Matheny's Builders secure the first half title, strangely, a week after clinching the second stanza. The Builders had won the two games in hand caused by snow postponements to draw level with Acme Tyee and force the playoff. A goal in the final five minutes wins the playoff, 2-1 at White Center. In the other half of the White Center doubleheader, Sunny Jim, the second half's fourth-place side bolstered by the infusion of some guest players, defeats a cast of Portland all-stars, 4-1.

Fifteen hours after starting for runner-up Blanchet in the state 3A girls basketball championship game, Katie O'Brien converts the winning shootout goal for Seattle's Emerald City FC '81 Azzurri in the title game of the U-18 Snickers Championship Cup at Renton Stadium. Rebekah Ten Broek of Lynden and Temryss Lane of Sehome also played in state hoops games before playing for ECFC Azzurri. Both girls have Division I scholarships and will play soccer next season, Lane at Arizona State and Ten Broek at Marshall in West Virginia.

Sounders striker Chance Fry, the A-League career and current season scoring leader, suffers a broken leg in a 2-0 loss at Atlanta, ending his season. A collision with Fabian Davis results in a fractured tibia and fibula of his right leg above the ankle. Moments earlier Fry stayed in the game while receiving stitches to close a wound above his left eye. He had scored six goals and two assists in leading Seattle to a 7-1 start. The team would lose six of the next eight starts.

It's a routine 19th clean sheet for Marcus Hahnemann as Reading extends its unbeaten string to 32 matches by defeating Southampton, 2-0. The Championship-leading Royals have not lost since opening day vs. Plymouth on Aug. 6, and they are now 13 points ahead of second-place Sheffield United, against whom they draw the following week. Hahnemann owns a home scoreless streak of 299 minutes.

Seattle University wins its first national championship, beating Rockhurst (Mo.), 2-1, in the NAIA final at Birmingham, Al. Less than 20 hours after advancing from the semifinals with an overtime victory, George Czarnowski’s 12-yard shot 17 minutes into overtime is the difference. Kurt Swanson opens the scoring for Seattle U in the 7th minute, and Jason Palmer makes 11 saves. The Chieftains finish on a 27-game unbeaten run, winning more games than any program in state annals (25-1-2).

Ken Covell becomes the first soccer representative in Seattle Pacific's Falcon Legends Hall of Fame, inducted with the second of three charter classes. The Falcons had won just one soccer game when Covell arrived from Denver. By the time he left, they had made four straight NCAA West Regional appearances and earned a berth in the national championship game during his senior season of 1974. Covell scored a record 21 goals as a junior. and graduated as career leader in goals (57) and assists (26).