Eighteen immigrant high-school boys who attend a special public school to learn English are excelling with their feet as a soccer team this spring. The students attend the Secondary Bilingual Orientation Center (BOC) on Seattle's Queen Anne Hill and are coached by Juan Carlos Torres, an instructional assistant at the school. The first-year team is 4-1-2 playing a schedule against high-school junior varsity and "C" teams.

Dozens of soccer players from the Seventies were among the nearly 200 women from Western Washington presented varsity letters as part of a Title IX 50th anniversary celebration. Western fielded women's teams from 1976-80 but four of those teams were classified as club status despite regularly playing against varsity programs. Two won conference championships.

An early 2-nil score fails to hold and the Seattle Hungarians are eliminated in West semifinals of the U.S. Challenge Cup by AAC Teutonia, 4-3, at San Francisco. Les Mueller punches in a couple goals for the lead, but Teutonia ties it by halftime. Jerry Melton's second goal gives Teutonia the lead and Mike Kramer adds a fourth before Heinz Ritter's 85th-minute score.

Whitworth goes out of the NCAA Division III men's tournament but not before the Pirates mount a second-half rally. In the end, St. Norbert College jumps out to a 3-0 lead and hold on to post a 3-2 win in the second-round match at De Pere, Wis. The Bucs pull a goal back at 54:30 through Austin Washington. In the final 10 minutes they pour it on. Skye Henderson scores at 82:06 and Whitworth seems on the verge of tying when time expires. At 16-3-1, Sean Bushey's squad has the most wins since 1989. Nicolas Varlamos, a sophomore from Edmonds, earns third-team All-America after scoring 13 goals.

Three years after starting a varsity program solely with outside funding, Orting claims third place in the boys' 2A state tournament, defeating Cascade, 4-0. Cliff Fries started the team from scratch by staging numerous fundraisers. In 2004, the Cardinals defied odds by reaching the tournament. Now, with 11 seniors and fully-funded by the school district, Orting is on solid ground.

Rain, tifo, away support and a tight contest: The first Cascadia Cup match of the all-MLS era begins with the Sounders and Timbers drawing 1-1 before a Seattle record crowd for a league match (36,593) at Qwest Field. Alvaro Fernandez delivers the first blow in the 52nd minute, but Mamadou Danso answers in the 65th.