Notre Dame falls one win short of national championship

Notre Dame hoped it could win the College Cup while final exams were going on back at the university. It will have to be content with being the national runner-up after Clemson won the final, 2-1. It was the Tigers’ second national championship in three years and the second time in three years the Irish left the College Cup without winning the final match. By the time Paddy Burns scored the Irish’s first and only goal at the 88:59 mark, the championship already was out of reach as the Tigers already had scored twice, once in each half. In fact,…