The longest championship game in 27 years of NCAA championships ends with a golden goal by UCLA reserve Andy Burke. After 166 minutes 5 seconds, the Bruins finally break through in the eighth overtime period to defeat 10-man American University, 1-0, with the game's only goal coming as Burke scores on a counterattack from 15 yards. Burke had not seen action until the seventh period. The Eagles play the final 37 minutes shorthanded following a red card. A crowd of 5,986 watches Big Kick 2 in the Kingdome. Says UCLA coach Sigi Schmid after the school's first title, "A game like this takes more than perseverance and a lot of faith. As the game drags on, you have to keep pushing, and we did that.”

Peter Hattrup contributes a two-point goal and assist for Kansas City in the deciding Game 5 NPSL finals win over Cleveland, 19-7. Hattrup also starred in the Attack's Game 2 win with a three-point free kick. He is among a handful of Attack players who have been with the team since 1989 in Atlanta.

Michelle Akers scores on a long-range blast as the United States cruises past Denmark, 5-0, in a Goodwill Games semifinal at Long Island, N.Y. While Mia Hamm nets a hat trick and Kristine Lilly assists on three scores, a 35-yard blast from Akers in the 18th minute wows the crowd. The U.S. goes on to beat China, 2-0, in the final.

Major League Soccer's debut is pushed back a year, to 1996, says Alan Rothenberg, U.S. Soccer president and head of the proposed new Division I league. Up to 12 teams are expected to play the first season. Yogi Hutsen, co-chairman of the local MLS bid committee, says it does not appear Seattle will be chosen for a charter franchise unless an adequate grass-field facility is identified. The bid committee effectively disbands after 10 months.

Scott Cairns, Marcus Hahnemann and Sarah Martinez are among eight inductees to the Seattle Pacific University Athletics Hall of Fame. Cairns helped lead the Falcons to NCAA national championship games each of his four years, and came away winning three titles (1983, 1985 and 1986). He graduated as the school record-holder for single-season and career assists, and he was a three-time all-region selection. Hahnemann is the only three-time All-American in any Seattle Pacific team sport. He led the Falcons to the 1993 NCAA Division II championship and still ranks No. 1 on the school's career list for shutouts (46). Hahnemann went on to earn three caps for the U.S. national team and played with Reading and Wolverhampton in the English Premier League. Martinez scored 49 goals and 25 assists in leading SPU to three GNAC titles and its first two trips to the NCAA finals. She as an All-American as a senior.

In the third and deciding game of the Sir Thomas Lipton Cup series, Seattle's St. Mary's defeats St. Anne's, 3-1, to retain the title at Catholic Memorial Field. St. Anne's was the Parochial School League grade school winner.