Pacific Lutheran's Keeton Heggerness converts two penalty kicks in a 4-0 home defeat of Linfield, which gives Lutes coach John Yorke his 200th win. Yorke is in his 18th season at PLU, and his teams have won or shared the past two Northwest Conference championships.

Mark Baena, after scoring a record 20 goals in an abbreviated first season with the Seattle Sounders, is named MVP of the A-League. Baena joined Seattle seven games into the season from the California Jaguars. In all, he scored 24 goals to lead the league.

It's a storybook start to professional soccer in Seattle. A near-capacity crowd of 12,132 comes to their feet less than two minutes after kickoff as Willie Penman scores the opener vs. Denver. John Rowlands adds two more goals before intermission. After the final whistle of the 4-0 victory, Sounders players gather in the circle to applaud and wave to the fans who, in turn, roar their approval once again.

Andy Rose finds the winner four minutes into stoppage time, and Seattle wins its fourth in a row, 3-2 over Real Salt Lake. It's the seventh time the Sounders have tied or won on a goal scored in the final 10 minutes. Lamar Neagle and Obafemi Martins, on his 13th goal, put the hosts in front 2-1, before halftime. Rose collects a loose ball in the box and fires it past Nick Rimando.

Wade Webber's success in guiding the Tacoma Defiance in terms of both development and competitive success is rewarded with a promotion. Webber is elevated to Sounders FC director of development while Henry Brauner moves from player development VP to Seattle's technical director. Webber was 38-24-22 in three seasons, taking Tacoma to the MLS NEXT Pro playoffs in his final two seasons.

Whitman opens its first East Coast road trip by blasting John Jay College, 5-1, in New York City. The Blues score four times in the final 33 minutes to pull away from a 1-1 tie. Erick Perez-Cuellar assists on the first and scores the third. Whitman also plays Rutgers-Camden (1-2) and Stockton (0-1) before returning home.