# Big Ben Lundt Comes Up Clutch As St Louis CITY Advances in Open Cup | Red Smoke Rising, May 20, 2026

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Published: 2026-05-21T03:37:10+00:00
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The red smoke rises and we are going where no St. Louis CITY club has gone before! Big Ben Lundt and Dante Polvara etched their names into CITY lore by coming up big as CITY defeats Houston Dynamo in penalties to advance to the semifinals! We break down the game, look at how the DC result Saturday might have been a harbinger of things to come, we preview our final pre-World Cup game against Austin this Saturday, and wonder what the hell has happened to CITY2 lately...all this on Red Smoke Rising! #STLRising #AllForCITY #MLS Proudly supported by The Pat Connolly Tavern! https://www.patconnollytavern.com/ Follow Red Smoke Rising on: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redsmokerising/ X: https://x.com/redsmokerising/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/redsmokerising.bsky.social

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