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STORRS — As beautiful as the game is, soccer often comes down to a fortuitous bounce. But such bounces often go the way of those who are in the right place at the right moment.

“Most goals I’ve had this year have been pretty good goals,” UConn’s Austin Brummett was saying Sunday. “I was due for a lucky one. Every striker gets a lucky one, and it was nice that it happened in big game like this, at a big time like that.”

Brummett couldn’t have cut this one down any closer. The public address announcer, Ed Weyant, was counting down the seconds to the first half when Brummett poked one, left-footed from the top of the box, toward the goalkeeper, a routine bit of play, except the ball slipped through Ryan Friedberg’s legs and into the goal wit

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