Kasey Keller is named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year for an unprecedented third time after posting nine shutouts, including five in the final round of World Cup qualifying. Earlier in the month, Keller picked up his second Honda Player of the Year.

Gig Harbor’s Tally Hall earns his record 12th shutout as San Diego State draws, 0-0, at Stanford, all but assuring the Aztecs of their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1989. Hall will go on to finish second nationally with a 0.49 goals against average, also a school record. SDSU falls to eventual NCAA champion UC Santa Barbara, 2-0, in the tournament’s first round.

Todd Sabrowski's free kick early in overtime gives 5th-ranked Whitworth a 2-1 victory over No. 4 Trinity (Tex.) in an NCAA Division III quarterfinal at Whitworth Field. Trinity goes up 1-0 in the 52nd minute, and the Pirates wait until there is 7:15 left in the game to pull level. Chris Johnson is on the end of a combination starting with Ali Seyedali finding Niko Varlamos. Sabrowski scores his first free kick of the season from 23 yards. By winning its 13th in a row, Whitworth becomes the first team from Washington to reach a D3 semifinal.

Kasey Keller makes a point-blank save in extra time and another in the penalty-kick tiebreaker, enabling the USMNT to win its third Gold Cup over Panama 0-0 (3-1) in East Rutherford, N.J. In all, Keller made five saves to earn the clean sheet. He stops the first Panama shootout attempt by Luis Tejada. Two later attempts hit the crossbar and sail high.

Erin Williams makes four saves to collect her 19th shutout of the season as Puget Sound eliminates Emory from the NCAA Division III tournament, 2-0, in a second-round game in Atlanta. The 8th-ranked Loggers get the only goal they need in 41st minute, Megan Shivers heads in Elizabeth Pitman's corner kick. It is Pitman's record 14th assist. Adrienne Folsomput the Loggers beyond reach in the 75th minute.

James Coggan rises from the bench to score the winner and Kellen Rosten denies a penalty kick as Seattle Pacific effectively ends the NCAA Division II championship reign of crosstown rival Seattle University, 1-0, before 600 at Interbay Stadium. Coggan's header from a Matt Kemper free kick breaks the stalemate in the 61st minute. Two minutes earlier, Rosten saves Alex Chursky's penalty attempt and Cam Weaver sends the rebound over the bar. SPU, with its first win in the series since 2000, all but clinches a postseason berth while denying SU.

Lamar Neagle's second-half penalty kick proves the difference as Thomas Jefferson wins its record seventh 4A boys' crown, 2-1, against Pasco at Sumner. The Raiders trailed after 28 minutes on Bryce Wilson's opener for the Bulldogs. Nine minutes later TJ equalized when Tyler Hanson put home Brand Sprague's free kick. Neagle's penalty comes in the 43rd minute and is enough for his team's 10th win in a row and first title since 1994.

Marcus Hahnemann makes his World Cup Qualifer debut by posting a road shutout, 0-0, for the USMNT at Guatemala City. Hahnemann stops five shots, none bigger than a diving left-handed swat of a Guatemala effort in the 71st minute.

Vancouver, Washington's Tina Frimpong Ellertson makes her first appearance for the USWNT in Portland versus Ukraine (7:0). Ellertson is a recent University of Washington graduate now playing forward for the Sounders Women.

Seattle Pacific knocks out top-ranked Metro State via penalty kicks in the regional championship game at Interbay Stadium, 0-0 (5-4), with Shannon Lovejoy hitting the decisive kick. The 2nd-ranked Falcons become the first GNAC program to reach a women's NCAA Division II semifinal. Jennifer Burns makes four for her third straight postseason shutout. The Roadrunners' (23-1-0) 30-goal scorer, Kylee Hanavan, shoots wide left in the second round of the tiebreaker. Meanwhile, SPU converts all five.

Camas becomes the first girls' team from southwest Washington to claim a state big school championship, dethroning defending champion Issaquah, 2-0, at Harry Lang Stadium. Christina Stulbarg scores in the third minute and assists on Taylor Wehring's clincher in the 68th. It's Stulberg's eighth goal in the last eight outings, and Amanda Johnson makes seven saves for the Papermakers (18-0-2). The Eagles are without star Kate Deines, who left for U16 youth national team duty after scoring the overtime winner in Issaquah's semifinal victory over Cedarcrest.

Spokane wins its fifth in a row at the expense of Northwest Division rival Yakima in a card-marred match at Marquette Stadium. The Reds take a 1-nil lead in the 59th minute through Maykel Schafer, but then the referee issues three red cards over the next few minutes: two to the Shadow and one to Yakima. Although shorthanded, the Shadow ties it at 79' on a Manuel Arceo goal and wins it two minutes later when Brett Hite scores.

Roger Levesque's second-half goal gives the Seattle Sounders a much-delayed, playoff-clinching, 2-1 victory at Atlanta. Seattle had blown leads in four consecutive games and gone winless (0-2-5) for more than a month. Leighton O'Brien's header puts the visitors in front, only to be caught by the Silverbacks in the 54th minute. Nine minutes later, Levesque gets his team-leading sixth goal after Taylor Graham's initial shot rebounds off the left post.

Three goals in the first 33 minutes send Whitworth on its way to the NCAA Division III third round with a 4-0 spanking of Redlands at home. Chris Johnson's first of two goals comes in the 20th minute, and Niko Varlamos and Matt Friesen quickly increase the lead.

The third annual All Nations Cup final is won by the United States, 1-0, in double overtime against Brazil at Starfire. Organized by Sister Communities, participation has nearly tripled since the first year, to 33 teams made up of Northwest athletes representing their native countries.

For the first time in the program’s 15-year history Gonzaga is going to the NCAA women's tournament. Shannon Stiles guides the Bulldogs to an at-large berth after finishing a best-ever third in the WCC. They will meet 16th-ranked Southern California in Fullerton. GU may be getting in at the expense of Washington State, which tied for fifth in the Pac-10 and was 2-0-1 vs. tournament-bound teams.

Four adult teams from Washington win Veterans Cup crowns in Wilmington, N.C. Northwest Connection in the Women's Over-40 division, Who Cares in Women's Over-55, Tri-Alliance in Men's Over-40 and Forza in Women's Over-30.

Seattle Pacific completes a fourth straight GNAC campaign virtually unscathed by beating Seattle University 3-0 at Interbay. The Falcons get a season-high seven saves from Jennifer Burns in recording their 27th shutout over a 44-game (40-0-4) conference unbeaten run. Shannon Lovejoy scores her third goal in two games after a brace vs. Central Washington midweek.

Leah Wymer's hat trick and Ashley Porter's three assists lead Seattle University past Northwest Nazarene, 6-0, at Championship Field. Porter, a senior, becomes the GNAC career leader in assists and goes on to total 14 for the season.

Hope Solo's season with the U.S. Women's National Team finishes unblemished with a 3-0 shutout of Mexico in Charleston, S.C. Solo makes five saves. She does not allow a goal in any of her seven matches in 2005, her first extended run as the starter in goal.

Seattle Pacific, getting a first-half header from Colin Rigby and a late score by Jeff Hallenbeck, wins its sixth in a row, ousting Sonoma State from the NCAA Division II tournament, 2-0, at Carson, Ca. It's the fourth straight shutout and 11th overall for Kellen Rosten, who makes seven saves, including a second-half breakaway. The Falcons extend host Cal State Dominguez Hills to overtime two days later, falling 2-1 on a Kei Kamara goal.

A Bobby McAlister brace gives Seattle University its 16th straight win to open the season. The Redhawks, also unbeaten in 24 games (22-0-2) dating to Nov. 9, 2003, defeat Fresno Pacific, 3-1, at Chico, Ca. Chico State ends the SU run two days later.

For the second match in a row, Roger Levesque levies the decisive blow, and for the second year in a row the Sounders send the Timbers out of the USL 1 playoffs. Seattle gets goals from Levesque in either half to beat Portland, 2-0, at Starfire Stadium and 3-0 on aggregate. Levesque scored the winner in the second minute of the first leg two days earlier. He strikes in the fifth minute of the second game and leaves no doubt with another goal at 54'.

The Kelso City Council agrees, with certain stipulations, to allow the Kelso Soccer Club to build a soccer field complex on a 9-acre stretch along the Cowlitz River. With a land-use agreement in hand, the soccer club applies for a U.S. Soccer grant, which the club estimates will be $284,000. If the soccer club is awarded the money, the fields should be ready for play by fall 2007.

Brett Hite completes a hat trick in just six minutes of the second half, but it comes too late for the Spokane Shadow as they fall, 4-3, to the Cascade Surge in Salem, Ore. The Surge had clinched the PDL Northwest Division by blasting the Shadow, 5-1, in Spokane nine days earlier. This proves to be end of the club's 10-season run.

A land swap involving King County, Lake Washington Technical College and Lake Washington Youth Soccer results in 35-acre Sixty Acres Park South transformed into eight new soccer fields in Redmond. Sixty Acres North already features 17 fields over about 60 acres.

Roger Levesque's 90th-minute goal in the second leg sends the Sounders to the USL 1 final with a 2-1 road win over the defending champion and top-seeded Montreal Impact. After a 2-2 draw in the first leg, Seattle wins the series 4-3 on aggregate. Despite missing starters Zach Scott, Leighton O'Brien and Maykel Galindo, the Sounders strike first on Brent Whitfield's rebound follow at 59'. Charles Gbeke ties at 72', his third goal of the series. With overtime looming, Levesque's shot from 20 yards deflects off a defender's foot and dips behind Montreal keeper Greg Sutton for the game-winner at 89:48.

In his 262nd and final game, Scott Jenkins strikes the deciding shootout penalty kick in seventh round, giving the Sounders the USL 1 Championship over the Richmond Kickers, 1-1 (4-3) before 8,011 at Qwest Field. Preston Burpo's six saves in regular play to earn game MVP. Burpo ends his ninth season with a club record 46 shutouts (38 in league play). Cuban defector Maykel Galindo sent the game into extra time with his 73rd minute equalizer, his first goal for Seattle. It was also the final game for retiring assistant coach Jimmy Gabriel.

Seattle Pacific's dream season is shattered suddenly 3 minutes into overtime of the NCAA Division II women's championship game by Nebraska-Omaha, 2-1, in Wichita Falls, Tex. Megan Lienhard's 8th-minute goal staked SPU to the lead, albeit briefly, as UNO tied it two minutes later. Featuring 13 in-state players, the Falcons, unbeaten until the final, came from behind to edge Carson-Newman, 3-2, in the semifinal on Carolyn Nason's header from a corner. SPU finished 20-1-4 in just its fifth season of existence.

A small group of Sounders fans organizes in Seahawks Stadium's Section 113, adjacent to the players' entrance tunnel. They beat a drum, sing, wave flags and call themselves the Emerald City Supporters. Approximately two dozen members make the first bus trip to Portland.

Hope Solo keeps a clean sheet versus Germany as the USWNT wins the Algarve Cup, 1-0, in Faro, Portugal. Solo, 23, and playing for Olympique Lyonnais, makes two saves and does not allow a goal in her three tournament starts. She goes on to start seven games altogether in 2005, all shutouts.

Longview's Lisa Sari starts all 25 games in holding midfield for Portland, including the NCAA Division I final, a 4-0 triumph over UCLA. It was the Pilots' second College Cup championship in four seasons. Sari previously played for Tacoma's FC Royals and Mark Morris High School. Joining her on the UP squad is Gold Bar's Katie Brown.

Goals less than three minutes apart separate No. 2 Seattle Pacific from No.13 UC San Diego in the NCAA Division II Far West Region final, 2-0, at Interbay. Meredith Teague and Sarah Martinez score early in the second half. Teague’s 35-yard cross floats beyond the Toreros keeper and in. Martinez nets her 16th goal in the 54th minute from the right edge of the box. SPU has never previously made it past the second round of the national tournament. Martinez also scored the overtime winner in a first-round victory over Chico State.

A less experienced side featuring Bellevue's Marcus Hahnemann in his first appearance for the USMNT in nine years, beats Cuba, 4-1, in its Gold Cup opener before 15,831 at Qwest Field. Cuba went ahead in the 18th minute. Clint Dempsey scores shortly before halftime. Landon Donovan comes on as a substitute to put the U.S. in front on an 87th-minute free kick. Costa Rica defeats Canada, 1-0, in the other half of the doubleheader.

Kevin Murray assists on a record four goals and scores a hat trick as Pacific Lutheran overwhelms Willamette, 9-0. Murray, the NWC leader in goals (15) and assists (11), is later voted conference offensive player of the year.

Paula French of Tacoma is inducted into Western Washington's Hall of Fame after scoring 19 goals and going 49-5-5 during her career (1982-85). French also played for Cozars, a regional and national power amateur club.

After drawing overflow crowd of 3,204 for 4-2 win over Portland, Seattle Sounders owner Adrian Hanauer says he will consider moving future matches to Tukwila to create more intimacy. Starfire CEO Chris Slatt said he would love to discuss the possibility of becoming the home stadium of the Sounders, who were forced to change venues because of conflicting Gold Cup games at Qwest Field.

Shannon Lovejoy delivers the golden goal 6on a penalty kick :17 into overtime, extending No. 2-ranked Seattle Pacific’s win streak to 11 games to open the season with a 2-1 victory over Western Washington at Interbay. Lovejoy’s through ball to Samantha Hufford opens the scoring in the 35th minute, but Western rallies in the dying seconds of regulation to force extra time on Katie Warner’s 22-yard shot over Jennifer Burns. SPU has not lost in its last 48 regular-season games (46-0-2) and is unbeaten in its past 36 GNAC contests (35-0-1).

Teresa Fish makes nine saves as Western Washington holds Seattle University to scoreless home draw. Fish, who blanks Central Washington two days later, finishes with four shutouts in her final four games as a Viking and finishes with a career record 31. She plays all but 26 minutes of her final three seasons. The Redhawks had scored 13 goals in their previous three games.

Northwest University hires Erin Redwine (née Roberts) as the Eagles' coach for their inaugural season in 2006. A native of Issaquah, Redwine played for Montana, Seattle Pacific (captain for its first season) and the Sounders Women.

Hillary Heath of Garfield and George John of Shorewood are named Washington's Gatorade Soccer Players of the Year. Heath scored 36 goals and 16 assists in her career at Seattle's Garfield High and was KingCo 4A co-MVP and all-state. She will attend Stanford. John scored 14 goals and had 10 assists for the Thunderbirds last spring, earning All-WesCo South honors for the second straight year. He committed to Washington.

Despite a cold rain Cortney Kjar celebrates Puget Sound's senior day with three goals in a 4-0 victory over Pacific. It's one of seven multi-goal games, including two hat tricks, for Kjar. The Loggers win their 10th straight and finish NWC play undefeated (15-0-1). Kjar will finish her season with 22 goals for the second year in a row and a record 58 career goals.

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.

Katie Wullbrandt converts in the ninth round of penalty kicks to lift Puget Sound past Macalester and into an NCAA Division III quarterfinal berth in Chicago. Neither team could find the back of the net for 110 minutes of regulation and two overtimes. After Erin Williams's save in the top of the ninth round, Wullbrandt scores to clinch advancement, 0-0 (8-7). Williams makes five saves for her 20th consecutive shutout and 50th of her career. Puget Sound (20-0-2) has not allowed a goal since the opening game Sept. 10. The Loggers fall to Chicago, 1-0 in overtime, in the quarterfinals.

The CONCACAF Gold Cup will hold first-round group play at Qwest Field, with doubleheaders to be played on a grass surface July 7 and 9. The teams and pairings are to be determined in March.

Cuban defector Maykel Galindo, 24, is cleared to play for the Sounders by U.S. Soccer and starts In the final regular season game versus Montreal (1-0). Galindo, who's been in training for several weeks since his defection July 7, plays 67 minutes.

Bruce Raney and Sergio Soriano, the goalscorer and goalkeeper, respectively, of Seattle Pacific's first NCAA championship team are inducted into Falcon Legends Hall of Fame. SPU was the state's first national champion in 1978 with Raney scoring the overtime winner and fellow freshman Soriano getting the shutout in 1-0 victory over Alabama A&M. Soriano graduated as the career shutouts leader (42) and Raney still holds career goals record (68).

Shorecrest sends retiring coach Teddy Mitalas out a winner, taking the boys' 3A state championship, 1-0 over Ferndale at Sumner. An own goal in the 40th minute accounts for the only goal after the Scots had won their semifinal over Mount Rainier also 1-nil. Mitalas's 17-year run ends as he watches from a restaurant patio across the street from Sunset Chev Stadium he had been red-carded from the semifinal.

A longtime park that is transformed into a much-need 54-acre state-of-the art athletic facility celebrates its grand opening as Starfire Sports. On its first official weekend, 96 soccer teams and 62 softball teams from around the Pacific Northwest compete in tournaments at the $14 million complex. Local officials, including King County Executive Ron Sims and Tukwila Mayor Steve Mullet, turn out for a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Known historically as Tukwila's Fort Dent Park, Starfire is the largest artificial-surface soccer complex in the U.S, and altogether it features eight fields plus four softball diamonds. An 80,000-square-foot indoor athletic center also holds the two indoor soccer fields. CEO Chris Slatt envisions Starfire, a non-profit organization, being open to people of all backgrounds and abilities, supporting free programs for underprivileged kids. Some training programs are conducted by coaches sent from Manchester United.

Nik Besagno of Maple Valley and Preston Zimmerman of Pasco are named to the U.S. National Team roster for the FIFA U17 World Championship in Peru. Zimmerman, who plays for Crossfire Premier while Besagno, now with Real Salt Lake, played in two games and Zimmerman started all four as the Americans advanced to the quarterfinals.

Nik Besagno is named Parade Magazine High School Player of the Year. Besagno will graduate from Edison Academy in Florida in a few days. Earlier he attended Kennedy High in Burien.

Seattle University's Bobby McAlister is named the 2004 NCAA Division II Men's Soccer Player of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. McAlister set SU and Great Northwest Athletic Conference season records for goals (22), points (49) and game-winning goals (11) while leading the Redhawks to a 22-0-1 record and the school's first Div. II national title. He scored both game-winning goals in the Redhawks' two matches at the Division II Final Four in December.

Seattle drops a 2-0 decision to the Timbers in Portland in third round of the U.S. Open Cup. "It's a $30-, $40- or $50-thousand loss for us," says Bart Wiley, Sounders assistant general manager. "It's very disappointing, especially after we just thumped them."

Carolyn Nason's goal with 19 minutes remaining caps a two-goal comeback and sends Seattle Pacific into the NCAA Division II women's soccer championship game with a 3-2 victory over Carson-Newman. The unbeaten (20-0 4) and No. 2-ranked Falcons trail 2-1 before Shannon Lovejoy’s penalty kick in the 59th minute. In the 71st minute, Nason heads in a corner kick from Meredith Teague. It is Lovejoy's fifth successful penalty of the season, and the goal makes her the school and GNAC career goals leader with 42.

Preston Zimmerman of Pasco scores the late winner as the U.S. opens its U17 World Championships by beating North Korea, 3-2, in Chiclayo, Peru. Fellow Washingtonian Nik Besagno's pass enables Zimmerman to turn and score from six yards following a corner kick in the 72nd minute.

A court ruling returns control of the Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association to is original board and executive director by way of a temporary restraining order. The Washington State Youth Soccer Association had suspended effective Dec. 7, 2004. That meant the association couldn't compete in state-sanctioned matches. LWYSA serves 6,500 youth and operates 16 Eastside soccer fields.

In what locals believe is the first organized soccer played in tiny Oysterville in over a hundred years, a boys and girls first grade-kindergarten match opens Ocean Beach Youth League's season. At the turn of the 19th century the sport was quite popular in Oysterville and surround Willipa Bay communities, with teams taking on all-comers from the Peninsula, Pacific County, and from across the Columbia in Oregon.

Gonzaga's late-season surge continues as the Bulldogs blank San Francisco, 3-0 in the final regular season game at Martin Field. Beth Drollinger and Nanda McCormick notch first-half goals and Jamie Blanche adds another in the second half. Ashley Haugen's five saves earn her sixth straight shutout and 11th of the season, a program record. Gonzaga also sets a program record with its 12th win and has not allowed a goal since Oct. 9, going unbeaten (3-0-3) during that span.

Kasey Keller earns the shutout as 15,109 see the USMNT struggle to put away Canada, 2-0, in Gold Cup Group B play at Qwest Field. Canada gifts the U.S. an own goal early in the second half, and Landon Donovan tallies a header in added time. Keller, playing his first competitive game in Seattle, is rarely tested. The win assures the USMNT of advancing to the quarterfinals. Bruce Arena used 22 of his 23 players in the two Seattle games.

Goals from Ian Chursky and Cam Weaver propel Seattle's Hibernian & Caledonian Saints to victory in the U.S. Amateur Cup final in Frisco, Tex. Jimmy McAlister's Hibs & Caley hold off Baltimore Allied, 2-1, to become the third Washington side to win the competition. Chursky opens the scoring in the 32nd minute, and Weaver doubles it on an assist from Pat Doran in the 63rd.

The second annual Kick HIV/AIDS Away tournament brings 16 teams to Tukwila to compete but, more importantly, to learn about HIV/AIDS awareness and have an opportunity to be tested for the disease. Fourteen of the entries are teams with players from African countries and the Caribbean. Over 100 players commit to being tested over the two weekends of the tournament, hosted by Public Health — Seattle & King County.

Completing a run of six straight shutouts to end the season, Tahoma takes the girls' 4A state championship, 2-0, over previously unbeaten Richland at Lakewood. Whitney Gilson and Daniela Gonzalez score in each half for the Bears, who won titles in 1986 and 2001. It was Tahoma's 15th clean sheet and came against a Bombers team that had scored 82 goals. Jodi Palmer has 12 complete shutouts.

Whitworth comes up short in its bid to reach the NCAA Division III final, falling to Minnesota's Gustavo Adolphus, 2-1, in semifinal at Greensboro, N.C. Skye Henderson scores for the Pirates. Their first loss in 18 games concludes their best-ever season, setting records for total victories (19) and winning percentage (.886).

Cam Weaver and Bobby McAlister lead Seattle University to its fifth straight win over crosstown rival 9th-ranked Seattle Pacific, 2-1 at Championship Field. Weaver puts SU up at 17' on a cross from Santa Maria Rivera. In the 64th minute, McAlister dribbles past several defenders before firing from 17 yards and a 2-nil lead. The defending NCAA champion Redhawks are 8-0-1 vs. the Falcons since 2000.

A member of the Cuba National Team, later named as Maykel Galindo, defects during his team's stay in Seattle for the Gold Cup. The player got on an evening bus in North Seattle. The driver, despite a language barrier, realized the man had an immigration issue and contacted Seattle police. A Spanish-speaking officer confirmed Galindo was indeed asking for asylum.

Carmen Anderson heads home a first-half corner kick as Washington State wins the Apple Cup, 1-0, to complete a winless Washington campaign at Husky Soccer Field. Losing their last 10 in a row, the Huskies finish 0-17-3, 13 of those losses by one goal. UW had reached the NCAA quarterfinal the previous season and posted seven consecutive seasons at .500 or above, including five postseason appearances.

Nikolas Besagno of Maple Valley, is taken with the No. 1 overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft by expansion franchise Real Salt Lake. Besagno was chosen by RSL coach John Ellinger, who earlier had coached him at the U.S. U17 Youth Residency program in Florida. Just two months past his 16th birthday, Besagno is the second-youngest player ever drafted by MLS. Earlier, the midfielder attended Kennedy High School and played for F.C. United. His brother Jacob was a member of the Seattle University team that won the 2004 NCAA Division II championship. Washington's C.J. Klaas, a two-time All-American, was chosen 32nd overall by San Jose, and Tim Merritt, a graduate of Tacoma's Bellarmine Prep, was 48th overall to D.C. United.

A plan by Eastside FC to install artificial turf at Bellevue's Robinswood Park by increasing user fees receives support from the city. Bellevue's City Council approves funding for an engineering plan to get the project going, with a target completion of 2007.

Tina Thompson (Farley) of Seattle, an all-district midfielder and championship skier, is inducted into Whitman University's Hall of Fame. Thompson, after scoring 17 goals as a sophomore, capped her soccer career by leading Whitman to its first-ever berth in the NAIA West Coast Regionals in 1990. She was the 1991 Whitman Female Athlete of the Year.

Jason Bjorgo assists on a record five goals as Evergreen rebounds from a loss to swamp Cascade, 8-0, in Olympia. Bjorgo scores in his next outing, an overtime win over Warner Pacific.

Welton ignites a three-goal second half as the Seattle Sounders come back to beat Minnesota 3-1 away & extend their unbeaten run to 10 games (7-0-3) in league and 11 in all competitions.

Mick McCarthy's Sunderland, bound for England's Premiership after handily winning the Championship, visits Qwest Field for a friendly with the Sounders. A season-high crowd of 8,502 sees the Black Cats score late to win, 1-0.