The Pittsburgh Riverhounds lost their second straight road game, surrendering a goal in each half and losting 2-0 to the El Paso Locomotive on Saturday night.
The Riverhounds (2-2-3) outshot El Paso (3-3-1) by a 9-7 margin and had a few legitimate scoring chances but fell to 1-2-2 away from Highmark Stadium.
The Locomotive took a 1-0 lead in the 39th minute when Denys Kostyshyn dropped a long diagonal ball right in front of Petar Petrovic, who took two quick touches and fired a shot inside the right post.
El Paso put the game away in the 69th minute. Defender Marc Navarro sent a long ball toward Luis Solignac just past midfield, and Riverhounds goalkeeper Jahmali White came way out of his net to try to make a play on it. When the ball bounced over White, Solignac jogged it into an empty goal.
The Riverhounds will return home Tuesday to play Maryland Bobcats FC of the NISA in a third-round match in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.
