KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Swope Park Rangers and Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 square off on Friday night in a rematch of the Western Conference Final of the 2016 USL Cup Playoffs at Children’s Mercy Victory Field with the Rangers aiming to halt a two-game losing streak. Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m. CT.

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Swope Park Rangers news and notes

• Current record: 3-2-0, 9pts

• The Rangers fell for a second successive contest this past Saturday as Real Monarchs SLC took a 2-1 victory at Rio Tinto Stadium.

• Swope Park has won all three of its contests on home turf this season, and has won seven consecutive home games, including the postseason, dating back to last season.

• Kharlton Belmar leads the Rangers with three goals this season, and had the team’s lone tally in its defeat against the Monarchs.

• Center backs Amer Didic and Erik Palmer-Brown both hold a passing accuracy mark of over 90 percent, while each averaging more than 75 passes per 90 minutes this season.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 news and notes

• Current record: 2-2-2, 8pts

• Vancouver played to a 0-0 draw with Sacramento Republic FC on Saturday afternoon at Thunderbird Stadium as Spencer Richey recorded a five-save shutout.

• The shutout was the third for WFC2 this season, putting the side one behind a trio of teams that lead the USL with four.

• All six of the goals scored by WFC2 this season have come from inside the penalty area, with Thomas Sanner the lone player on the team with more than one goal.

• Homegrown midfielder Ben McKendry leads Vancouver in shots (14), shots on target (9), and chances created (10).

Series Notes

• WFC2 took victory in both regular-season meetings between the teams last season, but the Rangers earned a 3-0 victory in the postseason to win the USL’s Western Conference Championship.

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, Tyler Pasher; M: Wan Kuzain Wan Kamal, Louis Bennett, Lebo Moloto, Max Rugova, Christian Duke, Robert Mirosavic, James Musa, Kevin Oliveira; F: Cameron Iwasa, Kharlton Belmar, Nansel Selbol, Will Little, Mark Anthony Gonzalez

• Vancouver – GK: Spencer Richey, Sean Melvin, Mark Village; D: Jacob Nerwinski, Kadin Chung, Deklan Wynne, Christian Dean, Cole Seiler, Sem de Wit, Francis de Vries, Dominick Zator, Chris Serban; M: Deybi Flores, Ben McKendry, Thomas Gardner, David Norman Jr., William Seymore, Matthew Baldisimo, Marco Bustos, Patrick Metcalfe; F: Kyle Greig, Terran Campbell, Thomas Sanner, Gloire Amanda, Andrew Thoma, Theo Bair, Nazeem Bartman

Discipline

• Swope Park – None

• Vancouver – None

Officials

• REF: CALIN RADOSAV

• AR1: Ryan Cook

• AR2: Jared Palmer

• 4TH: Joshua Pennington

Game hashtag:

• #SPRvVAN

Twitter social handles

• Swope Park Rangers – @SwopeRangers

• Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 – @WFC2