Heels earn title on Casey Nogueira's goals

Posted Dec 8, 2008
With 2:06 left in the match, Casey Nogueira scores the game-winning goal, slanting from center to the left wing and firing across right into the right corner of the goal, hitting the cross-bar on the way in. It's Nogueira's second goal of the game, fourth of the tournament and 25th of the year. UNC wins its second national championship in three years, handing the Irish their first and only loss of the season. (Raleigh News & Observer)

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