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Despite losing a pair of starters, you could certainly make a case that the Tar Heels may be even more potent this season.

Top-ranked North Carolina won its first Atlantic Coast Conference field hockey championship since 2004 on Sunday with a dramatic 4-3 overtime win over third-ranked Wake Forest at the Newton Campus Turf Field in Newton, Mass.Rachel Dawson, a senior defender for the Tar Heels, scored the game-winner for North Carolina on a penalty stroke goal in overtime and was named the tournament’s MVP.

North Carolina remained unbeaten, improving to 20-0. Wake Forest dropped to 14-5.