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Michelle French scores the game's only goal in the Seattle Sounders Women's road victory over the Colorado Force. It is French's first score since coming back from an October 2008 diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. She underwent seven rounds of chemotherapy, followed by radiation treatments, and later finishes as the team's top scorer and an all-W-League selection.
Leah Wymer's hat trick and Ashley Porter's three assists lead Seattle University past Northwest Nazarene, 6-0, at Championship Field. Porter, a senior, becomes the GNAC career leader in assists and goes on to total 14 for the season.
For the second time in three days, goalkeeper James Ward rescues Seattle Pacific's postseason hopes by moving up to forward and bringing the Falcons from behind. After trailing by three goals, SPU ties, 3-3, at Incarnate Word on Ward's second goal with 24 seconds left in regulation. David Smith begins the rally at 84:09, then Ward ties it at 84:47. He returns to goal to make two key overtime saves.
Whitney Lowe's two goals power Central Washington to victory in the Wildcats' first-ever national tournament appearance, 2-1 over Seattle Pacific at Bellingham. Lowe, who had scored just twice during the regular season, hits the target in the ninth and 52nd minutes, the first after a 40-yard dribble and the other on a header from a weak clearance. Scoring in her fifth straight game, Hannah Huesers scores her 13th of the year at 60:05. Huesers finishes her career with 48, one shy of the Falcons' record.
Seattle University picks Tom Pearson to be its new men's head coach just a few weeks before the season begins. Pearson was a student coach at Shoreline Community College and director of development for Washington Youth Soccer. He replaces Tom Goff, who was coach for two years while teaching at Enumclaw High School.
Wenatchee overcomes one final hurdle of adversity to win its first boys' state championship, 1-0 over Tahoma in the 4A final at Puyallup. Without top scorer Luis Navarette (broken leg in semifinal), the Panthers get a 34' goal from Miguel Viramontes and stiff second -half defense. Viramontes, coming off a three-game suspension, flicks home a header from Salvador Chavez's free kick.