December 3, 2000
UNC
wins 2000 NCAA Championship with 2-1 win over UCLA as Meredith is named
MVP
UCLA
1 UNC 2 (NCAA College Cup Final)
Sunday, December 3, 2000
The University of North Carolina women's soccer team scored two second half goals Sunday for a typical 2-1 victory over sixth-seeded UCLA at San Jose's Spartan Stadium. It is UNC's second-straight NCAA women's soccer championship and 16th in program history. Seeded fifth, UNC is also the lowest seeded team ever to win the NCAA Championship.
UCLA scored against the run of play in the 54th minute when a superbly placed cross from Stephanie Rigamat caused a collision between UNC goalkeeper Jenni Branam and defender Catherine Reddick and left Bruin freshman Lindsay Greco with an empty net. After many attempts Carolina finally tied the score in the 76th minute when Meredith Florance finished off some intelligent attcking play by Alyssa Ramsey and Danielle Borgman. The match never really looked as if it would go into overtime with UNC clearly dominating. In the 83rd minute Katherine Reddick fired a powerful volley towards the goal that that was helped in by the Bruin defender Krista Boling. UCLA posted just three shots compared to 14 for North Carolina.
Post game quotes
UCLA Head Coach Jillian Ellis
"I'm extremely proud of my teams' performance today, I thought they battled hard. It was tough for us to play how we like to play because of the great pressure Carolina put us under. They run, then they run their subs in and then they continue to run and that's tough. My congratulations to North Carolina, it was well deserved."
UNC Head Coach Anson Dorrance
"I thought we beat an excellent UCLA team. In a lot of respects, that was like playing ourselves. I told our kids before the game that this was going to be like an inter-squad scrimmage. UCLA sets their personalities free to go one-on-one at defenses and that was how their first goal was scored. We're just ecstatic to be up here as champions and we salute a tremendous UCLA team."
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