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Eastside YSA’s U17 Newport Huskies win their sixth straight state championship convincingly, 9-2, over Seattle’s Hillwood Kickers, at Memorial Stadium. Steve Moore nets a hat trick and Ron Dorn adds two goals for Fred Conner’s squad.
Seattle United boys 00 Copa win their third straight Washington State Youth Championship, this time at the U15 level, beating Eastside FC 00 Red, 1-0, at Starfire.
A crowd of 12,355 watches the first indoor game played in Puget Sound. It's a preseason friendly in the Kingdome, a jamboree with Portland and San Jose. A radio station gives away 7,700 of the tickets. Admission $4 and $2 for kids. It costs $200,000 to make the Dome suitable, including the turf field encircled by fiberglass walls and plexiglass.
Kasey Keller keeps a clean sheet as Leicester City claim their first cup in 33 years, defeating Middlesbrough, 1-0, in extra time of League Cup final replay at Hillsborough. Keller, in his first season with the Foxes, denies Boro’s Emerson late on to preserve result. The two sides initially played to a 1-1 draw at Wembley 10 days earlier, with Leicester's Emile Heskey forcing the replay by scoring in 118th minute.
Tatyana Reveles puts Northwest University up early and Kelsey Greene scores and assists during a spree of four second-half goals in a 5-0 romp over Warner Pacific in Kirkland. It's the Eagles eighth straight Cascade Conference win, and a draw with Concordia two days later clinches the CCC regular season title. Concordia avenges the outcome in the postseason final, 1-0, on Nov. 15, taking the automatic NAIA berth.
Two years of pressure from proponents in the U.S. and around the world result in the International Olympic Committee adding women's soccer to the Sumer Games, beginning in 1996 at Atlanta. The IOC votes in Monte Carlo to start with an 8-team tournament.