Minneapolis, Minn. – The Crown men's soccer team earned an automatic bid to the NCCAA National Championships in Florida with a 2-1, extra time win in the North Region final on Saturday.  The Polars came back from a 1-0 deficit to defeat Providence University, using a Tim Jaeger brace to clinch their championship berth. 

The final lived up to the standard fans would normally expect from such an occasion, with a hard fought match featuring 40 combined fouls, eight yellow cards, and a sending off in extra time. 

The Pilots, the region's number one seed, took an early lead thanks to an excellent header from a free kick that went in off the underside of the crossbar in the fifth minute. 

The score would remain 1-0 through the hour mark when Jaeger won and then converted a penalty to draw the Polars level in the 65^th minute. 

Despite the lion's share of the possession, Crown couldn't scratch across another goal and the game would head into two mandatory ten minute overtime periods. 

In the 95^th minute, Abel Mabala created some space in the Providence box and drove a ball across the area that Jaeger turned in with a classy first-time finish to give the Polars the lead. 

Crown still had almost 15 minutes to hang on, and things seemed like they would get easier when the Pilot's Wyatt Neufeld was sent off just 42 seconds into the second overtime period for a second yellow-card offence.  The Pilots were able to fashion a trio of excellent chances, however, and Crown survived the onslaught rather than comfortably seeing out the game.

Nonetheless, the Polars claimed the victory and the bid to Kissimmee, Florida in two weeks.