By Pearl Allison Lo

~ San Jose’s Adam Jahn scored his first goal in almost 2 years to the date, as the Quakes held on for a 1-0 win over the Houston Dynamo Tuesday.

One minute after Jahn had a deflected shot, he got another chance with an immediate backwards header off Matias Perez-Garcia’s free kick in the 54th minute. Jahn said, “It’s a numbers game; just keep knocking on the door.”

The Quakes have gone without multiple goals since March 22, but all they needed was Jahn. It San Jose moved up to fourth place in the Western Conference

Houston shored up their defense, though not enough. It was a vast improvement from the previous two games.

San Jose’s Fatai Alashe was knocked out of the game in the 26th minute with a yellow card against his opponent, Ricardo Clark. Alashe was kneed in the back by Clark.

The Quakes looked like they had the possibility of making it three straight games with no shots on goal from Western conference opponents after the first half.

However, Clark spoiled that with a shot on goal in the 46th minute.  It was the first given up by San Jose in 135 minutes.

The Dynamo looked like they would tie the game after Quakes’ goalie David Bingham was called for a penalty in the 57th minute, as Boniek Garcia was trying to get to the net.

Giles Barnes took the penalty kick and Bingham rectified the penalty with a save in his first penalty kick. It would have been Barnes’ fifth goal in as many games.

Game notes: San Jose is now 3-0-1 when scoring first in 2015. The Quakes’ Jordan Stewart played for the first time since October 26, 2014. San Jose’s Chris Wondolowski had five shots, none on net and still has not scored against his former team. It was Quakes’ head coach Dominic Kinnear’s first game versus his former team and he is now 24-1-7 with San Jose. The Quakes finish their four-game road trip at Colorado when they face the Rapids at 7pm.