TVS, which syndicates NASL national telecasts, instructs KIRO 7 to delay broadcast of the Sounders-Cosmos game for one week. Short of a sellout, crowd of 41,720 sees Seattle beat Pele´, Franz Beckenbauer & Co., 1-0. KIRO, which argued for an 11-hour delay, opts not to show week-old replay.

Neil Megson is named A-League Coach of the Year after leading the Sounders to the Pacific Division title, their first since 1994. Seattle went 18-7-3 for it's best win percentage in Megson's five years. A day earlier, Greg Howes won Rookie of the Year honors and Darren Sawatzky was named first team all-league. Howes, a Tacoma native who attended Oregon State, led the team with 17 goals and 41 points. In his first season back home, Sawatzky had 16 goals.

A record crowd of 5,000 attends the final day of the Husky Classic at Husky Stadium. San Jose State beats Chico State in championship final. Earlier Seattle Pacific upsets Cal, 3-0, and UCLA defeats Washington, 2-0.

Marcia Garcia's brace powers Gonzaga to a 3-0 home win over Loyal Marymount, extending the Zags' unbeaten run to a record nine games (7-0-2). Garcia scores only three minutes into the match and doubles the lead in the 61st. Kate Doyle assists on both scores. Maddie Kemp also scores for Gonzaga, which started the season 0-1-2.

Making his first start in more than two months, Román Torres heads home the winner and controls air traffic in front of Seattle's goal during a vital 1-0 victory over Minnesota United. The win, coming on the final day of the regular season in front of 47,297 at CenturyLink Field, earns the Sounders the West's No. 2 seed. It's also Osvaldo Alonso's first visit to Seattle since signing with the Loons in January. A searching, long cross from Joevin Jones finds Torres for a running header that flies into the net off newly-close-cropped skull the 29th minute. Torres, who has just returned from a 10-match suspension for violating MLS substance-abuse policy.

Melissa Bennett helps set-up two goals, and Tina Frimpong scores in her debut at Sounders Women begin the final month of the regular season by beating Denver Lady Cougars, 3-0, at Seahawks Stadium. Bennett finds Shannon Forslund for a first-half header and Frimpong for another header in the 67th minute. It's the start of a three-game win streak to finish league play, with the combined wins against the Colorado a 13-0 goal differential.