Yu Tsukanome and Tacoma Defiance continue their strong start with a 2-1 win at Ventura County. Now 4-1-0 in MLS Next Pro, Tacoma gets a second-half brace from Tsukanome. It’s the best start in Defiance annals.

Megan Rapinoe fires the opening salvo in the United States' bid to bring the FIFA World Cup championship back home. Rapinoe scores the opening goal in the USWNT's first group stage game, a 3-1 win over Australia in Winnipeg. She scores in the 12th minute and adds her 31st international goal in the 78th, the first two-goal game at the World Cup for the Americans since Abby Wambach against Norway in 2007. Hope Solo, Rapinoe's Seattle Reign teammate, is tested in the fifth minute, when she tips Emily Van Egmond’s shot off the crossbar and over.

Kitsap Pumas get a hat trick from Miguel Gonzalez to clinch the PDL Northwest Division for the first time in three seasons with a 3-1 win over Washington Crossfire in Redmond. Kitsap (9-1-4) finishes four points in front of Vancouver and Victoria.

A draw wins the state league's first stage for Seattle Hungarians at Lower Woodland. Larry Tomas and Alex Bogdan tally in a 2-2 tie with Buchan Bakers. The Hungarians go three points above both Loyal Vikings and Fort Lewis, who each have one match remaining.

For the first time in 19 years a Sounders league match is played at Memorial Stadium as the new APSL club hosts Fort Lauderdale before the largest home crowd to date, 6,624. However, the Strikers spoil the homecoming with a 3-2 overtime win, giving Seattle consecutive defeats for the first time. The club's first six home matches had been moved to Tacoma following the Kingdome's closure due to falling ceiling tiles. The NASL Sounders played at Memorial from 1974-75 before moving to the Kingdome.

Second-ranked Portland, reloaded with more top Washington recruits, opens its season by beating No. 14 Washington State, 5-1, at Pullman. The Pilots added state player of the year Tia Sharpe from Bainbridge Island and U20 national team member Wynne McIntosh to a cast which already features Justi Baumgardt, Jody Dutra and Michelle Voiland. McIntosh scores the third UP goal at WSU.