Stephen King scores the game-winning goal in the fifth minute of overtime to give the Seattle Sounders FC a 2-1 comeback win over the Houston Dynamo in a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup semifinal at Starfire Sports Stadium before 4,895. Nate Jaqua, playing with a bandaged head since the 10th minute, sends the match into overtime with a goal in the 89th minute. King beats Gig Harbor's Tally Hall for the winner. Seattle dominates, with a 16-2 advantage in shots, 12-0 after halftime. Three shots hit the post or crossbar. The win is part of a nine-game unbeaten run (6-0-3) across all competitions between June 13 and July 25.

After dispatching the defending national champion, the Woodinville Specters gain passage to the McGuire Cup finals with a 3-2 win over the Las Vegas Nationals in the USYSA Region IV U19 boys' title match at Albuquerque. The Specters had unseated Southern California's Fram-Culver, 2-1, in the West semifinal. In all, they won six times in three days, in temperatures reaching the 90s. In the girls' U16 final, South Snohomish County Zodiax edge Cal North's Pleasanton Pursuit, 1-0. They swept through the regional by outscoring their opposition by a 17-2 margin.

Morgan Weaver plays in her first NWSL final and the Portland Thorns claim their league-best third title with a 2-0 win over Kansas City in Washington, D.C. Weaver nearly scores, rattling the crossbar in the 59th minute.

Issaquah reclaims the 3A girls state crown by stunning Seattle Prep with bang-bang goals in the opening minutes of a 4-1 victory at Lakewood. Lauren Maris hits the Panthers in the first minute, and Elissa King makes it 2-nil in the third. Youth international Kate Deines, who missed the 2005 final loss, gets a goal early in the second half along with Ali Leale. Prep, reaching a final for the first time since 1991, averts a shutout with a late goal from Rachelle Ollee. Issaquah finishes undefeated (19-0-2).

Seattle's new Major League Soccer roster gets its first player with the signing of Sounders forward Sebastien Le Toux, 24. In his first season in Seattle, Le Toux had led Seattle to the USL championship and earned league MVP honors after scoring 10 goals. The Frenchman had been courted by other MLS teams.

Cuban defector Maykel Galindo, 24, is cleared to play for the Sounders by U.S. Soccer and starts In the final regular season game versus Montreal (1-0). Galindo, who's been in training for several weeks since his defection July 7, plays 67 minutes.