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Tacoma's abbreviated MASL season comes to a close in the playoffs and on the road, as always. All 13 regular season and postseason games have been away from home due to COVID-19 restrictions, and yet the Stars go 4-7 and take eventual champion San Diego to overtime in both playoffs. They fall to the Sockers for the second time in three nights, 6-5, at Ontario, Ca. Game 1 of quarterfinals had an identical score.
A huge crowd estimated at more than 8,000 jams into Upper Woodland to witness the battle for first place in the Northwestern League. Todd Dry Dock, behind a goal and assist from Rudy Dernac, trims Electro Dentists, 2-1.
Getting a goal and assist from both Kourtney Guetlein and Kaitlyn Johnson, Washington State scores four first-half goals and completes a road sweep of Colorado and Utah with a 4-2 win over the Utes. Johnson also had the winner in the 2-1 verdict over Colorado. WSU earns the program's first national ranking, No. 19, the following week.
Neil Megson is named A-League Coach of the Year after leading the Sounders to the Pacific Division title, their first since 1994. Seattle went 18-7-3 for it's best win percentage in Megson's five years. A day earlier, Greg Howes won Rookie of the Year honors and Darren Sawatzky was named first team all-league. Howes, a Tacoma native who attended Oregon State, led the team with 17 goals and 41 points. In his first season back home, Sawatzky had 16 goals.
Deka DeWitt delivers the game’s only goal with four minutes left in overtime to give Washington State a 1-0 win over Washington in Pullman. It’s the Cougars’ first win in the series since 1992 and ends the Huskies’ Pac-10 title hopes.
An early counterattack goal from Gerard McGlynn stakes Seattle Pacific to an early lead that is never relinquished as the Falcons silence a capacity crowd of 4,000 and top-ranked Tampa's potent attack, 1-0, to claim the NCAA Division II championship. Bill Glandon made seven saves as the Spartans were shut-out at home for the first time in three years.