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Dylan Gaydosh gets the only goal as Stadium wins its first 4A state boys championship, 1-0 over Lake Stevens at Lakewood. Gaydosh, who also won a title at Bellarmine Prep in 2008, stabs home the goal out of a goalmouth scramble in the 30th minute. It's the fourth straight shutout during the tournament for the Tigers and goalkeeper Ian Clark, who makes three saves. It's Stadium's first championship game appearance. Lake Stevens had eliminated Federal Way (playing without 32-goal scorer Kelyn Rowe) in the semifinals.
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.
James Dunn is named the NPSL Defender of the year and is joined on the all-league first team by twin brother and Wichita Wings teammate Jason Dunn. James finished with 128 blocks and 22 goals. Jason was third in league scoring with 203 total points.
Andy Schmetzer scores twice and set-up the NPSL championship-clinching goal for the Cleveland Crunch's 17-15 Game 4 win over St. Louis. Schmetzer, who also supplied two goals in the Game 2 win, plays a ball off the boards to Hector Marino for the deciding goal in the second overtime.
A hot start for Washington soon fizzles with the Huskies's postseason hopes all but snuffed out before mid-September. A 4-2 loss to Div. II Cal State L.A. in Portland is UW's third in a row, coming on the heels of defeats at Santa Clara (1-3) and Stanford (0-2) earlier in the week. Washington's road trip featured six games in eight days, beginning with wins over Fresno State and San Diego State.
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.