NW Briefs | USL OKs soccer team for Kitsap County

Kitsap County was granted a United Soccer Leagues franchise that is scheduled to begin play next season at Bremerton High School Memorial Stadium.

The club is holding a name-the-team contest.

"This is only the first step of many — team name, team colors, sponsors, suppliers. ... It's a very long list — but this is indeed a very exciting time for all of us in Kitsap," owner Robin Waite said in a news release.

The squad is expected to play in the USL Premier Development League, which is the third level of USL soccer, and would play in the Northwest Division that includes teams from Spokane, Tacoma and Yakima.

To submit name entries, visit www.kitsapsoccerclub.com. The club will accept submissions until Oct. 25.

The USL Division 1 Sounders ended their tenure in Seattle after a playoff loss Sunday to Montreal. The new Major League Soccer franchise Seattle Sounders FC will begin play next season.

UW golfers win

The UW men's golf team ran away from the field of 11 teams at the 2008 Husky Invitational with a 13-stroke victory, and junior Chris Killmer took individual honors.

UW golfers shot a combined score of 7-under par, 857 over the three-day tournament that finished Tuesday at the par-72, 7,111-yard Gold Mountain Golf Club's Olympic Course on Bremerton.

The win kept the trophy with UW for the first time since 2003, and it was UW's first tournament win in three years.

Second place in the tournament went to California, which posted a 6-over par 870.

Killmer shot a combined score of 5-under 211 to finish first in individual play. Washington's Jens Bracht and Richard Lee finished in a four-way tie for third at even-par 216.

Washington State took seventh place. Junior Austin Hurt led the Cougars with a 6-over 222 for a tie for 16th place.

Notes

• Seattle Sounders defender Taylor Graham and forward Sebastien Le Toux earned first and second team All-USL honors, respectively, for the 2008 season.

• Huskies sophomore Venise Chan, ranked No. 28, fell to Miami's Bianca Eichkorn, who is ranked 109th, 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 in the qualifying draw of the Riviera/ITA All-American Championships in Los Angeles. Chan earlier defeated 47th-ranked Nina Much-Soeggard of TCU, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2.

• Fred Urquhart of Bellingham carded the only round under par Tuesday with a 1-under par 70 to lead the 22nd WSGA Senior Men's Amateur Championship in Lakewood. Del Herring of Wenatchee carded an even par 71 to lead the Inaugural WSGA Super Senior Men's Amateur. Both championships are at Oakbrook Golf and Country Club.

• Gonzaga's women's golf team placed 11th at the University of Colorado Heather Farr Memorial Invitational. Gonzaga's 896 is the first time the Bulldogs have produced a sub-900 score for a 54-hole tournament.

• Host Western Washington shot a final-round 281 to tie for eighth at 871 at the National Division II Preview Men's Golf Tournament held at the 6,995-yard Loomis Trail Golf and Country Club in Blaine. Central Oklahoma took a four-stroke victory at 859.

• Gonzaga's men's golf team finished 16th at the Saint Mary's Invitational, with the Bulldogs shooting a final-round 300. The Bulldogs shot 893 at the 6,639-yard, par 71 Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, Calif.

• WSU sophomore goalkeeper Lindsay Parlee was named Pac-10 women's soccer player of the week. Parlee recorded six saves in a 1-0 win over Gonzaga on Friday. She followed with a victory against Idaho when she notched four saves in the first half of a 2-0 triumph over the Vandals on Sunday.

• The Seattle Thunderbirds announced the team has added free agent left wing Chris Cloud to the roster. Cloud played with the Vancouver Giants last season. He appeared in 65 games and had eight goals and 11 assists for 19 points with 105 penalty minutes.

• Northwest University volleyball beat Evergreen State 3-1 at Olympia. Lauren Holtz had 12 kills for NU (6-10, 3-6 Cascade Conference).

Compiled from team reports and other sources.