Nick Perera of the Tacoma Stars is voted the Gold Ball after the United States reclaims the Concacaf Beach Soccer championship in Nassau, Bahamas. Perera scores in the 5-0 victory over Mexico in the final. He had back-to-back hat tricks during the group stage and finishes the tournament with nine goals. The U.S. wins its first regional title since 2013.

Paul Crossley sets-up three goals and both Tjeert Van't Land and John Rowlands score twice in Seattle's 5-1 spanking of 10-man San Jose at Memorial Stadium. The Sounders spot the visitors an early goal, but Crossley's cross to Rowlands is flicked on to Van't Land for the equalizer. The English winger then sends crosses onto the heads of Rowlands and Van't Land in the 23rd and 49th minutes, respectively, to make it 3-1. Crossley, on loan from Tranmere, has assisted on seven goals and scored two in his first 11 matches.

Although they overcame a disastrous start to surge into contention, the Tacoma Stars are eliminated from the MISL playoff race in the next-to-last game. A Juan Cardenas hat trick helps the L.A. Lazers snap the Stars' 11-game Tacoma Dome win streak, 6-5, before 10,824. Mark Peterson scores two goals for Tacoma, which had won 20 of 33. The Lazers also won at the Forum two nights earlier.

Washington's Supreme Court rules that Washington State University has unconstitutionally discriminated against women's athletic programs. The 8-1 decision affirms most of a Whitman County Superior Court decision in January 1983. Justice James Dolliver, writing for the Supreme Court majority, says football should be allowed only a partial exemption. Effectively, it leads to the addition of additional varsity women's programs and support, including increased scholarship and the formation of varsity soccer at WSU, Washington and Eastern Washington. Women athletes and coaches at Washington State filed a class action lawsuit in 1983.

Kaycie Hutchins assists on a record five goals in Central Washington’s 8-0 rocking of Northwest University at Kirkland. Hutchins, who scored the Wildcats’ only goal in their first three matches, finds Monique Cornier to open the scoring at 5:42 and Cornier double the lead two minutes later. In the second half, Hutchins sets up Serena Tomaso (twice) and Gwenna Carie, all within a span of five minutes.

The first professional match played on artificial turf attracts a record crowd of 7,764 to witness Kilmarnock of the Scottish Premier League trim England's West Ham United, 2-1, at Memorial Stadium. Fans barely settled in their seats before the two sides exchanged goals in the first six minutes. Eddie Morrison's second-half header proved the difference. West Ham featured 20-year-old Trevor Brooking, plus future Sounders players and coaches Bobby Howe and Harry Redknapp.