PHILADELPHIA — Chris Cloutier’s goal with 1 minute, 39 seconds left in overtime propelled unseeded North Carolina to a 14-13 win against No. 1 seed Maryland and the program’s first NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse championship since 1991.

North Carolina capped the year with a 12-6 record buoyed by four consecutive wins against seeded opponents in No. 6 Marquette, No. 3 Notre Dame, No. 7 Loyola Maryland and now Maryland. The Tar Heels became the first unseeded team in seven attempts to win the title.

North Carolina's Steve Pontrello holds the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse trophy after a 14-13 win over Maryland at Philadelphia on Monday. The game drew 26,749 fans. The Associated Press by Clem Murray/The Philadelphia Inquirer

Cloutier, who broke Eric Lusby of Loyola’s NCAA tournament record of 17 goals in 2012 with 19 goals during this postseason march, paced the team with five goals. Junior attackman Luke Goldstock scored four times, and redshirt sophomore goalie Brian Balkam made a game-high 13 saves including a stop on sophomore midfielder Connor Kelly during a Terps extra-man opportunity.

Maryland fell to 17-3 and suffered its first loss in 17 contests and first since a 9-4 setback to Notre Dame on March 5. The Terps’ lack of success in NCAA title games is now 0-9 since the 1975 squad captured that championship.

TENNIS

NCAA TOURNAMENT: Mackenzie McDonald became the first player in 15 years to pull off a double national championship.

About four hours after he upset top-seeded Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State 6-3, 6-3, to win the NCAA men’s singles title, McDonald and UCLA teammate Martin Redlicki beat Arthur Rinderknech and Jackson Withrow of Texas A&M to claim the doubles championship at Tulsa, Oklahoma.

McDonald is the first player since Matias Boeker of Georgia in 2001 (and fifth since 1974) to win both titles.

n Danielle Collins of Virginia defeated top-seeded Hayley Carter of North Carolina 6-3, 6-2 for her second NCAA women’s tennis national championship.

Carter (47-5) battled back from a 3-0 deficit to tie the first set 3-3. Collins then won the last three games to take the set. Collins (38-4) rolled to a 5-1 lead in the second set before winning it.

FOOTBALL

BAYLOR: Athletic director Ian McCaw has resigned, less than a week after he was put on probation as part of the school’s reaction to a scathing report about its failure to properly respond to allegations of sexual assaults.

The announcement of McCaw’s resignation came a little more than an hour after Baylor hired former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe to replace the ousted Art Briles.

McCaw, who worked in the UMaine athletic department from 1986 to 1992, said in a statement he was stepping down because it would be help Baylor promote “unity, healing and restoration.”

Last week Briles was suspended with intent to terminate and university president Kenneth Starr was demoted.

McCaw has been AD since 2003, hired after a scandal involving the men’s basketball program led to the resignation of then-athletic director Tom Stanton.

BASEBALL

FLORIDA: The Gators will have to break the curse of the No. 1 seed to win its first national championship in baseball. No top seed has won the title since Miami in 1999.

The Gators were awarded the top seed in the NCAA tournament, leading a record four SEC teams among the eight national seeds. Florida (47-13) was ranked No. 1 in the polls for most of the season and finished runner-up to Texas A&M in the SEC Tournament.

The Gators have been a national seed seven times under Coach Kevin O’Sullivan.

The 16 regionals are Friday to next Monday and include four teams playing a double-elimination format. Regional winners advance to super regionals to determine the eight teams in the College World Series in Omaha beginning June 18.

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