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Thirteen days before polls close on Referendum 48, Paul Allen's Football Northwest sponsors a showcase of what a new soccer and football stadium would offer. The Sounders face their first Major League Soccer opposition as the San Jose Clash visit Memorial Stadium for an exhibition. The Clash feature former Sounders midfielders Shawn Medved and Dominic Kinnear. Attendance is 6,601 for standouts include Sounders a match which ends 0-0, with Seattle taking the resulting shootout, 3-1.
Jeff Storrs twice saves Seattle Pacific's season before an 11th-round penalty stop sends the Falcons forward to the NCAA Division II quarterfinals. Ninth-ranked SPU outlasts longtime rival Chico State, 0-0 (8-7), in a first-round game at Memorial Stadium. After 110 scoreless minutes Storrs thwarts the Wildcats attempts to win in rounds 5 and 7. Danny Machado converts the clincher.
Yakima's Summer Yates converts a second-half penalty kick which proves to be the winner for the Orlando Pride in a 3-2 road win over Washington. It's the second straight game-winner for Yates during the unbeaten (3-0-3) Pride's eventual record-setting eight-match win streak. She also scored in a 1-0 home win over San Diego on April 19.
It took just under six hours to whittle the field from 22 teams to one victor at the 14th annual Five-a-Side. And the last team standing is Buchan Bakers, 2-0 winners over Vancouver's Taurus at West Seattle Stadium.
First teams to play in Seahawks Stadium are the Sounders Select Women and Vancouver Breakers, who play prior to the A-League men’s match. Sounders Women win in overtime, 4-3, on Nikki Gamble’s 93rd-minute goal. Seattle native Jodi Campbell scores the historic first goal. Shelby Brownfield and Janelle Munnis contribute the team’s other goals
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, both NCAA Division II and Division III soccer championships are canceled along with all other men's and women's fall sports. Division I makes the same determination on August 13. NCAA President Mark Emmert says the NCAA would prioritize staging championships in winter and spring sports because those were canceled when COVID-19 first spiked across the United States in March.