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Seattle's Hungarians return home with a 3-2 victory over Bay Area league leader Teutonia DC in a U.S. Challenge Cup first round match at Balboa Park. Les Mueller comes off the bench and almost immediately scores what proves to be the winner, beating four defenders in the process. Tommy Major's penalty and Steve Furjesi give the Magyars a 2-nil lead. Teutonia files a protest immediately afterward, claiming referee John McFarlane ended the game five minutes early. The protest is disallowed.
Washington Youth Soccer Association suspends and will expel Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association, effective Dec. 7, leaving the future of 6,500 young player from Kirkland, Redmond and Sammamish in question. The move by the state association comes after Crossfire Premier president Jim Harnasch questioned LWYSA finances and the LWYSA board retaliated by suspending Harnasch’s 15-year-old son. WSYSA seeks to assure parents that "every one of our members will continue to play on their teams as we replace the previous association with a new one."
Johann Noetzel makes five saves during a scoreless regulation and two overtime periods, then another in the decisive fifth round of penalties as Highline takes the 2A state crown at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup. Prior to Noetzel's save, Tony Pyle converted. The Pirates (18-3-0) claim their first state championship since 1981 by beating Mount Rainier (19-2-1) 0-0 5-4.
The Northwestern Association Football League is formed. It features seven clubs: Celtics, Rangers, Rainiers, Shamrocks (all from Seattle) and Tacoma, Everett and Port Blakely. In the inaugural matches, Rangers blast Celtics, 5-1, at Woodland Park and Tacoma posts 2-0 home win over Rainiers.
The Big Ten era for Washington begins with the UW men traveling to Michigan State for their conference opener. It's the first of four regular season games to be played in the eastern time zone. In all the Huskies play in four different time zones before the NCAA tournament. The women's team travels to Maryland and Rutgers (NJ) the following week but has three former Pac-12 opponents in Oregon, USC and UCLA.
Molson's Canadians defeat defending state champion Loyal Realty, 4-2, before 5,000 at Vancouver's Powell Street Grounds.