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Portland clinches its first Northwest Collegiate Soccer Conference title and stays perfect (18-0-0) with a 1-0 victory over Seattle Pacific. Woodinville's Trent Schultz sets-up Rob Baarts for the Pilots' goal in the fourth minute, and Olympia's Kasey Keller gets the shutout without making a save. Portland is ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division I and SPU is No. 2 in Division II after entering the game on a seven-game win streak.
A three-goal, first-half barrage takes Seattle Sounders U23s to the top of the Northwest Division with a 3-0 win over North Sound SeaWolves on the final day of the regular season at Franklin Pierce High School. Sean Morris, Aodhan Quinn and Sean Okoli combine to make it 3-nil after 40 minutes. Winners of six straight, Seattle finishes four points in front of Portland and Kitsap. Four days earlier, the U23s staged a late, 2-1 comeback to beat the Pumas in Bremerton. A year earlier, as Tacoma Tide, they were dead last in the division.
Washington Interscholastic Activities Association announces that the boys' state AAA and AA quarterfinals, semifinals and final are moving from Seattle's Memorial Stadium. Bellevue's Sammamish High School will now host. The reasoning: Sammamish's new turf and wider field is more suited to soccer. Memorial has hosted the final since the WIAA tournament's inception in 1975.
For the first time in 37 seasons of varsity play, Washington reaches the men's No. 1 ranking in the NSCAA coaches' poll. Dean Wurzberger's Huskies, who moved up from No. 2, are 5-0-0 and coming off a 2-0 win over No. 8 Rutgers in Portland.
The Sounders add a new Designated Player, signing Brazilian midfielder João Paulo, 28. João Paulo spent the past three seasons with Rio de Janeiro's Botafogo. He joins Nicolás Lodeiro and Raúl Ruidíaz as Seattle's current DPs and is the club's 15th DP since 2009.
Triumph Continental, a U18 team from Edmonds, defeats the U16 Lake Hills Spartans, 4-0, for the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup at West Seattle Stadium.