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PORTLAND, Ore. - Gaston Fernandez scored on a header in the 85th minute to pull the Portland Timbers into a 3-3 draw with the Columbus Crew on Saturday night. There were a flurry of goals in the final 10 minutes. Portlands Will Johnson tied the match at 2-all in the 80th minute. Ethan Finlays shot deflected off a Portland player for an own goal for Columbus a minute later. The draw snapped a three-match losing streak for Columbus, but the Crew (3-4-4) remain winless in their last eight matches. Columbus hadnt scored a goal since April 26 in a 1-1 draw with the New York Red Bulls. Federico Higuain had a pair of goals for the Crew and Maximiliano Urruti opened the scoring for Portland (1-3-7) in the fifth minute. Portland defender Alvas Powell was sent off with a red card for a foul on Chad Barson in the 34th minute, putting the Timbers down a man for the rest of the match. The Timbers finished atop the Western Conference standings last season, but have just one victory this year even though they havent dropped a match at Providence Park this season. The Timbers were coming off a 1-1 draw at home against the Los Angeles Galaxy last weekend, with both goals coming in stoppage time. Columbus was without defender Michael Parkhurst, who is training with the U.S. national team in advance of the World Cup. Fellow defender Waylon Francis has been called up for duty with the Costa Rican national team. The Timbers were without midfielder Diego Chara and defender Michael Harrington because of injuries in last weeks draw with the Galaxy. Chara had surgery to stabilize a fractured bone in his left hand and will miss two weeks. After Urrutis goal from the corner of the box sailed past Crew goalkeeper Steve Clark in the fifth minute, Higuain evened it nine minutes later on a goal that sailed over goalkeeper Donovan Ricketts outstretched arms and into the back of the net. The match got contentious in stoppage time just before the break when Futty Danso was called for a foul in the penalty area and Higuain beat Ricketts. The Providence Park crowd loudly booed the refs, and Timbers coach Caleb Porter shouted at them as the team walked off the field. This is the only match between the teams this season. The last Portland meeting between the teams in 2012 ended with a scoreless draw. The Crew has won both previous meetings in Columbus, Lee Roy Selmon Womens Jersey .Y. - Alex Smith and the Kansas City Chiefs didnt flinch in the face of adversity. Mike Edwards Youth Jersey . Fellow Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain also had a brace for Napoli. And Samuel Etoo scored for his fourth different team. 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Masahiro Tanaka has touched down in the United States and the courting of the Rakuten Golden Eagles stud pitcher has begun in earnest by a bevy of MLB teams interested in the Japanese ace.WINNIPEG - Its certainly not the way Bryan Little or the Winnipeg Jets would like to win hockey games.After blowing a two-goal lead to the Coyotes in the third period, the Jets had to claw and scrape for two points— eventually pulling away with a 4-3 shootout victory against Arizona.We didnt make it easy on ourselves, getting into some penalty trouble at the end, said Little, who scored the games first goal in regulation and then fired home the shootout winner.The Jets (25-4-8) made amends for their third period collapse, improving their win streak to four games while earning at least a point in six straight contests dating back to Jan. 10 against the Los Angeles Kings.Tonight we let it slip a little bit. Still, it still feels good to get both points, said Little. Wed rather not win that way and give up leads, but at the same time we are still managing to get wins and we are still managing to stick with it and come away (with points).It was a really good ending… a really, really good ending, added Jets head coach Paul Maurice, when asked to characterize the hockey game.The Jets also saw goals from Michael Frolik and Dustin Byfuglien.Ondrej Pavelec made 28 saves and for the Jets. Mike Smith stopped 27 shots for the Coyotes.The Coyotes (16-24-5), meanwhile, were left to lick their wounds after watching a heroic comeback eventually end in ruin— and their winless streak extend to five games.Obviously, you lose a game and there is not a lot to take out of it, said captain Shane Doan, who picked up two assists on the night after returning from injury.But youre down 3-1 on the road, on a back-to-back night, thats a big point to get. To find a way to come back and find a way back into the game, its huge. As a team, you have to grow and learn and hopefully be better for the next game.The Coyotes tied the game three and a half minutes after Little opened the scoring as Oliver Ekman-Larsson found twine for his 12th of the year. It was the first shhot Arizona registered on goal.ddddddddddddoan, who missed two games due to his lower-body injury, assisted on Ekman-Larssons goal— although he admitted he found it tough to get going.I didnt have very good legs, he said. You get an assist early and all of the sudden everything feels a little bit better and you feel like youre involved in the game, but your legs arent as good as you want them to be.Frolik scored his 10th on a gaffe by the Coyotes with 1:39 gone in the second period to give the Jets a 2-1 lead.Smith, playing the puck behind his own net, passed it to Connor Murphy, who lost the handle on it. The puck found its way in front of the Coyotes net and onto the stick of Frolik, who made no mistake with the net still vacated.I think we are on a roll and we want to keep going, Frolik said. I dont really look to the standings much but obviously we feel pretty good about ourselves. We just need to keep going, keep rolling, dont change must and just try to get better.Smith kept his team within one goal with just moments left on the clock in the second period as he slid from post-to-post to rob Little of his second of the game.Smith would later make multiple game-saving stops with seconds left on the clock in overtime.Huge. (Smith) played great for us all night and made some key saves at key times, said Coyotes defenceman Keith Yandle.Byfuglien would extend the Jets lead to 3-1 as he wired a wrist shot above a helpless Smith at 9:36 mark of the third after Scheifele found him on a two-on-one break.But Lauri Korpikoski cut the lead in half with under 10 minutes to go and moments later Tobias Rieder completed the comeback with his sixth on the year at 16:10 of the third to secure a point for the Coyotes.I think it is (a morale booster), said Yandle on the comeback. Its a tough building to play in. To tie it up i