In a showdown between two of the most successful girls' club in state history, North Seattle's Union Bay Flyers prevail over Highline's Pepsi Stompers on penalties, 3-3 (6-5), at Renton Stadium. Flyers keeper Kathy Long saves the Stompers' sixth attempt after Katie Rusho's conversion. Gina Cassella and Michelle Akers score in regulation for Union Bay, which won a third straight U19 state cup and sixth overall. The Stompers, featuring seven starters under age 16, including Shannon Higgins, had won six cups in a row and took first in league play, ahead of the Flyers. Long is named outstanding goalkeeper for the entire tournament and Lori Henry of the Stompers the outstanding player.

Brent Goulet finds the game-winner in the 106th minute to give 5th-ranked Warner Pacific a 3-2 overtime win over Park (Mo.) in Fresno, sending the Knights through to the NAIA semifinals. Goulet finishes with two goals and five in two days. He also had a hat trick in the group stage opener, a 6-0 win over Westmont. Goulet scores again the a 5-3 semifinal loss to West Virginia Wesleyan Nov. 23, finishing the season with 31 goals.

For the second time in three years a Sounders reunion match is held, this time with proceeds benefitting Seattle's Variety Club. A squad featuring Micky Cave, Adrian Webster, Steve Buttle, Mike Ivanow and Bernie Fagan play the Cliff McCrath Selects at Memorial Stadium. A crowd of about 1,000 see the McCrath team win, 1-0, on Bruce Raney's rebound past Ivanow midway through the second half. Variety Club raises funds primarily for Children's Hospital and Medical Center.

Joan Dunlap scores North Carolina’s final goal and adds an assist on one of two April Heinrichs goals in a 3-0 win over William & Mary. It extends Dunlap’s streak of contributing either a goal or assist to 23 games for the Tar Heels (14-0-0), dating back to Oct. 15, 1983. On Oct 23, she nets a hat trick in the first 22 minutes of a 5-0 victory over William & Mary.

Although initially slotted for the Far West's No. 4 seed by the regional committee, Washington misses the NCAA tournament. Instead, the national selection committee overrules and takes San Francisco, which had lost 4-0 at home to the Huskies five weeks earlier. After rising to No. 8 in the coaches' poll, UW sustained losses to NAIA Warner Pacific and Div. II Seattle Pacific. Those teams finish third and second, in their respective tournaments. Regional chair Mike Davis of Portland says the national committee argued that USF, despite two more losses, played a more difficult schedule and higher power rating.

Freshman Michelle Akers of Shoreline scores twice to lead Central Florida past William & Mary, 3-1, and on to the NCAA quarterfinals in Orlando. Akers scores the game's first goal and adds an insurance marker in the second half. She scores her UCF record 14th goal in the quarterfinal loss to eventual champion North Carolina. Three of the Lady Knights' four losses are to UNC. Joining her on the squad is goalkeeper Amy Allmann of Federal Way.

Washington’s Aerie No. 1 FOE and Tacoma Cozars sweep the men’s and women’s open division championships at the Royal Hawaiian tournament in Honolulu. The Cozars beat Hawaii’s Leahi, 3-2, while the Eagles defeat Vaiete in penalties after drawing 0-0. The Seattle Pacemakers claim the men’s master’s, 3-1 over San Jose’s Zagreb.

FC Seattle, a collection of mostly top amateurs, announces a four-match Challenge Series at Memorial Stadium that will feature three NASL opponents – Vancouver, New York and Minnesota – and the U.S. Olympic team. The objectives are threefold: to test the market for a possible return of pro soccer, provide strong competition for the top local players and determine if those players can hold their own vs. top-flight opposition. Bud Greer funds FC Seattle, and former Sounders coach Jimmy Gabriel will oversee the coaching staff. Cliff McCrath, SPU coach and a FC Seattle director, persuades the Olympic team to visit by offering to outfit the players with dress attire.

Micky Cave, 35, the No. 2 career scorer for the NASL Sounders, dies of accidental carbon-monoxide poisoning outside Pittsburgh. Cave, an assistant coach for MISL Pittsburgh Spirit, is found dead in his bedroom in Aleppo Township. He apparently left his car running in attached garage. One of those finding Cave was his former Seattle teammate Steve Buttle, who plays for the Spirit.

Bellevue's Chance Fry moves to his third team in as many weeks as the Cosmos obtain him from Chicago for the upcoming indoor season. Fry scored 15 goals for Tulsa during NASL indoor play in 1983-84 and eight more outdoors. After the Roughnecks folded Sept. 8, Chicago purchased his rights. Brian Schmetzer, who, like Fry, went to Tulsa after the Sounders folded, went to San Diego on Oct. 5.

Tacoma's Jeff Durgan becomes the first Washingtonian selected for a U.S. Olympic Team. Durgan, 22, plays center back for the Cosmos and has two caps for the full national team after playing for coach Alkis Panagoulias while with Team America in 1983. This marks the first Olympic competition in which professionals are allowed. The U.S. automatically qualify as host nation. Dale Mitchell of the Tacoma Stars represents Canada.

Unbeaten Thomas Jefferson erupts for three second-half goals to become the first state boys' repeat champion in the WIAA era. The Raiders overpower Interlake, 4-1, before 3,500 at Memorial Stadium in Seattle. Ray Hoff, Larry Piffer, Todd Holman and Shawn Bogart score for TJ, which features nine members of the national champion Goalpost and outscored opponents 101-6 during the season and allowed just one goal in the tournament. Iain Ferguson tallies an equalizer in the 30th minute for the Saints, who upset Nathan Hale in the semifinals.

Brent Goulet, a sophomore from Tacoma, scores with under two minutes left in overtime, lifting Portland's Warner Pacific over defending NAIA champion Simon Fraser, 1-0, in the Area 1 championship game at Burnaby, B.C. Goulet takes a cross from Seattle's Erick Knapp for his 25th goal. Seattle native Todd Strobeck makes 10 saves in earning the Knights' shutout. Warner Pacific advances to its first NAIA national tournament.

Seattle sports promoter Bob Walsh announces that the NCAA Division I men's championship game is coming to the Kingdome in four months. Walsh brought the Final Four to the Dome in April and will again in 1989. He steps up after Fort Lauderdale organizers pull out after two years. It will be the first time the title game has been played indoors. The NCAA is seeking a permanent site. Later, Walsh brands the game The Big Kick.

Booth Gardner, founder and coach of the Tacoma Cozars and past owner of NASL and ASL franchises, is elected the 19th Governor of Washington. Gardner, 48, defeats incumbent John Spellman by 56 percent. It is the most expensive race in state history, with a combined $4 million spent by the two candidates. Gardner, a moderate Democrat who previously served as Pierce County Executive, does so despite Ronald Reagan winning the U.S. Presidency in an Electoral College rout (525-13). He founded the Cozars as a girls' youth team in 1974, and it is now a national power at the senior level. Gardner first owned the ASL Tacoma Tides before becoming part of the NASL Colorado Caribous ownership.

Both the Highline Albion Reds and Federal Way Cheetahs win their third consecutive girls' Washington State Youth championship at Renton. Albion Reds defeat Skyway Angels of Renton, 2-1, in the U15 final. The Cheetahs win, 2-1, over Snohomish Zodiax in the U13 title match.

Bruce Raney provides the early lift FC Seattle wants, and Doug Backous delivers the late heroics in their inaugural match, a 2-2 draw with the Vancouver Whitecaps. Using 12 players who played youth or college in-state, Seattle gets a standing ovation from the Memorial Stadium crowd of nearly 6,000. Raney volleys the local amateurs in front after just 45 seconds. Former Sounders Jeff Stock and Peter Ward assist on goals that put the Whitecaps ahead by the 16th minute. But Backous scores at 84:24 when a Mike Hiatt corner kick is flicked on by Tom Blahous at the near post. Seattle out-shoots Vancouver 20-13 and ex-Sounder Jack Brand makes only one save.

Kent's Bill Crook, a former Sounder, scores from the penalty spot in the final minute of play as the Minnesota Strikers blank FC Seattle. Ray Hudson and Alan Willey score the visitors' first two goals. The match had been scoreless for the first 78 minutes. Crook, 20, is a regular on defense for the Strikers. He earns his first USMNT cap Nov. 30 vs. Ecuador.

Flemming Pehrson scores in the fourth minute of overtime, lifting Tacoma over the New York Arrows, 5-4, for the Stars' sixth straight victory and third in a row on the road. They are now just 1 1/2 games out of the final MISL West playoff spot. Dale Mitchell bags a pair of goals for Tacoma, including the tying goal at 10:41 of the fourth quarter. It's the club's first overtime win after losing the first seven, plus one shootout.

Seattle's KING 5 preempts network programming to air a documentary featuring three-time women's national champion FC Lowenbrau-Zurich. The film, narrated by Jean Enersen and entitled "Going for Four," profiles coach Mike Ryan and 14 players as they prepare to win a fourth national title in 1983.

Kris Jorgensen and Bonnie Broughton each tally a goal and assist to lead Washington over 9th-ranked Cal, 3-1. The Huskies trail the Bears for 23 minutes until Jorgensen ties it in the 51st minute. She assists Broughton on the go-ahead goal, and then Karla Hossfeld seals it the 79th. The Huskies win one and tie three in four games vs. varsity opponents during their Bay Area trip. The Bears go on to reach the NCAA semifinals.

Chance Fry makes his first international appearance for the United States, joining fellow Washingtonian Jeff Durgan in the starting lineup of a 4-0 World Cup qualifying win over Netherlands Antilles at St. Louis. By 11 days later Fry has five caps. He assists on the winner vs El Salvador and hits the post in a loss at Guatemala. Both Fry and Durgan were named second team all-NASL.

FC Seattle finds its first win on its first trip from home. Bruce Raney's 81st minute goal gives the visitors a 2-1 win over the Vancouver Whitecaps at B.C. Place. Seattle had gone 0-3-1 at home during its Challenge Series, but Tad Willoughby puts them in front. After Peter Ward ties it in the 55th minute, Seattle presses for the win, and Raney works a combination with Joe James to score from 16 yards. Vancouver leads the NASL West and starts six regulars while five are missing due injuries and Olympic team duty.

A late St. Mary's free kick proves to be the difference as Western Washington goes out of the NAIA tournament, losing 3-2 in the Area 1 final at Olympia. Sue Caporicci's game-winner for the Gaels comes in the 72nd minute. Paula French hits the post, and Cindy Gordon just misses connection with Annette Duvall for a would-be equalizer in the waning seconds. Duvall, plagued by tendonitis in her knee throughout the season, finishes with a career record 61 goals. Gordon, who scored twice in a 4-0 semifinal win over Puget Sound, totals 12 for the season.

Shrugging off an early scare from FC Seattle, the New York Cosmos demonstrate their class in beating the local amateurs, 2-1, before 7,631 at Memorial Stadium. Eddie Krueger's right-wing cross swerves into the roof of the net after 1:50 for a Seattle lead. The once-mighty Cosmos, led by Vladislav Bogicevic, control possession and equalize through Alan Green. A scissors volley from Roberto Cabanas then wins it in the 66th minute. Seattle proves feisty, committing 29 fouls. Captain Robbie Zipp is bloodied by a collision with New York keeper David Brcic, and Tom Blahous knocks down Carmen Marcantonio.

Lake City's Sporthaus SC completes its run by defeating North County's H&L Sports in the U19 final at Renton. For Sporthaus, also known earlier as the Seattle Bobcats, it's a fourth state title. Kyle Whittemore of Sporthaus is named the tournament MVP. Federal Way Wild Pack win their third state cup, 3-1, over Lynnwood Cobras.

Seattle's Kyle Whittemore scores his record-breaking 21st goal, but it's not enough as San Diego State's late-season surge ends with a 3-1 loss at UNLV. Whittemore, a sophomore, had scored 20 times as a freshman. He scores six times during the Aztecs' five-game October win streak. Everett's Pat Henderson and Lynnwood's Rick Blubaugh are also key contributors for SDSU.

Zequinha provides the sweet finishing touch to Tacoma's first season, completing a furious 4-3 comeback with a goal seven minutes into overtime against Kansas City. The Stars trail 3-0 entering the fourth quarter but force overtime after Dale Mitchell's second goal of the night and 35th of the season. Each of the fourth-quarter goals come with Jimmy Sinclair as the sixth attacker. In the fifth period, Mitchell hits Zequinha, the Brazilian speedster, for the winner before 8,711. Tacoma finishes 22-26, the eighth-best record in MISL, after a 1-11 start.

Ray Evans waits until late on to achieve his first career hat trick, and it proves the difference in Tacoma's ninth straight home win, 7-4, over Wichita. Evans, 34 and 17 years into his career, scores the first of his three goals midway through the third quarter, quickly adds another, and finishes it with 45 seconds left in the game. Gary Heale and Dale Mitchell each score twice for the Stars, who have won nine of 10 overall and now stand tied with Los Angeles for fourth in the West.

With all the scoring occurring in the final 11 minutes, Clemson claims the NCAA Division I championship with an 89th minute winner in Seattle's Kingdome. John Lee's header beats two-time defending champion Indiana, 2-1, in the Big Kick played before 7,926. Gary Connor breaks scoreless stalemate for Tigers in 79th minute, and five minutes later the Hoosiers' Paul DiBernardo answers on a free kick. Lee converts at 88:18 following a Maxwell Amatasiro corner that Dick Landgren flicks on. Snowfall on the morning of the game may have held down attendance, although it was the highest for an NCAA final since 1977.

Alkis Panagoulias calls in Jeff Durgan, Chance Fry and Mark Peterson in U.S. National Team preparations for upcoming World Cup qualifying matches. Durgan plays for the New York Cosmos, Fry for the Tulsa Roughnecks and Peterson for the Tacoma Stars. In all, 26 players report.

In the first AA-A tournament sponsored by WIAA, Tyee takes top honors over its neighboring Mount Rainier via penalties, 1-1 (3-1) at Edmonds. The Totems, based less than four miles from the Rams, complete back-to-back upsets when Sheree Sacco, Tammy Miller and Darcie Jordan score from the spot. Miller's goal in the 57th minute forces overtime. Carrie Proszek gives Mount Rainier the halftime lead. Tyee had advanced past Shorecrest, the 1983 all-division champion, in a semifinal tiebreaker, 2-2 (3-1).

Coming off a perfect 1983 campaign, Western Washington opens with a resounding 9-0 thumping of Seattle University at the Chico Invitational. Debbie Carter scores five times as the Vikings' win their 25th straight.

Woodinville Indoor Soccer Center opens, becoming the Puget Sound region's fifth facility designed for small-sided play and instruction. Woodinville joins centers in Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way and Tacoma.

San Diego Sockers GM Jack Daley says the club is considering moving its outdoor operations to Seattle for NASL play in 1985. The Sockers would continue playing indoor games in San Diego. they are averaging just 6,000 for games at Jack Murphy Stadium. Eventually, the Sockers cease all outdoor play and join three other former NASL franchises in the MISL for 1985-86. Daley was the Sounders' GM from 1974-81.

Jeff Durgan of Tacoma starts for the United States in a must-win Olympic group stage match versus Egypt at Palo Alto, Calif. Despite scoring first, the U.S. is held, 1-1, before 54,973 at Stanford. Durgan, who missed the first two matches, makes it 36 minutes before aggravating a calf muscle pull and departing. Over 1.4 million attend the Olympic tournament, including a U.S. record crowd of 101,799 for the gold medal match at the Rose Bowl. Still, ABC elects not to air any live action.

Seattle Pacific dominates possession and chances while hosting the NCAA Division II championship game before 4,500, but the Falcons cannot repeat as champion. Florida International, scoring off its only corner kick in 110 minutes, wins the title, 1-0, in overtime. SPU defender Dennis Gunnell marks Sunblazers star Munga Eketebi out of the match. Eketebi, who scored five times in a 10-1 semifinal win, gets off one the visitors' five shots. Seattle Pacific fires 29 shots and earns a record 19 corners, but pays dearly for some missed chances, particularly in the opening 10 minutes. Troy Edwards heads in the FIU corner in the 96th minute.

Tad Willoughby produces a virtuoso performance for FC Seattle in defeat, 3-1, to the U.S. Olympic Team before 8,199. He outshines Ricky Davis and Mike Fox, and sets-up the game's first goal with a 30-yard dribble and, following a 1-2 with Tom Blahous, finding Mike Hiatt for a header. His corner to Steve Englebrick in the 24th minute is cleared off the line by Bruce Savage. But the Olympians gradually take hold, score and then score again and again. For the third time in the four Challenge Series games, Seattle strikes first, through Willoughby. Yet by halftime Davis and Steve Sharp tally, and in the waning seconds Sharp scores his second.

Jenny Berbeck gets behind the Highline defense to score in overtime and give Snohomish the AAA championship at Auburn. The Panthers, out-shot 20-7, force extra time behind the 13 saves of Lulu Castagna. They break through when, with 63 seconds left in the second extra period, Jenny Birks clears to midfield, and Berbeck beats the lone remaining defender and the Pirates' keeper. It's her 26th goal of the year.

Although they overcame a disastrous start to surge into contention, the Tacoma Stars are eliminated from the MISL playoff race in the next-to-last game. A Juan Cardenas hat trick helps the L.A. Lazers snap the Stars' 11-game Tacoma Dome win streak, 6-5, before 10,824. Mark Peterson scores two goals for Tacoma, which had won 20 of 33. The Lazers also won at the Forum two nights earlier.

Behind hometown product Mike Enneking, Tacoma comes from behind to beat Wichita, 4-3, for its first three-game win streak. Enneking, a Bellarmine Prep and UW graduate, scores the tying and winning goals, the latter with 3:05 left. Wichita scores the game’s first three goals. The Stars, after starting out 4-16, are 3-5 since Freddie Goodwin replaced Bob McNab as coach.

Washington's club ends Western Washington's 38-game women's win streak by winning, 2-1, at Husky Stadium. Bonnie Broughton scores the winner with 20 minutes to go after Stephanie Yoshino wins the ball and makes the feed. Karla Hossfeld puts UW in front before Nancy Harling equalizes from 30 yards just before halftime. Western, which last lost in 1982, still finishes first in the NCSC for the third straight year, two points ahead of Washington. In the first meeting Sept. 22, a shorthanded UW lost, 4-0.

Seattle's Joan Dunlap scores as North Carolina claims its fourth straight national championship, 2-0, over Connecticut before a rabid home crowd of 3,500 at Chapel Hill. Both Tar Heels goals come in the final 13 minutes. April Heinrichs gets the first and Dunlap, a speedy sophomore, gets her 21st of the year in the 81st minute. UNC, which has won an AIAW and the first three NCAA tournaments, finishes 24-0-1.

Dale Mitchell of the Tacoma Stars scores two goals as Canada secures advancement to the Olympic quarterfinals with a 3-1 win over Cameroon at Boston. After being fouled in the box, Mitchell opens the scoring with a penalty kick just before halftime. His second clinches it with eight minutes to go. Mitchell scores again vs. Brazil on Aug. 6 at Stanford, but the Canadians go out, 1-1 (4-2).