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Sheryl Williams secures the PacWest title for Seattle University with a penalty kick in the regular season finale at Monmouth, Ore. Williams scores at 56:11 for the fifth-ranked Redhawks' 1-0 victory over Western Oregon. Because SU is in the final year of transition to NCAA membership, it is ineligible for that postseason competition and instead will go to NAIA district playoffs.
Bremerton’s Peewee Association postpones games due to fresh dumping of snow. Disappointed kids bombarded the league office with calls, so the games were played, with the parents marking out the lines on the snow-covered pitches with sand.
El Salvador blanks England, 2-0, for its third straight Amputee World Cup championship at Shoreline Stadium. England had earlier won the tournament's indoor division, defeating El Salvador, 4-2, at Woodinville Indoor Center. Nine teams entered the fourth annual tournament, including a new entry from Russia.
San Jose's Grenadiers end the U.S. Amateur Cup bid by the Seattle Heidelbergs in the regional semifinals, 2-1, in San Jose. Manny Hernandez of the U.S. Olympic team stakes the Grenadiers to an early lead that doubles through Tony Suffle. Tage Christiansen brings the Heidelbergs within a goal with 10 minutes left.
There is over 90 consecutive minutes of scoreless play, but goals in the first minute and the fourth of stoppage time give Tacoma Defiance a 2-0 win at San Jose. Travian Sousa stakes the visitors to the early lead by converting his own rebound, and Juan Alvarez adds late insurance for Tacoma's (12-3-4) record-breaking fifth straight victory.
Renton’s Matt Olson makes a pair of routine saves in his 27 minutes in relief of Sommer, enabling Indiana to defeat Howard, 1-0, in the NCAA championship game at Bloomington, In. Olson had missed all of 1987 with a thumb injury and played in only 8 games prior to replacing Hoosiers starting goalkeeper Juergen Sommer, who sustained a broken nose. Three of the four teams reaching the semifinals feature Washington players. Portland has six key contributors, and South Carolina has Kent’s Mike Gosselin starting on defense.