PORTLAND, Ore. Hakeem Olajuwon Jersey . -- Long after all the fans had gone and the turf was being vacuumed of confetti, Real Salt Lake was still celebrating its Western Conference championship. Aided by a boom box, RSL players sang and danced as they headed for their bus following Sunday nights 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers. The win gave Salt Lake a 5-2 aggregate advantage in the two-leg conference final. It also gave the team a spot in the MLS Cup against Sporting Kansas City on Dec. 7. "Its a good win for the team," said Robbie Findley, who scored the only goal in the second leg. "I think everybody put in the hard work, and when you have that, when you have all the guys committed to working hard and doing their jobs, you win games. We feel good right now, but we have one more to go." Salt Lake, which won the league championship in 2009, took a 4-2 lead two weeks ago at Rio Tinto Stadium in the first game of the conference final. Salt Lake has been to the playoffs for six straight seasons, the longest active streak in MLS. It lost to Seattle in the conference semifinals last season. RSL advanced to this years conference final by eliminating the two-time defending league champion Galaxy in the semis. Sundays victory extended RSLs unbeaten streak against Portland to 10 straight matches. The Timbers remain winless against Real Salt Lake since their first meeting when Portland joined MLS in the 2011 season. Portland went into the match with just one home loss this season. The Timbers were looking to become the first team in nine years to come back from a two-goal shortfall in the second match of an aggregate-goals series. Portland appeared to score off a corner in the 15th minute but the goal was waived off by the referee because of a foul in the box, frustrating the sellout crowd at Jeld-Wen Field. Findley had a rebound goal in the 29th minute. The RSL reserves spilled off the bench to join the celebration on the sideline, while Timbers first-year coach Caleb Porter looked on with pursed lips. Portland had a second goal nullified in the 33rd minute when Futty Danso was called offside by the linesman. "If Portland scores the first goal, they have all the momentum, theyre on their home field, theyve got their fans behind them and I think we would have been in a really, really tough place," RSL coach Jason Kreis said. "If we score the first goal, now its three goals, now they get a little desperate, some heads are hanging and theres some frustration involved. So great that we got the goal. Probably wasnt the prettiest one weve ever scored, but well take it and I thought we handled the match well from there." Porter said the officiating wasnt to blame, but he couldnt understand why the Timbers first goal was called back. He called it a "phantom foul." "Im left scratching my head as to what he saw on that play," Porter said. The Timbers outshot Real Salt Lake 18-7 for the match. "You could see their maturity, you could see their experience," Porter said about Salt Lake. "And they did what they needed to do." Salt Lake was without striker Alvaro Saborio, the teams leading scorer with 12 goals this season, because of a right hip flexor injury that also kept him out of the first leg. He did not travel to Portland. Salt Lake defender Chris Wingert was also out because of a broken rib and collapsed lung from the first leg. Meanwhile, Portlands top scorer, Diego Valeri, had struggled with an adductor injury, but practiced at full speed this week and started. Sporting advanced to the final with a 2-1 victory over Houston in the second leg of the Eastern Conference final on Saturday. The teams played to a scoreless draw in the first match. Its Sportings first trip to the MLS Cup since 2004. The Timbers finished last season 8-10-16 for eighth place in the conference and 17th in the league. 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Once he settled down, he started to feel better at the plate and on Monday he broke out of his slump in a big way. Colabello homered twice, including a tiebreaking grand slam in the ninth inning, to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 10-6 win over the Houston Astros. It was 6-all before Chia-Jen Lo (0-3) allowed a single to Brian Dozier with one out in the ninth. Doug Bernier and Chris Herrmann drew two-out walks on full-count pitches before Colabello hit the next pitch into the bullpen in right-centre. It was the first career grand slam for the 29-year-old Colabello, who ended a 0-for-23 skid with a single on Sunday. He spent years playing Independent League baseball before signing with the Twins last season. "Having spent as much time as I did in (independent) league ball I wanted to impress people," he said. "Any time you get into a new environment you want to go out and impress people every day and you kind of get yourself out of your element and things get a little out of character there. When you do that, its very hard to be yourself." "The biggest goal for a hitter is to go out and be yourself," he continued. "Trust your approach. Trust what you do. Believe in what got you here and then go from there. Today was a good step in that direction." Manager Ron Gardenhire was impressed with his performance on Monday. "That was pretty nice swings driving the ball," he said. "Thats a big day for him; we needed it." The Twins trailed 5-1 after two innings, but chipped away at the lead with the help of solo homers by Trevor Plouffe, Colabello and Dozier. A two-out RBI single by Pedro Florimon tied it in the eighth. Plouffe tied a career high with three hits and Doziers home run gives him 16 this season, which ties a franchise record for a second baseman. Chris Carter and Jason Castro drove in two runs apiece and Jose Altuve tied a career high with four hits for the Astros, who have lost six of seven. Custom Houston Rockets Jerseys. Josh Roenicke (3-1) pitched two hitless innings for the win. Minnesota starter Andrew Albers allowed nine hits and five runs, tying career highs, in 1 2-3 innings. "Today I left a lot of balls up and left a lot of balls right over the middle and they made me pay," he said. "It obviously wasnt a very good day." Houstons Paul Clemens allowed seven hits and four runs in 3 2-3 innings in his second major league start after making 30 relief appearances. Trevor Crowe hit an RBI single that capped a three-run first for Houston. Plouffe homered in the second. The Astros scored twice in their half. "Offensively we swung the bats well early and could not get anything after that," manager Bo Porter said. "Their bullpen did a good job of holding it right there and gave their offence a chance for the late inning rally that they put together." Castro, Houstons All-Star catcher, was injured in the second inning. He hit an RBI single, which skidded down the left field line to make it 4-1. Castro left the game after the hit. He appeared to injure himself on the swing on a foul ball the pitch before the single. He trotted slowly to first base on the hit and chatted with the team trainer and Porter for a couple of minutes before being replaced by Cody Clark. The injury leaves Clark as Houstons only healthy catcher. Carlos Corporan and Max Stassi are both on the seven-day concussion disabled list. Porter didnt have an update on Castro after the game. "Ill wait and see what the doctor says," he said. "I dont want to jump to any conclusions." NOTES: The series continues tomorrow when Houston rookie Jarred Cosart (1-1) opposes Pedro Hernandez (3-1). ... 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