By foot and by head, Roger Davies keeps Seattle's season alive with a second-half brace to square the playoff series with Chicago at a game apiece. The Sounders beat the Sting, 2-0, to force a deciding game four days later in the Windy City. It's the Sounders' first win in six games, and it comes against a Sting team that shared the best record in the regular season (23-9) with the Cosmos.

Goals from Mike Gosselin, Chris Dube and Brad Owens fuel Kentwood's 3-2 shocker over Thomas Jefferson in the first round of the state AAA tournament at Federal Way Stadium. Four-time defending state champion Jefferson has won 69 straight games and is unbeaten in 94 (90-0-4). The Conquerors, coming off their first loss of the season, 5-1, to Kennedy in the NPSL title game, build a 2-0 halftime lead on goals by Dube and Gosselin. After TJ's Lawrence Buckley cuts the margin to 2-1, Owens scored the eventual game-winner in the 62nd minute.

Pasco's Three Rivers SC Black stun the Far West Regional U19 girls' field by winning the title and a berth to the USYSA Nationals in Orlando. Three Rivers defeats Oregon's United PDX, 3-1, in the final at Boise. Meanwhile, the Three Rivers U16 boys are regional runners-up.

Seattle area boys varsity high school play begins with four games at Memorial Stadium. Jeff Martin of Ballard notches the historic first goal, but Rainier Beach rallies to win the inaugural contest, 3-1. Other scores on a date dubbed Demonstrate for Soccer Day are Franklin 2:1 Roosevelt Shorecrest 1:0 Cleveland and Shoreline 1:0 West Seattle.

Joan Dunlap's early breakaway stands as the lone goal in FC Ramlosa's 1-0 victory over River City Kickers of St. Louis in the U.S. Open Division championship game before 2,000 at Memorial Stadium. The Seattle team repeats as champion, as does its sister squad, Bellevue Blue Angels. The Blue Angels come from behind to win the over-30 crown, 2-1, versus the Irving Flash of Texas. Dunlap scorers her third goal of the finals in the 13th minute, breaking free just inside the halfway line. Patty Cox earns the shutout. For the Blue Angels, Linda Adams and Marcia Tampourlos combine for both goals. Adams equalizes in the 38th minute, then crosses to Tampourlos for the 68th-minute winner.

OL Reign secures the service of French star striker Eugénie Le Sommer on loan from sister club Olympique Lyonnais. The all-time leading scorer for Lyon and the French national team, Le Sommer, 31, will arrive in Tacoma in mid-June. In 11 seasons with OL, Le Sommer won the French championship 10 times and the UEFA Women’s Champions League seven times.