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GREENSBORO After nearly 109 minutes of scoreless play and with penalty kicks looming, Amanda Flink scored off a corner kick and Davidson won the Southern Conference women's soccer championship with a 1-0 victory against College of Charleston on Sunday.
It was the Wildcats' first conference championship since 1996 and earned them their first NCAA tournament berth.
Allison Drutchas took the corner kick for Davidson and found Flink, who headed the ball past Cougars goalkeeper Katie Tate.
Davidson's Jessie Baxa made four saves in regulation, and Tate made three.
ACC
CARY Third-seeded North Carolina entered the ACC title game as the lower seed for just the third time in ACC women's soccer championship history, but showed it is still the team to beat as the Tar Heels defeated top seed Florida State 3-0.
The fourth-ranked Tar Heels (17-3-1) scored two goals in the first 13 minutes and added one second-half goal as they avenged an earlier loss to the third-ranked Seminoles (16-4-1).
Casey Nogueira scored the first two goals, and Sterling Smith made it 3-0 at 69 minutes, 16 seconds.
SEC
ORANGE BEACH, Ala. South Carolina won the SEC tournament with an 8-7 edge in penalty kicks against Louisiana State. The title is the first in program history and the first SEC title won by a South Carolina team since the baseball team claimed the 2004 tournament title.
Tournament most valuable player Blakely Mattern scored the tying goal with two minutes remaining, and the Gamecocks (17-3-2) held on for the first penalty kick shootout game in an SEC final since the 2003 season.
