Michigan Sports
May 12, 2021
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) Erin Matson scored the sudden victory goal in the seventh minute of overtime to lift North Carolina to its third consecutive title with a 4-3 win over Michigan in the NCAA field hockey championship game on Sunday night.
On North Carolina’s second penalty corner in a row, Matson took it to her reverse side and smashed it through the legs of Wolverines goalkeeper Anna Spieker. It was Matson’s third goal of the match and 30th of the season for the top-seeded Tar Heels (19-1).
North Carolina won its third consecutive championship for the second time in program history (1995-97) and tied Old Dominion for an NCAA-best ninth title.
No. 11 Syracuse’s comeback falls short against top-ranked UNC
Meghan Hendricks | Contributing Photographer
Hailey Bitters scored Syracuse s first goal of the game and drew a third-quarter penalty that resulted in another goal.
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SJ Quigley trotted over to the left side of the goal to take the corner late in the fourth quarter. Quigley played the ball to the stick of Kirsten Oudshoorn, who laid it off to Charlotte de Vries. In one touch, de Vries drove the ball into a clump of North Carolina players. Roome Joosten managed to get a touch on the ball before the UNC players and tapped it past them to an open Pleun Lammers, who scored her second goal of the game on an open net. For the first time all game, Syracuse had a lead over No. 1 North Carolina.
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Pro-choice escorts form a line as anti-choice protests break out at abortion clinics across the nation. (Photo via Creative Commons)
Anti-Abortion, Pro-Insurrection
Opponents of the right to choose played a key role in the January 6 uprising in the U.S. Capitol.
Pundits eager to dissect the origins of the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol rarely include the misogynist anti-abortion movement in their musings. But they should. Â
âThere was anger, yes, but the ha-ha joy at how much they could do to take down a palace of power was the same as the Rambo-like âclinic invasionsâ we saw in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It is the presumed entitlement of bullies.â
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Trees and forests: Megaprojects risk pushing forests past tipping point – report | Damian Carrington
Friday 11 December 2020
Huge road, energy and mining projects driving into heart of world’s remaining forests
Infrastructure megaprojects risk pushing the world’s remaining forests past a “dangerous tipping point” and making climate targets unachievable, a report says.
Tens of thousands of miles of roads and railways are planned alongside mines and dams, opening up the forests of South America, south-east Asia and central Africa to destruction, according to the report by a coalition of 25 research and conservation organisations called the New York Declaration on Forests Assessment Partners. Today, almost half of all large mines – more than 1,500 – are in forests.