Las Vegas Lights FC vs Lexington SC – Matchweek 33 – 2026 | Lexington Spoils the Farewell to Cashman

PHOTO REEL: Las Vegas Lights FC vs Lexington SC – Matchweek 33 – 2026

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Las Vegas Lights FC (10-6-13) | Lexington SC (14-5-10)

Game Summary

Lexington SC beat the Las Vegas Lights FC 5-3 on Saturday, October 17, in the last professional game ever played at Cashman Field. Nick Firmino scored twice, and Patrick Seagrist scored the final goal in the stadium’s history in stoppage time.

The Lights got goals from Carson Locker, Oalex Anderson and Patrick Leal, with Christian Pinzón setting up two of them. The win clinched a home playoff match and a top-four finish in the USL Championship Western Conference for Lexington.

Farewell to Cashman

I have shot plenty of games from the grass at Cashman Field, and none of them felt like this one. Farewell to Cashman Night was the last professional sporting event the old downtown ballpark will ever host, and Las Vegas showed up like they knew it. Back in August I shot a scoreless draw with Oakland Roots in 105-degree heat here. Tonight was cooler, louder, and a lot sadder.

The modern stadium went up in 1983 on the site of the original wooden Cashman Field, which hosted its first game in May 1948. It was home to Triple-A baseball for 35 years, first the Las Vegas Stars and then the Las Vegas 51s, and it once packed more than 15,000 people in for a 1993 exhibition between the Chicago White Sox and the Chicago Cubs. When the 51s left for Summerlin after 2018, the Lights had the place to themselves. The city sold the complex to homebuilder Lennar, and housing is going up where the pitch sits now. Owner José Bautista has not said where the Lights will play in 2027. So every photo in this reel is one of the last anybody will take of this place with a game in it.

First Half

Lexington came to town needing a win to lock up a home playoff match, with an attack that ranks second in the league in goals, and it played like it from the opening whistle. It took Lexington four minutes to spoil the party. Marcus Epps swung in a ball, and Xavier Zengue rose at the back post to head it home for a 1-0 lead. The Lights steadied, kept a little more of the ball (they finished with 51 percent possession), and Locker pulled them level in the 25th minute to get the stands going again.

Then the corners started. Lexington won nine of them on the night to two for Las Vegas, and that was the difference in this game. One of them paid off late in the half, when Aaron Molloy‘s delivery deflected off a Lights defender, and Firmino directed it on goal to make it 2-1. The best moment of the half came in stoppage time. Pinzón found Anderson, and Anderson buried it in the second minute of added time to send the place into halftime level at 2-2. From where I was standing on the sideline, that was the loudest I’ve ever heard Cashman.

Second Half

Anderson did not come back out for the second half, with Manuel Arteaga taking his spot up top. Lexington took the lead back in the 62nd minute on the prettiest goal of the night. Phillip Goodrum dropped a backheel into the path of Firmino on an underlapping run, and Firmino finished it for his second of the night. Thirteen minutes later it was another corner. Molloy sent it in, Lights keeper Triston Henry punched it only as far as Blaine Ferri, and Ferri fired it straight back through for a 4-2 lead.

That left Las Vegas two goals down with 15 minutes to play in the last game this building will ever host. The Lights did not fold. Leal came off the bench in the 75th minute and needed six minutes to make it a game, finishing a Pinzón ball in the 81st to cut it to 4-3. That was Pinzón’s second assist of the night. The push for an equalizer left space behind, though, and Lexington used it. Seagrist, who had come on for Nick Firmino in the 83rd minute, got on the end of a ball from Braudílio Rodrigues in stoppage time and made it 5-3. That goal is the last one ever scored at Cashman Field.

Post-Game

FSM’s Keira Orton worked the sideline all night and caught up with the Lights after the final whistle.

“We started off slow. We can’t do that. You got five goals at home; that just can’t happen,” Devin Rensing said. “This is a special place for a lot of people, and I was glad to see them come on and support our guys.”

“It’s bittersweet. Sucks that we couldn’t give the proper farewell that we wanted, but I think we’ve done beautiful moments here in Cashman. It’s been a good home to us,” Christian Pinzón said.

Lexington goes home with a guaranteed home playoff match and the best goal differential in the West at +18. The Lights have one match left, and it is the first one in a long time where the next home game is a question mark.

(Quotes via Lights FC.)

The Lights close the regular season on the road at Monterey Bay FC on Saturday, October 24 at 7:00 p.m. PT.

Box Score

Scoring Summary

Score shown Lights first. Minutes per Lexington SC’s official recap (ESPN lists Firmino’s first at 39′ and Seagrist at 90+1′).

By the Numbers

Team stats via ESPN.

Scroll down to check out the exclusive FSM photo reel by TQ (@TQtheTrojan)

Sideline reporting and postgame interviews by Keira Orton (@sportswithkeira)

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