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Estrada, Neagle Help Snap S2 Skid
July 26, 2018

Sounders 2 heats up on a hot night and delivers a 3-0 beating to Las Vegas Lights to snap a six-game losing skid at Cheney Stadium. It's still 90 degrees when Antonee Burke-Gilroy breaks through with a brilliant solo effort at 74 seconds. David Estrada, a 60th minute substitute, buries a penalty kick at 68’ and, four minutes later, he chips a through ball to Lamar Neagle, who's on loan from Seattle.

Stars' Heale Toes Five Past Blast
February 24, 1991

Back in Tacoma after seasons in L.A. and St. Louis, Gary Heale carries the Stars with five goals in a 6-5 overtime home win over Baltimore. Heale has a hat trick in the first quarter, but it's his fifth, with 4:46 left, that sends the game into overtime. Bill Crook's power-play strike 57 seconds into the third extra frame is the difference. It's the second-longest game in Tacoma history.

Crossfire Boys Win ECNL U15 Title
July 17, 2023

Crossfire Premier comes from behind to win the Elite Club National League boys U15 championship in Henrico, Virginia. Just before halftime, Zachariah Hume ties it with California's Slammers FC at 1-1. Justin Chen scores to grab the lead at 60', and Bruno Perversi cinches the victory, 3-1, at 80'.

Seattle Pacific Clinches PacWest
October 19, 2000

Erik Skipper's header snaps a 1-1 tie with 17 minutes to go and Seattle Pacific pulls away to beat Seattle University, 4-1, in a downpour at Interbay to clinch the Pacific West Conference championship. The Falcons proceed to finish the regular season on a 12-game unbeaten (11-0-1) run to reach the NCAA tournament for a Division II record 28th time in 29 years.

Hibbitt Goal Sends Sounders to Soccer Bowl
September 10, 1982

Meeting for the third time in seven days with 5,400 air miles traveled in between, the Sounders and Strikers settle their NASL semifinal series but only after going into extra time. Kenny Hibbitt collects a loose ball, juggles it twice and his 19-yard shot somehow finds the corner for the sudden-death winner, 1-0, off the hand of Fort Lauderdale keeper Jan van Beveren. A Kingdome throng of nearly 29,000 erupts and continues roaring for several minutes as the weary winners take a lap of honor.

Jingle Bells Ring in Vancouver
August 12, 1994

A tradition begins in the aftermath of Seattle's 4-1 victory over Vancouver at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, B.C. Following the A-League win over the arch-rival 86ers and snapping a string of four road losses in a row, Sounders captain Neil Megson throws open the locker room door and leads the players and coaches in banging the walls and singing a raucous rendition of Jingle Bells to celebrate.

(Courtesy Seattle Times)
1982
There's no mistaking the reddish Cintrex surface at Lower Woodland Park. (Courtesy Seattle Parks archive)
1970
Vasco Rubio's 12 goals led Seattle Pacific to the NCSC Olympic Division championship and a runner-up finish in NCAA Division II. (Joanie Komura photo)
1990
Western Washington's Tera Ziemer fires on West Chester in the 2022 NCAA Division II Women's Championship Game at Interbay Stadium. (Courtesy Eric Becker/Western Washington)
2022
MASL MVP Nick Perera celebrates with Alex Caceres after scoring vs. the Mesquite Outlaws. Perera scored 33 goals in 2022-23 and led the league in points and assists. (Courtesy MASL Media)
2023
Action from the Seattle Sounders and St. Louis Stars in the Kingdome. (Frank MacDonald Collection)
1976
FIFA president Gianni Infantino, second from left, joins Adrian Hanauer, SEA 2026 chair  Peter Tomozawa, SEA 2026 CEO  and David Young, FGI operations chief, for a tour of Lumen Field, a venue for both the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup and the 2026 World Cup. (Sounders FC/Jane Gershsovich)
2024
1992
Hope Solo is seen in USWNT action versus Sweden at Hartford. Solo would later undergo reconstructive shoulder surgery, missing the final months of 2010. (Courtesy Andrew Katsampes / ISI Photos)
2010
Eddie Henderson of Washington celebrates scoring at Husky Stadium.
1987