Washington has the highest per capita number of adult soccer players in the nation, reports the Washington State Soccer Association. Membership has more than quadrupled in the past five years. More than 11,000 men and 2,200 women play on some 700 teams statewide. Co-Rec teams has 400 players in the Seattle area and a variety of indoor and other leagues have organized. In addition, over 69,000 youth are registered with Washington State Youth Soccer Association.

Sebastien Le Toux and the Sounders emerge atop USL with a 4-0 trouncing of California at Qwest Field. Seattle, rebounding from its U.S. Open Cup exit just two days earlier, is up 2-nil after 25 minutes on a pair of Le Toux goals. He then gets his 10th goal of the year to tie for the USL lead at 61'. The Sounders are now one point ahead of both Portland and Montreal with all three teams playing their final regular season match on the road.

Jason Dunn fires home his 10th goal, sending the Sounders on their way to a 3-1 win over Colorado and clinching the APSL regular season title in the club's first year. David Hoggan and Chance Fry score second-half goals for Seattle's (13-6-0) third win in a row. Dunn, second in league scoring, strips the Foxes' Robin Fraser and beats Mark Dodd in the 31st minute.

Charlie Kosakoff puts Washington ahead to stay early in the second half, and Alex Hall seals a return to the College Cup with a 3-1 win at No. 4 Maryland. It's the Huskies' fourth straight road victory in NCAA tournament play, making them only the second team to do so since the bracket expanded to 48 teams in 2001. UW trails for 19 minutes, until Richie Aman's 38' equalizer. Kosakoff gives the visitors the lead in the 55th minute, and Aman assists Hall in the 70th. Wins at Oregon State, No. 5 SMU and No. 12 Stanford preceded Maryland. The Terrapins had ended Washington's Big Ten title hopes on Halloween, 1-0.

Dana Garner scores a hat trick in his third straight game for Seattle Pacific, a 13-0 rout of Montana State Billings at Interbay. After scoring four times in the first nine outings, Garner now has 10 goals in the last four, including earlier hat tricks vs. Chico State (7-1) and Northwest Nazarene (13-1).

Green Lake Bowl denies Buchan Bakers a double by coming from 2-nil down to score three second-half goals to win the George Washington Knockout Cup, 3-2, at Catholic Memorial Stadium.