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METAIRIE, La. -- Newly acquired offensive lineman Khalif Barnes and defensive end Chris McCain practiced for the first time Tuesday with the New Orleans Saints, who also cut 14 players as the NFL lowered maximum rosters from 90 players to 75 for the remainder of the preseason.Those trimmed from the Saints roster Tuesday were: tight end Rashaun Allen, receiver Reggie Bell, receiver Jared Dangerfield, defensive back Brandon Dixon, Guard Kaleb Eulls, defensive back Jamal Golden, receiver R.J. Harris, long snapper Chris Highland, running back Sione Houma, guard Cyril Lemon, defensive back Jimmy Pruitt, linebacker Tony Steward, defensive end Matt Shaughnessy, and defensive tackle C.J. Wilson.More cuts will come between Thursday nights preseason finale against Baltimore and Week 1 of the regular season, when rosters must be reduced to 53 players.The 6-foot-6, 320-pound Barnes, an 11-year veteran who has played with Jacksonville and Oakland, was brought in to compete for snaps on an offensive line that has struggled this preseason to both protect the quarterback and block for the run. Barnes has experience playing at both guard and tackle.Whatever they ask me to do, Ill do that to the best of my ability, Barnes said. Mentally, I think Ive been playing long enough to kind of group the concepts together and kind of match those to what Ive already known from other places.Id say Id be familiar with whatever they want me to do, the 34-year-old Barnes added.Barnes said he suspects his combination of experience and versatility made him a candidate to join the Saints offensive line, where he is expected to play at least a few snaps against the Ravens on Thursday night.Barnes also was a starter in Oakland when current Saints defensive coordinator Dennis Allen was the Raiders head coach.That might have had something to do with it as well, he said.Barnes appeared in 14 games with one start for Oakland last season. 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Perth Glory have scored their first win of the A-League season with a 2-0 win over the Wellington Phoenix at nib Stadium.The Phoenix were coming off an opening-round loss to Melbourne City and started strongly but Glory took control and turned their dominance into goals in the second half.Perth got on the board through a Diego Castro penalty and they shouldve doubled their advantage, but Andy Keogh delivered a powerless penalty effort in the 61st minute.It mattered little with Nebojsa Marinkovic scoring with a powerful shot five minutes later having come on for the injured Adam Taggart.It was a sloppy start from the home team but Glory soon settled and over the last half-hour of the first half had plenty of chances they could and should have scored from.Castro, Chris Harold, Marinkovic, Keogh and Rostyn Griffiths all had good looks on goal but none gave Phoenix goalkeeper Glen Moss any serious headaches.While Wellington was hanging in there well in the first half, it didnt last.Perths opening goal came when Adam Parkhouse tripped Harold in the box when he was awaiting a cross from Keogh and Castro had no trouble with the 48th-minute penalty.Keogh also got a clear penalty call in his favour just over 10 minutes later when taken down by Moss when left one-on-one in the box. The Irishman offered a poor penalty that meekly went straight to the keeper.A stunning run byy Josh Risdon in the 66th minute set up Marinkovic to strike a cracking goal to put Perth 2-0.ddddddddddddThe win comes after Perths 3-3 draw at home to Central Coast despite leading 3-0 and now they go on the road to face unbeaten Melbourne City on Friday.Wellington host the also undefeated Sydney FC on Sunday.Glory coach Kenny Lowe was happy with his teams response to last weeks disappointing draw.The first 15 I thought they had come out of the blocks and looked lively and bright, but I thought that was more us being a little bit tepid. Once we got the grips of the game it was OK, Lowe said.We played some good stuff at times and opened them up with some really good football. Both penalties were great football and the goal was an excellent goal as well.Wellington coach Ernie Merrick couldnt find too much to fault in his teams performance apart from the lack of finishing in front of goal.I thought we started off really well with some good passing moves. For the rest of the half, Perth was the strongest team and then we conceded a goal within three minutes of the second half, Merrick said.But in that front third we werent deadly at all really and the Perth defence did well. If we had got one maybe we could have made more of a game of it. ' ' '