HONESTLY, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO HAS THE BALL RIGHT NOW

I apologize for not knowing enough about lax to describe what's going on right now, but it reminds me a lot of my first high school freshman mixer. There's a lot of parrying and feints and false moves, but no action. I think the Northwestern attack has the ball behind the goal, but no one on UVA is coming out to challenge her. The goalie and one defender are just having a stare down with her, and the other five Wildcat defenders are playing ring-around-the-rosey with one another out at the top of the circle.

This has been going on for about three minutes. It's a sort of mutual delay tactic. Meanwhile, some exec at CSTV is bellowing, "We're NEVER televising this again!"

But actually, we have ourselves a thrilling final right now. UVA has closed to withing 14-13 with less than five minutes to play. Prior to the stall tactic the Cavaliers' Megan O'Malley scored the goal of the match, catching a pass from teammate Ashley McCulloch in mid-jump and firing it before landing for the goal. Great play. You could hear the "Whoa!'s" even in the media section.

Northwestern goalie Morgan Lathrop just made a beatiful save of a shot from near point-blank range. And now Northwestern has gone down for another goal by Katrina Dowd (her third tonight).

It's 15-13, Northwestern, with 2:29 to play.

Attendance for tonight: 6,075. An NCAA women's lax record.

In case I forgot to mention it, this is a rematch of the 2005 title game, which Northwestern won 13-10.