UVa's Shure Scores Winner With 11 Seconds Left In 2nd OT
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April 21, 2000
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Virginia sophomore attackman Ian Shure(Lutherville, Md.) scored the game-winning goal — his career-highfourth of the game — with 11 seconds left in the second overtime togive Virginia (9-1) a thrilling 17-16 comeback win in the longest ACCTournament game ever. The game, which was just the second overtime gamein ACC Tournament history, also featured the most goals ever in aconference tournament game (33), breaking the record of 32 set byVirginia (19) and Duke (13) in 1994.
Virginia rallied with six of the game’s final seven goals after fallingbehind 15-11 after UNC’s Joel Miller (Worthington, Ohio) scored hissecond goal of the game with 14:47 left in the fourth quarter. Shurescored the game’s next two goals at 12:21 and 11:36 to draw Virginiawithin two at 15-13. North Carolina (7-5) freshman midfielder AustinGarrison (New Canaan, Conn.) scored his career-best fifth goal of thegame to give the Tar Heels a 16-13 lead with 7:34 left in regulation.
The Cavaliers came back with vengeance as they shut down the Carolinaoffense which registered its highest offensive output of the season with16 goals. Virginia scored three goals in a span of just under twominutes on goals by Conor Gill (Lutherville, Md.), Jay Jalbert(Huntington, N.Y.) and Jason Hard’s (Bridgeport, N.Y.) game-tying goalwith 2:35 left in the fourth quarter.
The overtime sessions featured numerous chances for Virginia, whichwere stopped by North Carolina goalie Kris Blindenbacher (Narbeth, Pa.)on three occasions from point-blank range in the first overtime.Blindenbacher finished with 17 saves.
Along with Garrison’s career-day, Jeff Sonke (Birmingham, Mich.)tallied two goals and three assists for five points. Chase Martin(Owings Mills, Md.) had two goals and two assists for the Heels. ForVirginia, Gill joined Shure with four points in the game. Virginia advances to play the winner of the No. 2 seed Duke vs. No. 3seed Maryland game in the ACC Championship. That game will take place onSunday, April 23 and be broadcast live on HTS at 3:30 p.m.
GAME SCORING
#10 N. CAROLINA (7-5) 5 4 5 2 0 0 -- 16#1 VIRGINIA (9-1) 3 4 4 5 0 1 -- 17
Qtr.-Time Team, Goal (Assist) UNC-UVA
1-13:58 UNC, Chase Martin (Jeff Sonke) 1-0
1-13:45 Virginia, David Jenkins (un) 1-1
1-11:23 UNC, Austin Garrison (Steven Will) 2-1
1-7:45 Virginia, Hanley Holcomb (un) 2-2
1-7:19 UNC, Chase Martin (Bobby Gormsen) 3-2
1-6:34 UNC, Andy Jonas (Jeff Sonke) 4-2
1-4:43 Virginia, Trey Whitty (Ryan Curtis) 4-3
1-1:42 UNC, Austin Garrison (un) 5-3
2-14:03 Virginia, A.J. Shannon (un) 5-4
2-13:27 Virginia, Drew McKnight (un) 5-5
2-11:01 Virginia, A.J. Shannon (un) 5-6
2-10:00 UNC, Peyton Chane (un) 6-6
2-7:23 UNC, Mac Hammer (Chase Martin) 7-6
2-4:21 UNC, Austin Garrison (Steven Will) 8-6
2-1:17 Virginia, Drew McKnight (un) 8-7
2-0:49 UNC, Jeff Sonke (un) 9-7
3-11:30 Virginia, Ian Shure (Conor Gill) 9-8
3-9:11 UNC, Matt Crofton (Jeff Sonke) 10-8
3-9:02 UNC, Joel Miller (un) 11-8
3-8:05 UNC, Steven WIll (Matt Crofton) 12-8
3-7:27 Virginia, Jay Jalbert (Drew McKnight) EMO 12-9
3-6:44 UNC, Jeff Sonke (Chase Martin) 13-9
3-6:05 Virginia, David Jenkins (Brendann Mohler) Man Down 13-10
3-4:49 Virginia, Jason Hard (Conor Gill) 13-11
3-1:44 UNC, Austin Garrison (Steven Will) 14-11
4-14:47 UNC, Joel Miller (Bobby Gormsen) 15-11
4-12:21 Virginia, Ian Shure (un) 15-12
4-11:36 Virginia, Ian Shure (Conor Gill) 15-13
4-7:34 UNC, Austin Garrison (un) 16-13
4-4:19 Virginia, Conor Gill (Brendann Mohler) 16-14
4-3:29 Virginia, Jay Jalbert (un) 16-15
4-2:35 Virginia, Jason Hard (un) 16-16
OT2-0:11 Virginia, Ian Shure (Mark Koontz) 16-17
INDIVIDUAL SCORINGNorth CarolinaScorers Goals-Asst.-Pts.Austin Garrison 5-0-5Jeff Sonke 2-3-5Chase Martin 2-2-4Steven Will 1-3-4Joel Miller 2-0-2Bobby Gormsen 0-2-2Matt Crofton 1-1-2Peyton Chane 1-0-1Mac Hammer 1-0-1Andy Jonas 1-0-1
VirginiaScorers Goals-Asst.-Pts.Ian Shure 4-0-4Conor Gill 1-3-4Drew McKnight 2-1-3Jason Hard 2-0-2Jay Jalbert 2-0-2David Jenkins 2-0-2A.J. Shannon 2-0-2Brendann Mohler 0-2-2Hanley Holcomb 1-0-1Trey Whitty 1-0-1Ryan Curtis 0-1-1
GOALIESNorth CarolinaGoalies Saves GA Min.Kris Blindenbacher 17 17 68
VirginiaGoalies Saves GA Min.Derek Kenney 6 16 68
TEAM STATSCategory North Carolina VirginiaShots 9-13-8-7-0-4=41 8-9-11-14-4-1=47Saves 3-2-4-4-3-1=17 0-4-1-1-0-0=6Face-Offs 14/37 23/37Groundballs 13-18-12-13-4-3=63 14-9-21-22-5-5=76Clears 20/33 16/26Extra-Man Opp. 0/3 1/4Penalties 4/3:00 3/2:30