Minneapolis, MN — Monday night, North Central University (NCU) Rocket League took on Simpson College (SC) in a best-of-7 match for the NACE East 9 Conference Championship. After losing in the championship match in their inaugural fall season, Team Gold looked to become the first team in NCU Esports history to bring home a championship title. The Rams would do just that with a dominating 4-0 sweep to bring home the victory.
Game 1 (4-1 W)
• NCU would start the series hot scoring 3 goals in the first 90 seconds
• The team would score 1 more goal to bring NCU's game one total to 4
• In the last 30 seconds, Simpson College would score their lone goal for the first game
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Ryan "maui" Mau would be a constant source of pressure for NCU's offense with 2 goals scored and 8 shots on goal.
Mau would also have 2 assists
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Thomas "trippie_tom" Heimer would score the Rams' other two goals with 100% accuracy off of his two shots on goal
Game 2 (1-0 W)
• Simpson would bring in a sub for game 2 of the series to try to bring a refresh to their squad
• Both teams would play strong defensively in game two with both teams having only 7 shots on goal, many of which were blocked, leading to an overtime
• After nearly two minutes of overtime,
Micah " miciliux" Headley would pass off the backboard to
Mau who would score the game winning goal
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• Mau would also have 4 saves in this game
Game 3 (3-1 W)
• The first 2 minutes saw both teams locking horns, neither able to gain the advantage
• Simpson would up their aggressiveness, creating a gap in the defense that
Mau would capitalize off by flicking a goal over the defender from mid-field
• Momentum firmly on NCU's side,
Mau would score again off a backboard flick from
Headley
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Mau would return the favor passing off the back wall to
Headley who would score their third goal
• Getting carried away, NCU would find themselves over-aggressing leaving their defense open for Simpson to score
• Still not enough, the Rams pull out the game 3 victory
Game 4 (6-0 W)
• Going into match series, North Central looked to seal their first championship by playing fast and aggressive rotations allowing no goals to be scored by SC
• NCU would ultimately have 11 shots on goal in the final game
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Mau would score 4 goals including a goal scored in the final seconds of the game as a punctuation to their dominant championship win
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Heimer and
Headley would score 1 goal a piece to round out the final match of the season
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