2003 A-League scoring champ McKinley Tennyson scored twice, and 2003 goal-scoring co-leader Fadi Afash also scored as the Timbers zoomed out to quick two goal lead, and ended up with a convincing 4-1 win over the Calgary Storm in a match played in front of an announced crowd of 2,772 at PGE Park. Jason Melendez had the other Timbers goal, while Mark Korthuis had the lone goal for the Storm.

The Timbers wasted absolutely no time getting on the board, with perhaps one of the fastest goals in A-League history. Hugo Alcaraz-Cuellar played a diagonal cross into the box, which bounced in front of Calgary goalkeeper James Glasnovic. Portland's McKinley Tennyson got to the ball first, and headed the ball over the keeper across the goal mouth, where it was knocked home by Fadi Afash, and just 35 seconds into the match, the Timbers were already up 1-0.

The second goal didn't take much longer. In the 7th minute, Afash played a ball wide to Tennyson, who cut back in across the top of the box, and hit a low, hard shot to the bottom left corner of the net, just inside the post, to give the Timbers an early 2-0 lead. Portland's Scott Benedetti had a good shot at a header off a corner kick in the 13th minute, but his header towards the far post was covered by a scrambling Glasnovic.

In the 17th minute, the Storm had their first good attack after Gavin Wilkinson lost the ball near midfield, but Nick Downing scrambled back to knock the ball out of bounds. Two minutes later, another turnover had Ian Dawes in on net, but his shot was a yard over the net.

In the 26th minute, a dangerous cross in from the right side by Alcaraz-Cuellar required a diving punch-out by Glasnovic to stop the ball getting to Tennyson, and stopped a dangerous Timbers threat. Six minutes later, Nicolas Zuniga got around the Timbers defense and made a diagonal run into the Timbers box, and his shot required a jumping save from Portland's keeper Cole Burgman, who knocked it wide left on the hard shot from 15 yards.

But in the 36th minute, the Timbers looked ready to take a 3-0 lead when anTennyson cross to the middle of the box saw Benedetti wide open, but the ball was slightly behind him, and he stumbled on the turf, and was unable to put the ball towards the empty Calgary net. Later that minute, the Storm pulled one back when Burgman was not able to hold onto a Conrad Chala cross, and the ball fell to the feet of Mark Korthuis, who knocked the ball home, and the Storm had pulled to within a goal at 2-1.

The game looked to be a one-goal affair at halftime, but deep into stoppage time, a low pass from Alcaraz-Cuellar to Tennyson deep inside the box allowed the Timbers striker to flick the ball towards net, where it hit off the right post and was into the net, and just before the halftime whistle sounded, the Timbers had widened the lead to 3-1.

In the first twenty minutes of the second half, only the Timbers were getting shots on net, with Alcaraz-Cuellar, Afash, and Manuel Brasil forcing saves from Glasnovic. In the 68th minute, a dangerous Calgary cross into the Timbers box required a punch-out by Burgman, who came well out of the goal mouth to barely get a fist on the ball. The game became more physical as the second half dragged on, with elbows being exchanged on violent collisions a few minutes apart, the second drawing a yellow card on Portland's Alcaraz-Cuellar. But in the 80th minute, the Timbers scored another goal, seemingly out of nowhere. Portland's Jason Melendez made a charge deep into the box after a free ball, and flicked it up over Glasnovic from only seven or eight yards out. Melendez was flattened in the collision with the keeper, but the high chip came down barely under the bar to put the Timbers up 4-1 as Melendez recorded his first professional goal.

The Storm had one more good chance to score in the 87th minute when Zuniga took a free kick for Calgary just a yard outside the Timbers box. Both teams had a few more shots on goal in the last few minutes, but none forced difficult saves by the respective keepers, and the Timbers held on for a 4-1 victory, their second over Calgary in three days.