Sounders 2 heats up on a hot night and delivers a 3-0 beating to Las Vegas Lights to snap a six-game losing skid at Cheney Stadium. It's still 90 degrees when Antonee Burke-Gilroy breaks through with a brilliant solo effort at 74 seconds. David Estrada, a 60th minute substitute, buries a penalty kick at 68’ and, four minutes later, he chips a through ball to Lamar Neagle, who's on loan from Seattle.

Back in Tacoma after seasons in L.A. and St. Louis, Gary Heale carries the Stars with five goals in a 6-5 overtime home win over Baltimore. Heale has a hat trick in the first quarter, but it's his fifth, with 4:46 left, that sends the game into overtime. Bill Crook's power-play strike 57 seconds into the third extra frame is the difference. It's the second-longest game in Tacoma history.

Crossfire Premier comes from behind to win the Elite Club National League boys U15 championship in Henrico, Virginia. Just before halftime, Zachariah Hume ties it with California's Slammers FC at 1-1. Justin Chen scores to grab the lead at 60', and Bruno Perversi cinches the victory, 3-1, at 80'.

Erik Skipper's header snaps a 1-1 tie with 17 minutes to go and Seattle Pacific pulls away to beat Seattle University, 4-1, in a downpour at Interbay to clinch the Pacific West Conference championship. The Falcons proceed to finish the regular season on a 12-game unbeaten (11-0-1) run to reach the NCAA tournament for a Division II record 28th time in 29 years.

Meeting for the third time in seven days with 5,400 air miles traveled in between, the Sounders and Strikers settle their NASL semifinal series but only after going into extra time. Kenny Hibbitt collects a loose ball, juggles it twice and his 19-yard shot somehow finds the corner for the sudden-death winner, 1-0, off the hand of Fort Lauderdale keeper Jan van Beveren. A Kingdome throng of nearly 29,000 erupts and continues roaring for several minutes as the weary winners take a lap of honor.

A tradition begins in the aftermath of Seattle's 4-1 victory over Vancouver at Swangard Stadium in Burnaby, B.C. Following the A-League win over the arch-rival 86ers and snapping a string of four road losses in a row, Sounders captain Neil Megson throws open the locker room door and leads the players and coaches in banging the walls and singing a raucous rendition of Jingle Bells to celebrate.