Seattle's Paul Holocher guides UC Santa Cruz into the NCAA Division III championship game with a 3-1 semifinal win over Geneseo State in Greensboro, N.C. Holocher took the Banana Slugs' reins after retiring from MLS play in 1999. They win 14 straight to reach the D3 final, where they fall to Messiah, 4-0.

Alex Chursky accounts for all the Seattle Wolves' scoring in a 3-2 first-round road victory over the Portland Timbers U23 at PGE Park. Chursky ties it in the 30th minute, again on a header in the 81st and wins the PDL playoff in the 90th. It's the Wolves' fourth straight win.

Preki, 24, returns to Tacoma, taking a pay cut from his $75,000 salary. Portugal’s Estra De Amdadora had signed him to a three-year contact during the summer, but the Stars negotiate his release.

Mike Kuczi’s last-gasp equalizer gives the Seattle Hungarians their fifth draw in 10 games to open the Pacific Coast League campaign. They Magyars catch North Shore, 1-1, at White Center to stay in fourth place (2-3-5). Tommy Major’s penalty kick midway through the second half hits the post. Steve Furjesi, fouled prior to the penalty, crosses to Kuczi to knock home from 5 yards.

Lisa Fraser is chosen by Washington State as the first women's varsity head coach. Fraser, 31, formerly an assistant at UC Irvine, has only a few weeks to prepare for tryouts and complete the schedule.

Washington's club ends Western Washington's 38-game women's win streak by winning, 2-1, at Husky Stadium. Bonnie Broughton scores the winner with 20 minutes to go after Stephanie Yoshino wins the ball and makes the feed. Karla Hossfeld puts UW in front before Nancy Harling equalizes from 30 yards just before halftime. Western, which last lost in 1982, still finishes first in the NCSC for the third straight year, two points ahead of Washington. In the first meeting Sept. 22, a shorthanded UW lost, 4-0.