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Seattle's Maple Leafs thrash Tacoma, 4-0, in Renton for the state title and Puget Power & Light trophy, donated by A.W. Leonard. Sammy Lewis scores twice and Barney Kempton is the playmaker, assisting both Lewis’s opener and Tommy Barwick, who made it 2-nil. Len Williamson got the other goal.
Seattle University's Board of Trustees votes for a return to NCAA Division I athletics, which the Redhawks left in 1980. Seattle U will continue to participate in Div. II as a member of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and become a Div. I member as an independent in 2009-10. The fall of 2012 is the earliest the Redhawks would be eligible for D-I postseason play.
Vince McCluskey's late goal and Puget Sound's seventh shutout in 12 games gives coach Reece Olney his 200th career win, 1-0 over Whitworth. Olney started at UPS in 1994.
Puget Sound fires 43 shots before finally connecting on the game-winning goal vs. Pacific at Baker Stadium. Emily Bumguardner scores at 84:10 for the Loggers' 23rd straight conference victory. Nineteen of those wins are shutouts, including 11 this season. UPS goalie Karen Ecklebe posts her seventh shutout of the season.
With Memorial Stadium covered in several inches of snow, Seattle Pacific scrambles to find an alternative site over Thanksgiving holiday. The Falcons roost in the Kingdome, and despite travel conditions 2,467 root them on to a 2-1 victory over West Virginia’s Davis & Elkins in an NCAA Division II semifinal. Peter Hattrup scores both goals, including the 85th minute winner. It’s the 300th career win for Cliff McCrath, making him only the fifth collegiate coach to do so. Two NWAAC men’s semifinals are played prior to the main event.
In a match that begins on a Sunday and ends 49 hours later, Jess Fishlock finds a last-minute winner for the Reign's 1-0 win over Louisville at an empty Lumen Field. A scoreless first half ended Sept. 14 with Racing's Savannah DeMelo collapsing and requiring medical attention. Officials abandon the game and restart it with the second half two days later. DeMelo is conscious and alert when taken to the hospital. The 90' winner comes off a backpass intercepted by Jordyn Huietma, then Maddie Dahlien centers to Fishlock.