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Bill Conterio scores five goals for Buchan Bakers in a 12-3 romp over Harvey’s at White Center while Andy Phillips kicks 4 goals for Scotty’s Fish & Chips in a 4-3 win over Scandia at Woodland Park.
Puget Sound becomes the first school to boast two 300-win coaches as Reece Olney surpasses the milestone with 2-0 win over Willamette. Sean Hamel and Angel Herrera-Flores score on either side of halftime for the Loggers. In 2015, former women's coach Randy Hanson preceded Olney with 300 victories at UPS.
Washington's top two amateur women's teams are merging, with the Hibernian & Caledonian Saints and Seattle Sounders Women forming the Sounders Saints Women. The Saints, operated by Bobby Lane, won the 2003 U.S. Amateur Cup and Pacific Coast League titles under coach Teddy Mitalas. The Sounders Women, owned by Adrian Hanauer, finished as high as second in the W-League Western Conference since forming in 2000. Mitalas will coach the newly merged club.
Seattle area native Michelle Akers-Stahl and other members of the U.S. National women's and men's soccer teams appear at Soccer Blast USA's tour stop at Seattle's Washington State Convention Center. Events include shooting and long-distance contests, obstacle course, skills clinics, youth soccer programs and a celebrity challenge.
In need of a fourth straight win to stay in the MISL playoff hunt, the Tacoma Stars go down, 7-5, at San Diego. Branko Segota scores three fourth-quarter goals as the Sockers pull away from a 3-2 deficit to claim the division title. The Stars will finish 17-31, five fewer wins than their inaugural season.
What had been a difficult season turns disastrous at the Rose Bowl, when the Los Angeles Aztecs become ruthless in the final half-hour in handing the Sounders a record 7-1 defeat. The loss assures Seattle of its first losing season. After John Ryan's penalty kick pulls the Sounders within 2-1 in the 60th minute, a potential equalizer by Ryan is waved off for a handball, and the visitors immediately unravel. Dutch star Johan Cruyff immediately scores to make it 3-1. Within 10 minutes the margin swells to 5-1. Then Cruyff scores again (he also added two assists), and Chris Dangerfield completes his hat trick for the final margin.