{"id":5708,"date":"2013-05-27T00:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T04:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5708"},"modified":"2013-07-22T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T14:09:30","slug":"unc-womens-lacrosse-outlasts-terps-to-win-ncaa-title-in-ot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=5708","title":{"rendered":"UNC women&#8217;s lacrosse outlasts Terps to win NCAA title in OT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina has won its first ever NCAA championship in women&#8217;s lacrosse Sunday night as a goal by freshman Sammy Jo Tracy in the third sudden death overtime period lifted Coach Jenny Levy&#8217;s Tar Heels past top-ranked and undefeated Maryland 13-12 at Villanova Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>UNC jumped out to a 9-6 halftime lead before Maryland stormed back to take the lead in the second half with five unanswered goals. UNC followed with three successive goals before the Terps (22-1) sent it to overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina freshman goalkeeper Megan Ward made a huge save on a Maryland breakaway in the opening seconds of the third sudden death overtime period which led to Tracy&#8217;s transition goal on the other end, giving the Tar Heels their first national title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina has won its first ever NCAA championship in women&#8217;s lacrosse Sunday night as a goal by freshman Sammy Jo Tracy in the third&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5708\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}