Defending Mexican champion Pumas moved to the top of the Group D standings in the CONCACAF Champions League with a 5-1 victory Thursday at Honduran club Real Espana. In the other Group D match, CSD Comunicaciones of Guatemala beat W Connection of Trinidad 2-1. Dante Lopez scored three second-half goals as the Pumas pulled away from Real Espana for its second win in two matches. Real Espana has a win and a loss. Pablo Barrera and Jehu Chiapas gave Pumas a 2-0 lead in the first half. Real's Douglas Caetano narrowed the margin to 2-1 in the 50th before Lopez struck in the 63rd, 68th and 81st. River Plate, Emelec advance Bruno Montelongo scored two minutes from regulation time Thursday to give Uruguayan club River Plate a 2-1 win over Bolivia's Blooming and a place in the last 16 of the Copa Sudamericana. The match was scoreless until the 80th minute, when Jorge Cordoba gave River Plate the lead. Jose Luis Chavez scored an equalizer off a corner in the 86th for Blooming before Montelongo's winner in the 88th. In Thursday's other match, Hernan Peirone scored a last-minute winner for 10-man Emelec of Ecuador following a 2-1 defeat of Venezuelan club Zamora. The Copa Sudamericana is South America's No. 2 club tournament after the Copa Libertadores. Thursday's results meant River and Emelec became the 9th and 10th clubs to qualify for the tournament's last 16. CONMEBOL, football's South American governing body, awarded River a 3-0 win in the first leg in Bolivia after a Blooming supporter ran onto the pitch and attacked River forward Henry Gimenez, causing the match to be abandoned just after the hour mark. River was leading 1
