At 4:21 a.m. Pacific Time, FIFA executive vice president Harry Cavan announces from Zurich that the 1994 World Cup will be coming to the U.S. Morocco and Brazil finish second and third in the balloting. A gathering of soccer community leaders and players gather with local media at Seattle Pacific University, where coach Cliff McCrath predicts soccer will take “center stage” in the nation by 2000. Husky Stadium is among 18 stadia in 16 cities under consideration to host matches.

The Tacoma Rainiers and Cheney Stadium host the Sounders FC reserves and Orlando City before 2,174. Orlando City prevails, 2-0, while the Rainiers and Sounders evaluate the prospect of perhaps bringing a USL franchise to Pierce County someday.

Dick McCormick assists on a record five goals and Mark Baena scores multiple goals for the sixth time as the playoff-bound Sounders rout Albuquerque, 9-0, for their fourth straight win. McCormick's cross finds Erik Storkson's head for 2-0 in the 26th minute. Four minutes later, he finds Baena for the first of his three goals. Storkson and Patrick Beech, who headed in a McCormick second-half corner, added two goals each.

A resurgent OL Reign humbles Houston, 5-1, in Tacoma for the third win in a row and fourth in six games under interim coach Sam Laity. Bethany Balcer scores her fourth and fifth goals during that stretch, and the Reign has risen from ninth to fifth in the table. Incoming head coach Laura Harvey is in attendance and will now take the handoff from Laity and begin her second stint as head coach of the Reign.

Darian Jenkins returns to the starting lineup for the first time in three months and delivers two goals as Reign FC lights-up Orlando for a season-best goal total, winning 3-1 in a lightning-delayed match at Cheney Stadium.All three goals come in the first 17 minutes, before a two-hour weather delay. Jenkins scores for the first time since the April 4 opener after Bethany Balcer's steal and feed in the 2nd minute. Nine minutes later, Jenkins doubles the lead by smashing her shot off the crossbar. Beverly Yanez tallies in the 17th minute. Some lights are knocked out by a power surge in the 23rd minute, prompting teams and officials to retreat from the field. As the lightning intensifies and downpours begin, fans take refuge in the concourses. At 9:20 p.m. the Reign and Pride return to the pitch to complete the match.

Second-half goals from Bruce Raney and Mike Smith and shutout goalkeeping from Mark Thompson enable Seattle Pacific to achieve its first season sweep of Washington, 2-0, and win the Sounders Cup, symbolic of college supremacy in Seattle. The Falcons also go undefeated (7-0-1) to win their first NCSC championship in six years.