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Mercer Island's Jordan Morris opens the scoring and Vancouver's Foster Langsdorf scores the winning goal in overtime as Stanford upsets top-seeded and No. 1-ranked Wake Forest, 2-1, before 4,906 in Winston-Salem, N.C. Langsdorf's looping header comes off a free kick in the 97th minute. Morris puts the visitors in front in the 18th minute with his 11th goal.
Chris Citowicki becomes the eighth head coach in Washington State program history, succeeding Todd Shulenberger. Citowicki spent the past eight seasons at Montana, where he went 39-32 and led the Grizzlies to four NCAA tournament appearances, including a Big Sky double of regular season and postseason titles in 2025. The Cougars will return to a reformed Pac-12 Conference in 2026.
Spokane open playoffs by beating Northern Colorado Hailstorm 3-0 away. It’s the first victory in 8 games, dating back to Sept. 7. All three goals come in a 15-minute span of the second half, sparked by Luis Gil’s 53’ opener. The Velocity, which had lost its last three meetings with the Hailstorm, become the first League One expansion team to win a postseason match.
The Catholic Youth Organization holds a season-ending party for the players and volunteer coaches. St. John’s and coach Sam Donohoe were presented the Bantam League trophy, and St. Mary’s and Nick Galando took home the Teen-Age League trophy.
Following two seasons of shields and glorious goals, the Seattle Reign can only grind away in hopes that their attack will re-ignite. The Reign earns a fourth straight shutout, 0-0 in sweltering heat at Kansas City. Yet they have only scored a single goal in those four games and four goals in the last eight. Help, however, is on the way. Japanese international forward Naho Kawasumi, who flourished for Seattle in 2014, signed on June 16 and will become available in July.
Born in Birmingham, England, Vancouver, B.C. transplant and Boeing engineer Jack Goldingay starts the Eastside's first youth program through the Bellevue Boy Club. There are four teams. By 1962, it grows to more than 300 players.