For more than 67 minutes, Boston College senior attacker Sam Apuzzo had been quieted by North Carolina sophomore defender Emma Trenchard.
But the 2018 Tewaaraton Award winner emerged at the right time, scoring the game-winning goal with 4:48 left in double overtime to cap the No. 2 seed Eagles’ 15-14 win against the No. 3 seed Tar Heels in the first NCAA Division I tournament semifinal at Homewood Field in Baltimore on Friday evening.
After being limited to a goal and an assist in regulation thanks to stellar play by Trenchard, Apuzzo, the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Attacker of the Year, took the ACC’s Defender of the Year around the left post, curled back down the left alley, and deposited the ball over junior goalkeeper Elise Hennessey.