 The field hockey national championship was awesome. Everything you want in a title game. They're tied at one in OT right now, and UNC has a penalty stroke. So that's a shot from really close. If she makes this shot, UNC wins in overtime, and they are the champions. This breakdown is brought to you by SeatGeek before we get to that. Look at all the other cool stuff that happened in this game. Watch this move she tries to pull off in the second. She puts it on her stick kind of like Michigan style and hockey and tries to flip it over. Northwestern all over it though. So cool. Look at this. She just pops it up onto her own stick, carries it like an A-Grace, pops it over the goalie's head. It's going to be the coolest goal ever denied by nine on Northwestern. So that was an awesome moment. This is how UNC scored their first goal off a corner and just simple. No tricks, no decoys, no passes, just boom. Get it to our shooter and she pops it in. They're excited about it now. Northwestern had a corner of their own. It got saved by the defenseman here in the leg. That's not allowed. So Northwestern, they got a penalty stroke and they put it in with ease to tie the game in the third. They are excited. Look at that. Just right past her. The goalie kind of gives them stick side, baits them into it. Now we're in overtime and 12, believe her name is Riley Heck. She's got a great scoring opportunity and they just maul her all over. Can't let her get away with that. So now they have a penalty stroke and here she comes. Number 12, she has a penalty stroke to win the game. And I gotta believe the odds are high that you score on these although Northwestern's goalie is the best goal in the nation I think. So this is where I started the video. She's given her stick side, boom! Makes the stick save, yeah! Northwestern's coach is all over it. The goalie's like obviously duh, of course. The game continues and watch this. It does hit her stick and then goes into the post. Would it have gone in? I think so, but it's really close. But what a save, what a moment. Now, OT, there's still some crazy moments. This passed to the middle, they just missed that one. And then UNC's got it here. The backhand save made. There was just awesome attempts. Watch this, the true freshman on Northwestern. Fast as hell, she's racing in, dumps it to her teammate. The goalie on UNC comes all the way out for the kick safe. What was she doing there? That's Chansey. Imagine if the player just made one move, got around her and wins, but I was watching this live and that moment made me go, oh my goodness, this is a great game. Northwestern has the ball again and this is a clinic. She's gonna bust right through those two defenders. She's gonna toe drag, heck, and then, oh, can't get the shot off. Can't get the little dribbler pass off, but the moves on number two on Northwestern is awesome. Stick handling, she splits the gap there, blows past those two defenders. Now I believe it's her and number 14, so that's not rally heck, and you can see her go little toe tap to get around her. The ball goes around her one way, she goes around her the other way, and then they just close in before she can take the shot, but it does dribble number three and you're thinking, oh my God, is this it? No, not it. So they go to double overtime. North Carolina, great chance here. Spin move, oh, wide, and that would end it. So we go to a shootout. Five players from each team shoot one-on-one against the goalkeeper. Cointoss determines which team goes first. If it's tied after the first series, they go to sudden victory, one for one. These dudes are pumped. And Riley, heck, has got the first shot and she's gonna try her patented spin move and easy, easy, easy goal. You can see what she does here. She, you know, middle school dance style, gets up on the goalie and then wraps her leg around the goalie's legs, which gives her the knowledge of where her clear path is, because the goalie's not past her. She kind of wrapped her up and just throws it in, scores the first one, North Carolina's up, Northwestern though, spin move, all the same underneath the goalie's stick. She kind of was there. She's all over, but it's underneath the little candy cane stick. So North Carolina, oh, a little pump fake backhand through the goalie, but misses the net, tied at one, number two for Northwestern stick handler. Yes, spin moves underneath the goalie's glove this time. So North Carolina's had one go under the stick, one go under the little glove or mitt, I don't know what that is. All right, so Northwestern's up and the Northwestern goalie's aggressive. I love that. She's making the first move. She's like, it's a one-on-one, but I'm gonna force you to do some stuff. Runs all the way out, easy. And then this, oh, North Carolina little kick save, trips her, that had to feel fun. All right, so Northwestern's up and this girl on North Carolina is like, I'll just run past you if you're gonna do that. All right, speedy number three. What's she doing? Dancing, dancing, backhand. She kind of lost the ball before she wanted to shoot. This cracked me up. Both coaches on Northwestern are keeping track. Is it not on the scoreboard? They're both keeping track. They can't look at each other's notes. Pretty funny. So we're tied up with one round left. No! Spin move goes awry. Northwestern scores on this. They win the whole thing. She tries the spin move, loses the ball. She can still score here. It's just a timed one-on-one. Does not. Goalie gets back up into place. The time was winding down, so we go to sudden victory. Everything you want in a championship game. They're noivus, they're noivus, they're noivus. Northwestern is gonna go first. Here she comes. Needs to get it in. Backhand, post up. Spinorama, the goalie crawls, gets in front of it. Huge save! Huge save, because now North Carolina gets to throw Riley Heck out there. She was their leading point scorer, and she scored on her first shootout with that tight spin move. Is she gonna do it again? Is she gonna do it again? Yes, she's gonna do it again! North Carolina wins, she throws her stick. I really like this. See the goalie? Everyone is running towards Riley Heck, because she scored the game winning goal. But the goalie, she is gonna veer towards, I'm guessing, the goalie. She's the only one going the other way, because then goalies stick together, you know? They're all celebrating, having fun. That's unbelievable. National championship game, two over times, and then sudden victory shootout. Wild, awesome. And then the goalies hug, because they get along. Oh, and then the goalie says, Riley, get in here! And Riley gets in there, and so does that girl, and they hug. And the coolest story, Aaron Mattson, gotta be one of the youngest coaches ever to win a national title. She was on the team last year as a player when they beat Northwestern in the championship game. Her first year as head coach, right after graduating, head coach, she coaches them to a championship. They get her a bath or they get her pretty good. Crazy story, crazy championship game. If you're too tough to admit that that was good sporting, then get out of here. If not, subscribe to the channel, I appreciate you watching, and thank you to Seakeak for sponsoring this video, and you can use code Johnboy and get $20 off your first tickets. They got over 70,000 events every single day in your area. Choose one, go to it. Use code Johnboy20off. UNC.