had two goals and an assist to help Real Salt Lake beat the Colorado Rapids 6-0 on Saturday night.

Colorado’s Niki Jackson and Bismark Boateng were each shown a red card in the ninth and 45th minute, respectively.

Damir Kreilach opened the scoring in the sixth minute, first-timing a cross by Plata past a diving Tim Howard from the corner of the 6-yard box.

Savarino, a 21-year-old forward, scored in the 33rd and then rifled a right-footer into the top corner of the net from outside the box to make it 3-0 in the 58th minute.