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Freshman Ricci Greenwood comes off the bench to score with less than four minutes remaining in overtime as Seattle Pacific earns state collegiate soccer bragging rights by beating Washington, 1-0, before a crowd of 2,300 at Newport High School. Marcus Hahnemann makes five saves to earn his 10th shutout. The Huskies' Dusty Hudock made three outstanding saves to keep it scoreless after 90 minutes of regulation. Greenwood, playing for the first time in four weeks, finds the net in the 116th minute, fires home from the left side of the box. SPU is unbeaten (23-0-2) in 25 home games played on the Eastside and has not lost to UW in the last three meetings, dating back to 1989.
Jessie Ray scores in the 99th minute to lift Seattle University to the 2019 WAC Tournament Championship in a come-from-behind effort at home against Utah Valley, 2-1. Leahi Manthei ties the match in the 86th minute, and then Ray wins the Redhawks' second straight WAC title and automatic NCAA postseason berth. Olivia Ovenell sends a looping ball towards the box, where tournament MVP Ray corrals it and smashes it to the left side of the net. It's the seventh win in eight games for Seattle U, which had earlier won its fifth conference regular-season title since 2013 .
Bellevue Christian snaps Seattle Christian's 70-game unbeaten streak, 1-0, in the championship game of the Tournament of Champions at Juanita High School. The Warriors last lost in October 1992, 2-1 to North Mason. Becky Ylvisaker scores BC's lone goal and goalkeeper Catherine Kraayveld earns the shutout despite Seattle Christian outshooting BC, 27-3.
Spokane's USL ownership group announces plans to bring a women's professional club to the new downtown stadium. Ryan and Katie Harnetiaux, with Aequus Sports, LLC, had already committed to a men's USL League One franchise. The women's team will be the state's first entry into the women's first division-sanctioned Super League, set to kick off in 2024.
Neeku Purcell of Seattle posts her fourth tournament shutout as the United States wraps up the Concacaf U20 Women's Championship with a 2-0 win over Mexico in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Purcell pushes a dipping drive over the crossbar in the 86th minute for her most difficult stop of her four outings.
Ruth Frobe and Laura Dutt connect for a pair of first-half goals to help Pacific Lutheran ease to its first NAIA postseason victory, 5-0, over Willamette in Olympia. Senior co-captain Frobe serves a corner kick to Dutt, a freshman, in the 8th minute to get things started. It's the same combination in the 40th minute to make it 4-nil. Frobe finishes her career (1984-87) with a record 43 assists. It's also Gail Stenzel's 16th shutout.