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Tacoma Goes Overtime to Take Seventh Straight
April 22, 1987

Tacoma wins a record ninth overtime game, a 6-5 victory over Los Angeles, to extend its winning streak to seven games at home. It's the third Stars-Lazers meeting in 10 days, and all are one-goal decisions. Joe Waters scores the OT winner. Rookie Peter Hattrup, in his first game for the Stars, ties the score on a breakaway 5:06 into the second quarter on his first MISL shot.

Morris-Powered Sounders Pound Pumas
August 12, 2024

Behind a brace from Jordan Morris and Albert Rusnak’s goal and two assists the Sounders pound UNAM Pumas, 4-0, to advance to the Leagues Cup quarterfinals. It is Seattle’s biggest winning margin over a Liga MX team and comes two years after defeating Pumas 3-0 to win the Concacaf Champions League. Morris, whose goals both come in the final 32 minutes, hikes his club goal total to 79, tying him with Fredy Montero at No. 2. Over a hectic four-week stretch, Seattle is 10-2-1.

Schefter, Irish Edge UCLA For National Title
December 5, 2004

Yakima’s Annie Schefter converts the third Notre Dame penalty as the Irish win the NCAA championship, 1-1 (4-3), over UCLA in Cary, N.C. The No. 2-ranked Irish (24-1-1) win their second national title.

Schefter Scores in Irish NCAA Win
November 14, 2005

Senior Annie Schefter assists on one goal and scores another in NCAA defending champion Notre Dame’s 3-0 second-round victory over Michigan State. All 12 of Schefter’s career goals have come at home. She finishes her career with 21 assists.

Witzel's Four Goals End Saints' Woes
October 31, 2016

A four-goal outburst from Kyle Witzel is just what Saint Martin's requires to snap a five-game losing streak, 5-1, versus Concordia. It's Witzel's first hat trick and ties the SMU single game record. He scores twice in each half, with his fourth goal making it 4-0 in the 59th minute. The Saints had scored only four goals in their last five contests.

Reign Moves to 7-0-0 Start
May 14, 2014

Although they score the match’s first two goals, the Reign need a winner from Keelin Winters in the 76th minute to remain perfect (7-0-0) after seven starts. Kendall Fletcher and Kim Little score in the first 20 minutes, but FC Kansas City ties it in the second half before Winters nods home the winner from Kiersten Dallstream's cross.

Lowenbrau Zurich's Sharon McMurtry. (Courtesy Soccer America)
1982
1992
Skagit Valley College finished unbeaten (15-0-3) en route to claiming its eighth NWAC crown in 1988. (Courtesy NWAC)
1988
Mireya Grey, a junior at Washington, was a last-minute call-in to the Jamaican national team for the 2019 World Cup. Grey made to start for the Reggae Girlz.(Courtesy Washington Athletics)
2019
1992
1992
Megan Rapinoe is all smiles following her 203rd and final U.S. National Team appearance, Sept. 24, 2023, in Chicago. Rapinoe collects her 73rd international assist in the 2-0 friendly win over South Africa. (Courtesy U.S. Soccer)
2023
Washington won a record 17 games to claim its first NCSC title and NCAA tournament berth in six years. (Courtesy Frank Gallo)
1982
Action from a state league contest between United Natives and Norselander Vikings.
1959
Seattle's Celtics, shown here in 1913, adopted hoops like their Glasgow namesake.
1919