Here's my game story.

The Sounders started only four players who started Saturday at Colorado. And coach Sigi Schmid said he wouldn't have started that many except for a series of injuries that forced him to. (Good news: Freddie Ljungberg expected back Saturday; bad news: Taylor Graham on injured list with foot injury and out at least six weeks.)

However, even at that, Schmid said that moving into the main portion of the U.S. Open Cup was important to him.

"It matters," he said. "It’s been a while since I’ve been able to be in the U.S. Open Cup because when I got to Columbus the team hadn’t made the playoffs the year before, and we got knocked out in the play-in game, and we got knocked out in the play-in game in year two. And then last year we thought we were going to get in and we got knocked out in the second play-in game by Chicago on penalty kicks in the end of the game. So it was real frustrating, because I wanted to get back in the tournament. But for us, starting starters was really out of necessity."

Now he's back in ... although the Sounders won't return to Cup play until on or around June 30, with site and opponent yet to be determined. (elmocatt has more information in the comments section below... thanks EC.)

I thought the best player on the field today was Sanna Nyassi, who posed many threats speeding down the right side.

However, his prime contribution ended up being a long throw in that Roger Levesque sent on to Kevin Forrest, who scored the game's lone goal.

"To be honest, I didn’t have that great of a game," Forrest said. "But you just go out, and Sigi always tells me it’s just thinking, thinking ahead, thinking at a faster pace, and that’s what I’m working on. It wasn’t a great game, but you just keep going, keep improving, keep working. It’s nice to contribute. That’s the biggest thing for the team."

Here's Levesque's take on the throw-in that started it all:

"I think everyone on the field, including our entire team, was surprised that Senna had a long throw. I’ve never seen it in practice before, but he stepped up, chucked it in the box, and I was standing at the right place at the right time, just trying to get anything I could on it to direct it to the goal, Kevin Forrest came in, made a strong run right to the center of the goal and was in the right place at the right time and had a great finish on it. I don’t think there was anything Preston could have done about it."

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Fans -- presumably Sounders fans -- are voting Seattle Sounders FC players to nine of the top 11 all-star positions after two weeks of voting.

The only non-Sounders currently in First XI positions are Toronto's Dwayne DeRosario and LA's Landon Donovan. The nine Sounders are Kasey Keller, Freddie Ljungberg, Fredy Montero, Osvaldo Alonso, Tyrone Marshall, Jhon Kennedy Hurtado, Steve Zakuani, Sebastien Le Toux and Brad Evans.

Here's the full story from MLSnet.com.