Dick McCormick's penalty kick in the 76th minute completes the comeback as the Sounders rally from a goal down to eliminate Orange County in the first round of the A-League playoffs at Memorial Stadium. Eddie Soto spots the Zodiac a lead midway through the first period. Peter Hattrup ties it in the 63rd minute, before Ian Russell is pulled down in the box for the penalty.

With temperatures soaring near 90 at kickoff, the Sounders and Timbers take to the Civic Stadium stage to the roar of 27,310 and the unfurling of a banner reading, ‘Portland: Soccer City, U.S.A.’ Peter Withe cancels out Dave Gillett’s opener and then adds another second-half goal in the Timbers' 2-1 win. The victory puts 15-points’ difference between the Timbers and Sounders entering the final two weeks of the regular season.

Georgetown University gets a key goal from Seattle junior Paul Rothrock to win the NCAA Division I National Championship at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. The back-and-forth affair with Virginia ends in a 3-3 tie after 110 minutes of play and then goes to penalty kicks where GU gets the 7-6 win. Rothrock nets the Hoyas' first goal, tying the score, 1-1, in the 16th minute. It's his third goal of the tournament, having scored a brace vs. Louisville. He makes the all-tournament team. Georgetown had eliminated Washington, 2-1, in the quarterfinal at Washington, D.C.

Thirteen new fields at Redmond's Marymoor Park are dedicated with a ceremonial kickoff featuring King County Commissioner John Spellman. Some 3,000 attend, including hundreds of players who begin games immediately. Lake Washington Junior Soccer Association volunteers had labored to make the surface playable. Until recently it had been an uneven cow pasture. LWJSA has grown from 55 boys to over 1,600 in five years.

Theresa Wagner Romagnolo of Edmonds is named women’s head coach at Notre Dame. A four-time All-Pac-10 Conference choice at Washington, she went on to join the Stanford and University of San Diego staffs before her first head coaching appointment at Dartmouth in 2011. The Irish go 14-6-2 and reach the NCAA third round in Romagnolo’s first year.

Within a few hours of the terrorist attacks back east, Seattle Pacific postpones its women's soccer game vs. Western Washington later that evening at Interbay Stadium. Elsewhere, Puget Sound's men's afternoon game at Northwest Nazarene proceeds. The Loggers' flight back was canceled, however, due to the FAA ground stop order.