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On the same day Tina Frimpong scores twice in a Washington postseason win over Birmingham Southern, she is named Pac-10 Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. Frimpong, a senior from Vancouver, is the first player to achieve the latter. She and Nikki Gamble each score a brace in the NCAA tournament opening 5-0 win.
Seattle Pacific clinches its first Northwest Collegiate Soccer Conference championship in 10 years with a 1-1 draw with Washington at Husky Stadium. An own goal in the fourth minute puts SPU in front until Shannon Murray levels it with 7:39 left in regulation. Marcus Hahnemann saves nine UW shots. The result gives the Huskies an 0-2-2 mark in the final four games, ending their postseason hopes.
Sounders Academy midfielder Danny Leyva, 15, signs with Seattle Sounders 2, becoming the seventh member of the national-championship winning U17 side to sign with the club’s USL team. Leyva split time between the Sounders Academy U15s and U17s throughout the 2017-18 season, playing in every playoff match for the U17s as they secured the club’s first ever U.S. Soccer Development Academy national championship in July. A well-rounded, box-to-box midfielder, Leyva totaled 11 goals and 13 assists across all competitions.
Two goals from Tommy Major propelled Seattle Hungarians into the second round of the 1966/67 National Challenge Cup. Constantine Tagios adds a third in Seattle's 3-0 victory over Denver Kickers before 1,000 spectators at West Seattle Stadium.
Dr. Richard Waltman and a group of investors is exploring a Continental Indoor Soccer League for the Tacoma Dome. CISL commissioner Ron Weinstein tells the Tacoma investors that it’s too late to obtain a franchise for the league’s inaugural season, which begins in June. Despite some contentious discussions with Weinstein, who has disapproved of owners involved with the defunct MISL and Tacoma Stars, there are plans to apply for a 1994 expansion team. There is also rumored interest for a Seattle franchise, which would be operated by Sonics owner Barry Ackerley.
Third-ranked Puget Sound strikes twice in the second half to blank Iowa's Loras College, 2-0, for the NCAA Division III women's West Regional title in Dubuque. Lea John puts the visitors in front from a Kelsey Lau corner kick in the 50th minute. Elizabeth Pitman finds Tera Anderson 18 minutes later for the final margin. It's the Loggers' fifth straight shutout.