KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Swope Park Rangers will try to claim the second consecutive victory to start the season when they play host to a Portland Timbers 2 side aiming to bounce back from a defeat in its first game of the season. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. CT.

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Swope Park Rangers news and notes

• Current record: 1-0-0, 3pts

• The Rangers got out to a strong start to the season with a 3-1 victory against OKC Energy FC on Saturday night as Kharlton Belmar and Latif Blessing both scored their first goals for the club.

• Daniel Salloi had a goal and assist in the contest to lead the team to victory, as the Sporting Kansas City Homegrown signing scored in a second consecutive home opener for SPR.

• The Rangers will have U.S. U20 international Erik Palmer-Brown available for selection on Wednesday night. The SKC Homegrown signing having earned the Golden Ball at the CONCACAF U20 Championship this offseason as the U.S. claimed the championship.

• Swope Park led every team in the USL on the opening weekend of the season with an 84-percent passing completion percentage, and sat tied for second on a 33-percent conversion rate in front of goal.

Portland Timbers 2 news and notes

• Current record: 0-0-1, 0pts

• Portland dropped its opening game of the season as Real Monarchs SLC took a 2-1 victory at Providence Park despite a goal by Augustine Williams for T2.

• Despite conceding a pair of goals, Kendall McIntosh had a strong in goal for T2 as he finished with seven saves for the game, the most of any goalkeeper on USL Kickoff weekend.

• Wednesday night’s game will see the return to Swope Park of new T2 midfielder Tomas Granitto, who played the full 90 minutes on Saturday and had a team-high 62 passes after moving to Portland this offseason.

• Granitto and 2016 USL Assists Champion Villyan Bijev both created two chances in the opening game against the Monarchs, but neither resulted in a goal.

Series Notes

• Swope Park took a 2-1 victory in its inaugural contest in 2016 against Portland as Kevin Oliveira scored the first goal in club history, but T2 turned the tables with a 2-1 win of their own at home later in the season.

Squads

• Swope Park - GK: David Greczek, Darrin MacLeod, Adrian Zendejas; D: Chase Bromstedt, Parker Maher, Oumar Ballo, Dakota Barnathan, Patrick Wilkinson, Liam Doyle, Amer Didic, Colton Storm, Erik Palmer-Brown; M: Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal, Louis Bennett, Felipe Hernandez, Lebo Moloto, Max Rugova, Christian Duke, Robert Mirosavic, James Musa, Kevin Oliveira; F: Kharlton Belmar, Nansel Selbol, Will Little, Mark Anthony Gonzalez

• Portland - GK: Wade Hamilton, Kendall McIntosh, Christian Herrera; D: Michael Amick, Lamar Batista, Kyle Bjornethun, Rennico Clarke, Alan Cruz, Harold Hanson, Marco Farfan, Shaquille Jimenez, Max Ornstill; M: Victor Arboleda, Villyan Bijev, Blake Bodily, Neco Brett, Russell Cicerone, Dylan Damraoui, Tomas Granitto, Andre Lewis, Omar Mohamed, Jacob Montes, Jose Perez: F: Jeremy Ebobisse, Augustine Williams, Lucas Cini

Discipline

• Swope Park – None

• OKC – None

Officials

• REF: NIMA SAGHIFI

• AR1: Shane Kennard

• AR2: Devin Blazek

• 4TH: Spenser Scopel

Game hashtag:

• #SPRvPOR

Twitter social handles

• Swope Park Rangers – @SwopeRangers

• Portland Timbers 2 – @TimbersFC2