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Kyle Beckerman scored a ricochet goal in the 63rd minute to give Real Salt Lake a 1-0 season-opening victory over the San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday night.
Beckerman walked onto a pass from Javier Morales at the top of the circle and fired a curling shot that took one skip off the rain-soaked turf, skipping past diving San Jose goalkeeper Jon Busch and taking a bounce off the left post into the net.
Real Salt Lake goalkeeper Nick Rimando - facing a driving, nearly horizontal rain in the second half - made two critical stops in the 70th minute, turning aside a 15-yard attempt from Chris Wondolowski, the MLS' leading goal scorer in 2010, and a 25-yarder from Khari Stephenson.
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