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Stanford penalty kicks its way to second straight national championship

No goals, no problem. After 110 minutes of scoreless soccer, Stanford edged Wake Forest in penalty kicks to capture their second straight College Cup title on Sunday afternoon in Houston.

Junior goalkeeper Andrew Epstein, a Colorado Rapids Academy alumnus, made a pair of saves to seal the Cardinal’s second straight championship and extend the school’s streak of national titles to a remarkable 41 straight years.

It was Epstein’s counterpart, Wake Forest freshman Cases Mundet who came up huge late in regulation with a left-handed save to stop an Adrian Alabi header toward goal off a free kick.