Triple Championship Sunday
Two national titles and one world championship for teams and players from Southern California in one day?
Believe it.
Not only did Cal State Dominguez Hills win a second national championship earlier today, but Rolling Hills Estates' Whitney Engen went the full 90 as North Carolina came from behind to beat Notre Dame 2-1 today in the NCAA Women's College Cup.
To top things off, North Korea couldn't stop Bruin Sydney Leroux from getting her tournament-leading fifth goal of the FIFA Under-20 Women's World Cup and the U.S. duly won 2-1 to take the title in Chile.
About 100 Percent Soccer
Sportswriter Nick Green has written the 100 Percent Soccer column since 2005 for the Daily News, Daily Breeze and other Los Angeles area newspapers. The blog of the same name began in 2007. A native of England, he began writing about soccer in the mid-1980s and in 2000 permanently exchanged a seat in the stands for one in the press box. He lives six miles from Carson's Home Depot Center, home of the Los Angeles Galaxy, Chivas USA and the training headquarters for U.S. Soccer and is married to a long-suffering soccer widow. Join Nick on FaceBook and follow him on Twitter.
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