[trisoccerfan] RailHawks delight fans with fantastic finish

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W. Jarrett Campbell

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Sep 20, 2008, 11:28:57 PM9/20/08

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RailHawks delight fans with fantastic finish

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The Carolina RailHawks had to win Saturday night in their season finale to have any hope of making the USL-1 playoffs. And just when it looked like a Kupono Low penalty miss and a great performance in goal from Chase Harrison would keep the RailHawks scoreless, Martin Nuñez, who earlier in the evening had been crowned a co-offensive player of the season along with Santiago Fusilier, found the game winner in the 4th minute of stoppage time to give Carolina a 1-0 victory. With the RailHawks playing up a man for the final 20 minutes and attacking relentlessly, they finally broke through on the penultimate play of the match when a Mauricio Segovia looping throughball caught Portland out trying to press a high offside trap. Harrison had to sprint outside his penalty area where he could not use his hands. He misjudged the wildly bouncing ball with his feet an as he collided with another RailHawks' attacker, the ball squirted free to the diminutive Argentinian who calmy fired home the game winner sending WakeMed soccer park into delirium.

The festive celebration of the dramatic season-ending victory went on for some time, even after many of the folks in the stadium had learned that indeed Minnesota had beaten Montreal 3-1 to eliminate Carolina from contention for the final USL-1 playoff spot.

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