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Thirteen days before polls close on Referendum 48, Paul Allen's Football Northwest sponsors a showcase of what a new soccer and football stadium would offer. The Sounders face their first Major League Soccer opposition as the San Jose Clash visit Memorial Stadium for an exhibition. The Clash feature former Sounders midfielders Shawn Medved and Dominic Kinnear. Attendance is 6,601 for standouts include Sounders a match which ends 0-0, with Seattle taking the resulting shootout, 3-1.
Leaders from five districts – Seattle, East Side, Tacoma, Federal Way and Snohomish – unite to form the Washington Junior Soccer Association. Mike Ryan is elected president, adding to his existing duties as coach of Washington varsity, Buchan Juniors and vice-president of senior state association. Ryan had begun recruiting associations for a meeting at his Lake City home in October.
Highline's Pepsi Stompers win their fifth Washington girls' state cup and Avionic Flyers from Seattle area win their fourth in a row at Renton Stadium. The Stompers claim the U14 title 5-0 over North Shore Untouchables. The Flyers are forced into overtime by Tacoma's Team Adidas before prevailing, 5-4 in the U19.
Puget Sound becomes the first school to boast two 300-win coaches as Reece Olney surpasses the milestone with 2-0 win over Willamette. Sean Hamel and Angel Herrera-Flores score on either side of halftime for the Loggers. In 2015, former women's coach Randy Hanson preceded Olney with 300 victories at UPS.
The Kelso City Council agrees, with certain stipulations, to allow the Kelso Soccer Club to build a soccer field complex on a 9-acre stretch along the Cowlitz River. With a land-use agreement in hand, the soccer club applies for a U.S. Soccer grant, which the club estimates will be $284,000. If the soccer club is awarded the money, the fields should be ready for play by fall 2007.
Seattle's FC Löwenbräu wins the West Regional of the U.S. Women's Amateur Cup in San Francisco, 2-1 over Hawaii Leahi. Sharon McMurtry scores on Lowenbrau's first foray of the match, and Joan Dunlap doubles the lead in the 75th minute. Seattle defeated Colorado, 2-1, in the semifinal. The three-time national champions, who started the season slowly after adding seven new players, will now defend their title at the finals in Houston.