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Avenging its elimination a year before, Tacoma Tide FC upset the Fresno Fuego before over 3,000 hostile fans, 3-0, in the PDL Western Conference playoffs. Daniel Scott’s header in the 19th minute was all the Tide needed for its first postseason victory. Spencer Shomaker’s 10th goal of the season came in the 77th minute and Chase Tangney closed out the scoring. Vancouver Whitecaps Residency would defeat Tacoma in the West final, 4-1, the following day.
Second-half goals from Bruce Raney and Mike Smith and shutout goalkeeping from Mark Thompson enable Seattle Pacific to achieve its first season sweep of Washington, 2-0, and win the Sounders Cup, symbolic of college supremacy in Seattle. The Falcons also go undefeated (7-0-1) to win their first NCSC championship in six years.
Mercer Island's Denise Bender, a defender for the University of Washington's club program, is voted to the NSCAA All-America team. Bender becomes the first player, male or female, from a state collegiate program to be recognized as an All-American.
Seattle University announces all varsity sports will be begin operating as NAIA members beginning in the fall, dropping from NCAA Division I and the West Coast Conference. Initially, SU President Rev. William Sullivan had announced April 3 that the Chieftains would go Division III. Sullivan had questioned pouring “hundreds of thousands of dollars into a programing which 140 students are participating.”
Nick Miele's blast with six minutes to go completes a comeback, beats Austin, 3-2, and clinches a USL playoff berth for Sounders 2 in the team's first season. After falling behind, 2-1, Ashani Fairclough's first goal brings Seattle level with the Aztex seconds before halftime. The winner comes as Miele times his run to meet Aaron Long's chip and score his third goal. S2 takes the sixth and final playoff slot in the penultimate game of the regular season.
Detection of an irregular heartbeat ends Clint Dempsey's season. Dempsey had scored eight goals in 17 games for the Sounders, including a hat trick at Orlando City three weeks earlier.