Stanford led Notre Dame 2-1 with 12 seconds left of their first-round matchup within the ACC males’s soccer event Wednesday evening.
The Cardinal received 3-2.
The Irish scored on an oblique free kick from contained in the penalty space to tie the sport with 10 seconds left as Mitch Ferguson’s shot deflected off a Cardinal defender and previous goalkeeper Rowan Schnebly, whose time losing had drawn a yellow card to arrange the free kick.
Dylan Hooper bailed out his keeper, although and even averted time beyond regulation.
When the Cardinal kicked off to restart play, Hooper took the ball inside his personal half whereas his teammates ran downfield. He dribbled previous one Irish defender and launched a left-footed Hail Mary earlier than crossing the midfield stripe. Improbably, it hit the again of the Notre Dame web.
Notre Dame keeper Collin Travasos appeared to have a beat on the ball as he backtracked towards his aim line, however appeared to let it go by, pondering it’d exit of bounds. As an alternative, it tucked into the higher proper nook of the online, giving the Cardinal a lead with two seconds left.
Hooper advised the college’s athletics web site that the shot was “probably the highlight of my career.”
Notre Dame’s personal Hail Mary went large of the online as time ran out.
“I’ve seen a lot and have been in a lot of games, but I don’t think I have ever seen anything like that at the end of the game,” Stanford coach Jeremy Gunn advised GoStanford.com.
Stanford had taken a 2-1 lead simply 5 minutes earlier than the sequence when Will Reilley transformed a penalty kick after an Irish handball. Jackson Kill additionally scored for the Cardinal within the first half, equalizing after a Stanford handball within the field gave Notre Dame a penalty that Matthew Roou transformed.
Stanford will journey to South Carolina to face No. 2 seed Clemson at 11 a.m. Sunday within the second spherical.
