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Spokane Valley Junior Soccer Association organizes its players, parents and greater soccer community to help create the new youth sports complex at Plantes Ferry Park. Anyone 11 and older is asked tp help with trimming and loading branches from the former tree plantation. Most of the trees have been cleared, but some remain around what will be the concession and parking areas. The 35-acre complex will eventually include two softball fields, 14 soccer fields, a picnic area and possibly a playground.
WSFA officials decline to sponsor a stop by England’s touring Huddersfield Town in the spring. Huddersfield goes on to finish mid-table of the first division and plays friendlies versus local selections in Vancouver and Calgary, as well as five other cities across North America.
Lincoln of Seattle earns its first state championship in any sport since its 2019 reopening with a 1-0 victory over Metro League rival Ballard in the boys' Class 3A state championship game at Sparks Stadium. Wren Wagner scores from 16 yards in the 27th minute, and Tomas Sanchez Swenson makes a last-minute save to preserve the shutout. The Lynx finish 21-0-1 while the Beavers won eight straight after falling in the Metro quarterfinals. It's the fifth straight 3A final featuring at least one Seattle team.
After yielding three Adelphi goals in the first 24 minutes, Seattle Pacific pulls two goals back through Kit Zell but cannot equalize in the NCAA championship game, falling, 3-2, in snow and sub-freezing temperatures in St. Louis. Zell finishes with 16 goals for the season, including five in four postseason games.
The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA) adds boys' soccer as a championship sport, beginning in spring of 1975. Only 35 high schools in the Seattle-Tacoma area have soccer programs at the time, however the announcement is the impetus for other schools in thriving junior soccer areas to begin varsity play.
After allowing an early goal from Jason Boyce, Seattle reels off four goals in the final 28 minutes of the first half all during a 6-3 romp over the Orange County Zodiac in a first-round A-League playoffs at Renton. Sean Henderson starts and finishes the spree, beginning with a 17th-minute header and culminating with a penalty kick 46 seconds before the break. In between, Mark Baena and an own goal are tallied. Russell’s brace comes in the second half, when the Zodiac unravel with two red cards. Boyce, the former UW star, gives OC a fifth-minute lead.