Olympia's Kasey Keller is voted the Silver Ball or second-best player at the conclusion of the FIFA Youth World Cup. Keller led the U.S. to a fourth-place finish in Saudi Arabia.

Carlos Farias and the San Diego Flash are ruthless in drubbing the 10-man Sounders, 6-0, in a second-round playoff series opener. Farias scores an opponent record four times, and it’s the worst domestic defeat in Seattle’s A-League era. Chugger Adair strikes first for the host Flash, in the third minute. Once Oliver Heald is sent off, San Diego quickly capitalizes on a Farias long-range shot. He adds a second-half hat trick. It’s San Diego’s third convincing win over Seattle, and a week later in Renton comes another shutout, 1-0, to clinch the series.

Attendance plummets below 10,000 for a regular season game for the first time in nine seasons, with just 4,954 for a lackluster Easter afternoon scoreless draw with San Jose. Ultimately the visitors win in a shootout. At one point the Earthquakes play shorthanded for five minutes before putting a jersey on backup goalkeeper Billy Phillips and asking him to play defender. It’s the first back-to-back scoreless outings to start season since 1977.

Hungarians backer Balint Ducz, his side having dominated the state for the past two years, explores a future in the B.C.-based Pacific Coast League. The Magyars give PCL officials an indication of their potential in beating the Vancouver Pilseners, 4-0, in a friendly. Earlier, they won each major cup in Washington, a second straight Northwest championship and routed Vancouver Molson, 5-0.

Getting goals two minutes apart from Kyle Smith and Sean-Michael Callahan, Seattle Sounders complete a season-opening sweep of rival Portland Timbers. A crowd of over 5,000 at Seahawk Stadium sees Smith and Callahan break open a scoreless deadlock with goals in the 78th and 80th minutes of a 2-0 win. Smith also got the winner one night earlier in Portland, when goalkeeper Preston Burpo suffered a fractured jaw.

Washington remains undefeated and reaches the Husky Classic semifinals by beating California, 1-0. Ward Forrest’s first-half goal, his ninth so far, and freshman Bill Scott’s goalkeeping boost UW to 9-0-2. All nine wins have been by shutout.