DALLAS -- The Sidekicks called it a throwback game. The Blast would rather have thrown it away.

Dallas muscled its way to a 17-10 win over the Blast last night, helped by its ability to capitalize on set plays and by a diversified scoring attack that generated goals from seven different players.

The Blast (5-10) fell for the first time in Bobby McAvan's two games as coach and remained in fourth place in the Major Indoor Soccer League's Eastern Division. Dallas improved to 4-11.

"The Sidekicks showed a lot of emotion early, which is a good strategy against us, coming off a game last night," McAvan said. "Yesterday, we had so much emotion with the coaching change and we tried to carry it over to tonight, but couldn't do so. We couldn't match their pressure at the start."

Dallas, wearing green uniforms in honor of its first stint in the MISL, spent most of its energy maintaining a more physical style and ended up with 28 fouls to the Blast's 18. But Baltimore ended up paying a higher cost on three penalties.

The last one set up a power-play goal by Sidekicks forward David Doyle that gave Dallas a 14-7 lead with 11 minutes left. The Blast killed Dallas' first two power plays after entering next to last in the MISL in penalty killing at 50 percent.

Forward Sean Bowers gave his team a last blast of hope with three minutes left with a three-point goal that brought the Blast to within 14-10, but Dallas' Brad Flanagan hit an empty-net shot 90 seconds later to seal it.

Lance Johnson scored the Blast's only goal of the third period, sending a re-direct from Lee Tschantret at the top of the penalty area into the net. The Blast outshot the Sidekicks 15-10 in the second half but found the net only twice as Dallas took a 12-7 lead into the fourth quarter.

Bowers cut into an 8-2 Dallas lead two minutes into the second period with a three-point restart goal from the right side. Bowers, taken down against the boards on the previous play, fired the shot high over Dallas keeper Sagu's left shoulder. It was the Blast's only shot of the period.

The goal negated the impact of a Blast mistake off a Dallas restart a minute earlier. Dallas player/coach Tatu was credited with a goal after sending a low shot that caromed off Blast keeper Scott Hileman's left foot and trickled over the line.

Dallas scored first, five minutes into the game, as Tatu fed a sliding David Doyle inside the penalty area for a two-point goal. Jeff Betts, a player-coach for Utah last year in the defunct World Indoor Soccer League, got his first goal of the season 1:24 later for a 4-0 Dallas lead.

After a timeout, Blast forward Tarik Walker struck from the left side 28 seconds later to cut the lead in half.

Hileman made 10 saves for the Blast.

Blast 2 3 2 3 -- 10

Dallas 6 2 4 5 -- 17

First quarter: 1. Dallas, Doyle (Tatu), 5:19; 2. Dallas, Betts, 6:43; 3. Blast, Walker, 7:11; 4. Dallas, Shamu (Pernia), 9:53.

Second quarter: 5. Dallas, Tatu, 1:17; 6. Blast, Bowers, 3-point goal, 2:24.

Third quarter: 7. Dallas, Stavrou (Doyle), 2:23; 8. Blast, Johnson (Tschantret), 7:55; 9. Dallas, Valdivia (Tatu), 11:12.

Fourth quarter: 10. Dallas, Doyle, 3:06; 11. Blast, Bowers (Cabral), 12:00; 12. Dallas, Flanagan (Valdivia), 13:47.

Shots on goal: Blast 27, Dallas 31. Power-play opportunities: Blast 0-0, Dallas 1-3. Fouls: Blast 18, Dallas 28. Penalties: Blast, Johnson (charging), 2Q, 7:54; Blast, Santoro (tripping), 3Q, 3:40; Blast, Wells, 4Q, 1:36. Att.: 9,373.