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Chicago Sun-Times
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Associated Press

North Carolina makes field hockey history in national-title win over Northwestern

North Carolina’s Erin Matson won her first field hockey national championship as a coach on Sunday. Last year she won as a Tar Heels player. (Aaron Beard/AP)

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Ryleigh Heck scored in the sixth round of a shootout to lift defending champion North Carolina to a 2-1 win over Northwestern on Sunday in the NCAA Division-I field hockey championships, the 11th title for the Tar Heels.

The game was a rematch of last year’s championship, won by the Tar Heels 2-1, a game that marked the end of Karen Shelton’s 42-year run as the coach and the fourth title for senior Erin Matson. Matson is now the Tar Heels coach and the championship was played in Karen Shelton Stadium.

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