With every minute that crept by on a sunny Friday afternoon in Tallahassee, Florida, the Michigan women’s soccer team’s path to its first-ever College Cup grew clearer.
The Wolverines held Florida State, which had averaged three goals a game in its three previous NCAA tournament games, scoreless for 90 minutes, even as they went scoreless, too — sending the game into overtime. Nine minutes then ticked by in the extra period.
And then, suddenly, it was over. Beata Olsson — who led FSU with 14 goals in 21 games this year — slammed home the winning goal for Florida State, sending the Seminoles to their 12th College Cup.