San Antonio FC rallies past Colorado Springs with late winner

San Antonio FC walked into Weidner Field on Wednesday night and left with a road win that carried real weight in the Western Conference race. Behind two Jorge Hernández assists, a second-half header from Alex Crognale and four saves from Joey Batrouni, San Antonio beat Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC 2-1 on ESPN2 and took the season series.

Colorado Springs struck first in the 15th minute and did it the hard way. Yosuke Hanya helped force the sequence that led to a penalty, Batrouni denied Khori Bennett from the spot, and Bennett buried the rebound for his ninth regular-season goal and fourth opening goal of the year. San Antonio did not panic. Hernández found Dmitrii Erofeev in the 29th minute, and Erofeev finished his fifth goal of the campaign to level the match before halftime.

The decisive swing came from a set piece in the 70th minute. Hernández delivered the corner and Crognale powered the header home for the winner, a goal that rewarded San Antonio for staying patient while Colorado Springs controlled more of the ball. The Switchbacks finished with 55 percent possession and outshot San Antonio 14-6, but they could not turn territorial control into an equalizer.

Batrouni had the last word in stoppage time. He tipped Matt Mahoney’s close-range chance over the crossbar to preserve the lead and close out a result that looked much cleaner than the shot totals suggested. The goalkeeper’s stop capped a night in which San Antonio handled the moments that mattered most, especially after weathering an early penalty miss and a long stretch of Colorado Springs pressure.

Hernández’s night also moved him into rare company. With his two assists, he reached 41 regular-season assists in his 183rd USL Championship appearance, becoming only the 10th player in league history to hit 40 regular-season assists. That production has been central to San Antonio’s climb, and it was again the difference against a Switchbacks side that had split the first two meetings of 2026.

The result pushed San Antonio back into second place in the Western Conference and followed a 2-0 loss at Lexington on June 13 that had snapped a six-match scoring streak and a nine-match unbeaten run across all competitions. This was the response San Antonio needed: a road win, on national television, against a conference rival that had been waiting to make the table more crowded.