Kirkland's Sam Hiatt scores her first NWSL career goal to send Gotham on its way to a 3-1 home win over Orlando. Hiatt pokes home a loose ball in the 13th minute for the lead in what proves to be Gotham's seventh straight win. Orlando goes on to win the shield and championship.

Attendance plummets below 10,000 for a regular season game for the first time in nine seasons, with just 4,954 for a lackluster Easter afternoon scoreless draw with San Jose. Ultimately the visitors win in a shootout. At one point the Earthquakes play shorthanded for five minutes before putting a jersey on backup goalkeeper Billy Phillips and asking him to play defender. It’s the first back-to-back scoreless outings to start season since 1977.

A pair of Bert Lerch goals propels Seattle Heidelberg to a 3-2 upset win over the Seattle Hungarians in the Northwest final of the U.S. Open Cup at White Center. Ed Carrillo scores the other Heidelberg goal, while Les Mueller, back from playing semipro football, scores twice for the Magyars. For the first time in five years, the Hungarians will not advance out of the Northwest.

FC Seattle Storm hosts Canada’s World Cup-bound national team at Shoreline Stadium five weeks before Mexico ’86. A gathering of 660 fans see Canada prevail, 3-2, on Randy Samuel’s 67th-minute winner. Dale Mitchell and Randy Ragan made it 2-0 before Seattle’s Peter Hattrup and Kevin Iverson countered. Jimmy Gabriel played all 18 of his available players.

More than 600 people attend the Northwest Communities of Burma’s annual soccer tournament at the Wilson Playfields in Kent. A total of 14 teams hailing from all over the Pacific Northwest, are comprised of immigrant refugees from the different ethnic groups of Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. They make headway toward breaking barriers of religion, politics and generations of tribal dispute through one universal language: soccer.

Acme Tyee denies Matheny's Builders a fourth trophy by winning the Puget Sound Power & Light trophy, 3-0, at White Center. Acme becomes the first Scandinavian entry in 25 years to win a state title. Einar Eliasson scores a goal in each half.