Nate Jaqua and Dwayne De Rosario scored goals and the Houston Dynamo advanced to its second straight MLS Cup with a 2-0 win over Kansas City in the Western Conference final tonight.

The Dynamo will face New England next Sunday, the team it defeated in last year's championship match. The Revolution reached its third consecutive MLS Cup with a 1-0 win over Chicago on Thursday night.

Playing before a rowdy, sellout crowd for the second straight weekend, Houston dominated at both ends, outshooting Kansas City 11-3. Dynamo goalkeeper Pat Onstad never even had to make a save.

The Dynamo created good scoring chances from the start and finally took a 1-0 lead on a corner kick in the 35th minute.

Midfielder Richard Mulrooney hooked his high kick in toward the goal and the 6-foot-3 Jaqua outleaped Kansas City goalkeeper Kevin Hartman to head it into the top left corner of the net. It was the first goal allowed by the Wizards in four games, a span of 371 minutes.

The Wizards mustered only one shot in the opening half, a blast by forward Eddie Johnson in the 12th minute that sailed wide right of the goal.

Houston outshot Kansas City 9-1 in the first half and Hartman had to make two saves in traffic two minutes after halftime.

As Houston continued to dominate, the Wizards got frustrated, getting two yellow cards in a three-minute span.

The Dynamo kept the pressure on.

In the 68th minute, midfielder Brad Davis drove into the penalty area and ripped a low shot that Hartman dived to knock away. De Rosario and Jaqua had a 2-on-1 chance in the 76th minute, but Kansas City defender Jimmy Conrad deflected De Rosario's cross out of bounds.

De Rosario put the game away in the 81st minute when he took a long pass from defensman Craig Waibel, outran a defender and beat Hartman with a low, left-footed drive.

Aside from a few runs by Johnson and a corner kick that the Dynamo quickly cleared, Kansas City never mounted much of an attack in the second half either.

Hale'iwa's Brian Ching is a starting forward for the Dynamo.

The game drew 30,972 fans, a Dynamo record in its two seasons in Houston.