With penalties feeling like an inevitably between the two stingiest defenses in the nation, a giveaway in the back led to a quick strike from Sam Werner that sealed a third straight national championship for Stanford at Talen Energy Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
“I honestly need to watch the tape,” Werner, a redshirt junior from Bozeman, Mont., told the media after the match. “I'm not really sure what happened but I think Corey (Baird) sent the ball across the box and they cut it out and my first instinct was just step and see if I could get a knick on the ball and knicked it and then I think it just bounced in front of me from and the shot slipped under the crossbar.