Carolina Returns To Kenan Saturday To Meet Mountain Hawks

Saturday, February 17

Chapel Hill, N.C. (Kenan Stadium)

12 Noon

North Carolina

Lehigh

Timmy Kelly and the Tar Heels face Lehigh Saturday at noon at Kenan Stadium.

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

February 14, 2018 | Men's Lacrosse

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#13 Tar Heels face Lehigh at noon

By: Dave Lohse

Tar Heels Seek 3-0 Start As They Meet Lehigh Saturday

2018 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA MEN'S LACROSSE GAME NOTES
Game 3: North Carolina Tar Heels (2-0, ranked #13 in USILA/NIKE Division I Men's Lacrosse Coaches Preseason Poll, ranked #14 in Inside Lacrosse Maverik Media Preseason Poll) vs. Lehigh Mountain Hawks (2-0)
Saturday, February 17, 2018
12:00 p.m. EDT
Kenan Stadium
Chapel Hill, N.C.
KEY LINKS FOR SATURDAY'S GAME
Live Stats: UNC Stat Broadcast
Telecast: ACC Network Extra
UNC Media Guide: 2018 Media Guide
Player Roster & Coaches' Bios: GoHeels.com Roster Page
2018 Statistics: Individual Stats
2018 Game Notes: Game Notes
UNC Lacrosse Social Media Links: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram

TAR HEELS CONTINUE HOMESTAND AGAINST LEHIGH SATURDAY: The 2018 University of North Carolina men's lacrosse team will conclude a three-game season-opening home stand Saturday when the Tar Heels host the Lehigh University Mountain Hawks at 12 noon. The game will be played at Kenan Stadium. Admission is free. Parking is free for fans in the Bell Tower Parking Deck on the west end of Kenan Stadium and is available for an hourly free in the Rams Head Parking Deck on the stadium's east end.
North Carolina opened its 2018 season on February 3 with a 17-10 victory over Lafayette College at Kenan Stadium. Carolina then survived a spirited challenge from Coach Richie Meade's Furman Paladins team last Saturday, emerging with a 15-14 overtime victory. After meeting the Mountain Hawks on Saturday, UNC will play its first road game of the season at Johns Hopkins on Friday, February 23 at 5 p.m. That game will be nationally televised on ESPNU.
After the game at Johns Hopkins, the Tar Heels will return to Kenan Stadium for their second three-game home stand of the season when they play three games in a span of just six days, meeting Mercer on February 28, St. John's on March 3 and Denver on March 5.

GAME DETAILS: North Carolina and Lehigh will both be playing their third games of the 2018 season on Saturday when they meet at 12 noon at Kenan Stadium. The Mountain Hawks are currently 2-0 after defeating New Jersey Institute of Technology 13-8 on February 3 and Mercer 13-8 on February 10. The Tar Heels opened their season on February 3 at Kenan Stadium with a 17-10 victory over Lafayette College and then prevailed in overtime against Furman last Saturday at Kenan Stadium by a 15-14 score.
Live stats will be available on game day on GoHeels.com. Please check back Saturday around 11:45 a.m. to see the live link. The Tar Heels use Stat Broadcast as their live stats platform on GoHeels.com.
Saturday's game will be webcast nationally by ACC Network Extra with live streaming on WatchESPN and ESPNTheApp. Dean Linke will serve as the play by play announcer for the game on ACC Network Extra. Willie Scroggs will serve as the game's color analyst.
The link to the UNC versus Lehigh live webcast on the ACC Network Extra can be found here.

GAME OF RUNS ENDS IN OVERTIME WITH TAR HEELS TOPPING PALADINS: The ninth-ranked University of North Carolina men's lacrosse team weathered a furious second half rally by Furman February 10 to win 15-14 on a Justin Anderson goal just 31 seconds into the sudden victory period at Kenan Stadium before a crowd of 845 rain-soaked fans.
Anderson, a sophomore from Las Vegas, Nev., assisted on Chris Cloutier's game-tying goal with 1:16 left in regulation and then he scored the game-winner with 3:29 left in the first overtime period to lift the Tar Heels to 2-0 on the season. Despite trailing by six goals with less than four minutes left in the third quarter, the Paladins (now 0-2) scored eight of the next nine goals of the game and took a 14-13 lead on an extra-man goal by Mike Liscombe with 2:09 to play in the game.
It was the first overtime game for the Tar Heels since May 30, 2016 when UNC beat Maryland 14-13 in an extra session in the NCAA championship game at Philadelphia, Pa.
Senior attackman Chris Cloutier led the Tar Heels offensively with five goals and an assist while sophomore midfielder Tanner Cook scored five goals, including four in the first half, on just seven shots. The sophomore midfielder's previous career high for goals in a game was three last Saturday versus Lafayette. Justin Anderson had the game-winning goal and his three assists were a career high. He had never had more than one assist in a game in his career prior to Saturday. Sophomore midfielder William Perry had two goals and an assist for Carolina while Andy Matthews had a pair of assists and Timmy Kelly had a goal and an assist.
UNC dominated the game statistically but it was never able to put the Paladins away in the second half. The Tar Heels outshot Furman 45-36, won the ground ball battle 43-26 and was in control at the face-off X, winning 21 of 32 draws. But the Tar Heels committed 17 turnovers to just 14 for Furman and the Paladins' made 13 saves in goal while a pair of UNC goalkeepers combined for just nine.
Both Charles Kelly and Riley Graham were above 50 percent at the face-off X to help lead Carolina to the win. Kelly won 11-of-14 draws and Graham won 10-of-18. The two Tar Heels tied for the game-high ground ball total on the day with six each. Cloutier had five ground balls for Carolina and defenseman Brandon Bank led Furman with five ground balls.
The 11 face-off wins by Kelly versus Furman were the most he has had in a game in his career. His previous career high was seven versus Michigan on February 6, 2016.

CLOUTIER NAMED TO USILA TEAM OF THE WEEK: The United State Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association has instituted a 10-man National Team of the Week for the first time in 2018. The initial Tar Heel tapped for the team is senior attackman Chris Cloutier of Kitchener, Ontario. Cloutier was named to the team on February 12 after scoring five goals and adding an assist in the Tar Heels' 15-14 overtime victory over Furman.
Cloutier forced overtime with a goal with 1:16 to play in regulation and sophomore Justin Anderson won the game for the Tar Heels 31 seconds into overtime.

TAR HEELS IN OVERTIME UNDER BRESCHI: Carolina's 15-14 win over Furman on February 11 marked the 11^th time the Tar Heels have played overtime in Coach Joe Breschi's 10 seasons as head coach. UNC is 6-5 in those 11 overtime contests and has won the last three games that have gone to extra time.

CAROLINA OPENS WITH WIN OVER LEOPARDS: Ten different Tar Heel players scored goals on February 3 as the ninth-ranked University of North Carolina men's lacrosse team defeated Lafayette 17-10 in both team's season openers at Kenan Stadium. The Tar Heels' balanced scoring effort was led by hat tricks by attackman Timmy Kelly and midfielder Tanner Cook as the Tar Heels won their season opener for the 20^th year in a row in front of a crowd of 1,112 fans.
Lafayette outshot the Tar Heels 46-38 in the game and the Leopards won the battle at the face-off X by a margin of 19-12. But Carolina shot the ball with more accuracy, tallying 17 goals on 27 shots on goal. While Carolina committed 16 turnovers, the Leopards had 24 turnovers and that negated much of the Leopards' edge in face-offs. UNC had 33 ground balls to 29 for Lafayette. Seventeen different Tar Heels recorded ground balls for UNC led by Riley Graham with five and Ryan Macri with four.
Jonathan Anastos played the whole game in goal for the Tar Heels and made 10 saves while allowing 17 goals. UNC played two goalkeepers. Freshman goalie Luke Millican played the first 50:48 and made eight saves while allowing seven goals. Jack Pezzulla played the final 9:12 in the cage and had three saves and three goals allowed.
Carolina was led in scoring by Timmy Kelly and Chris Cloutier with four points each as Kelly had three goals and an assist and Cloutier rung up two goals and two helpers. Tanner Cook added a hat trick for Carolina and William Perry and Brian Cannon each scored twice. Freshman Colin Munro had a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels while Andy Matthews added a pair of assists for UNC.
With two goals Saturday, Chris Cloutier scored a goal in his 21^st straight game, matching Jimmy Bitter for the seventh longest goal scoring streak in Tar Heel history. Andy Matthews had two assists for the Tar Heels and he has now posted helpers in 10 straight games, matching John Webster for the ninth longest streak in UNC history.

NEW VENUE FOR 2018: At the conclusion of the 2017 lacrosse season, historic Fetzer Field was razed. Construction on a new Fetzer Field, which will house the men's and women's soccer and lacrosse programs at Carolina, began in May 2017. The new Fetzer Field will reopen in August 2018.
In the interim, North Carolina will play all eight of its home games in 2018 in Kenan Stadium, the Tar Heels' historic football stadium which opened 91 years ago in 1927. All home games will be free of charge.
Fans are encouraged to sit on the South Side of the stadium and enter through gate 5 on the West end of Kenan Stadium. Parking for weekend games will be free in the Bell Tower Parking Deck. Parking will also be available in the Rams Head Parking Lot for a fee on game days. The Rams Head Deck is on the East side of the stadium.
Concessions on game days will only be available on the South Side of the stadium. Seating on the North Side of Kenan Stadium is not available this spring as new seats are being installed.
The original Fetzer Field was built in 1935 and had served as the home of the Tar Heel men's lacrosse program since 1949, its first varsity campaign. The original Fetzer Field was built as a Works Progress Administration program during the Great Depression.

TAR HEELS IN THE POLLS: North Carolina entered the 2018 season coming off an 8-8 campaign in 2017 in which it won the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship and earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the 11^th straight season.
Carolina began the 2018 campaign ranked ninth in the Inside Lacrosse Maverik preseason media poll. Coach Joe Breschi's Tar Heels were also ranked ninth in the preseason United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association preseason coaches' poll.
The first regular season polls were released on February 12. After starting the season 2-0, Carolina is ranked #13 this week in the USILA coaches poll and #14 this week in the Inside Lacrosse Maverik media poll.

TWO TAR HEELS NAMED PRESEASON ALL-ACC: A pair of Tar Heel veterans were named to the preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference Team selected by the league's five head coaches and released by the conference office on Tuesday, January 30.
Senior attackman Chris Cloutier and junior defenseman Jack Rowlett were named to the preseason All-ACC Team. Both are entering their third years as starters for the Tar Heels. Cloutier was the Most Valuable Player of the 2017 ACC Tournament when the Tar Heels won their 13^th league title in history.

CAROLINA PICKED TO FINISH THIRD IN ACC: The North Carolina men's lacrosse team was picked to finish third in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2018. The preseason poll voted on by the league's five head coaches was released on Tuesday, January 30. The Tar Heels are the defending Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament champions after having finished fourth in last year's ACC regular season standings.
Duke and Notre Dame are tied atop the 2018 preseason poll with 17 points each in the rating. The Tar Heels are picked third with 12 poll points. Syracuse is fourth with nine poll points and Virginia is fifth with six poll points.

CAROLINA SQUAD CHOOSES FIVE CAPTAINS FOR 2018 TEAM: The University of North Carolina men's lacrosse program, under the leadership of Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi, elected five players to serve as team captains for the 2018 season.
The 2018 Tar Heel team captains include:
• Senior attackman Chris Cloutier of Kitchener, Ontario
• Senior defenseman Joe Kenna of Chantilly, Va.
• Senior defenseman Ryan Macri of Hamilton, Mass.
• Senior defenseman Kyle Mathie of Smithtown, N.Y.
• Senior midfielder William McBride of Baltimore, Md.
McBride is the second member of his family to serve as a Tar Heel captain. His brother Greg McBride served as a team captain in 2014.
Macri served as a team captain on the Tar Heels' ACC championship team in 2017. He is one of just eight individuals to serve as a team captain in multiple years for the Tar Heel program, joining the following players who were all two-time team captains.
• Ryan Macri, 2017-18
• Austin Pifani, 2016-17
• Mark Rizzo, 2016-17
• Marcus Holman, 2012-13
• Mike Munnelly, 2007-08
• Austin Garrison, 2002-03
• Joey Seivold, 1986-87
• Lew Floyd, 1953-54

CONGRATULATIONS MARCUS: The U.S. men's lacrosse national team named its 23-player travel roster that will represent the United States in the Federation of International Lacrosse Men's World Championship July 12-21 in Netanya, Israel.
The U.S. team will again include 2013 University of North Carolina alumnus Marcus Holman, who also played on the National Team when the World Championships were held in Denver, Colo., in 2014. The U.S. Team won a silver medal in that event.

28 TAR HEELS NAMED TO ACC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL IN 2016-17: A record 385 University of North Carolina student-athletes were named to the 2016-17 Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, announced on July 13, 2017 by the league. It was the second year in a row and the fourth time in the past five years that UNC has established a new high and the fifth year in a row that more than 300 Tar Heel student-athletes have been honored.
Coach Joe Breschi's North Carolina men's lacrosse team was responsible for 28 of the 385 Tar Heels on the Honor Roll last school year. Fifty-six percent of the team's 50 members were tapped for the Honor Roll. The ACC champion 2017 Tar Heels placed four more members on the team than the outstanding number of 24 tapped from 2016's NCAA championship squad for the 2015-16 Honor Roll.
Overall, the 2016-17 school year honorees included freshman Justin Anderson, senior Brian Balkam, sophomore Alex Bassil, junior Bug Carper, freshman Tanner Cook, junior Matt Cunningham, junior Mike D'Alessandro, senior Luke Goldstock, junior Riley Graham, sophomore Jack Halpert, sophomore Cole Haverty, senior Stephen Kelly, sophomore Timmy Kelly, senior Peyton Klawinski, senior Jack Lambert, freshman Patrick Lyons, freshman Cam Macri, junior Ryan Macri, junior Kyle Mathie, sophomore Andy Matthews, junior Patrick McCormick, sophomore Michael Nathan, senior Austin Pifani, sophomore Jordan Prysko, senior Mark Rizzo, freshman Tyler Seminetta, sophomore Kevin Walker and senior Luke Walsh.

TAR HEELS ON TV IN 2018: Carolina will have four of its 14 regular season games televised on ESPNU in 2018. In addition to that, seven more games will be televised on ACC Network Extra with live streaming on WatchESPN and the ESPNApp.
The 2018 ESPNU schedule is as follows:
• Friday, February 23, 5 p.m., North Carolina at Johns Hopkins
• Friday, March 30, 5 p.m., North Carolina at Duke
• Saturday, April 14, 4 p.m., North Carolina at Syracuse
• Saturday, April 21, 12 p.m., Notre Dame at North Carolina
The 2018 ACC Network Extra schedule is as follows:
• Saturday, February 3, 12 p.m., Lafayette at North Carolina
• Saturday, February 10, 12 p.m., Furman at North Carolina
• Saturday, February 17, 12 p.m., Lehigh at North Carolina
• Wednesday, February 28, 4 p.m., Mercer at North Carolina
• Saturday, March 3, 10:30 a.m., St. John's at North Carolina
• Monday, March 5, 4 p.m., Denver at North Carolina
• Saturday, April 7, 6 p.m., Virginia at North Carolina

CAROLINA VERSUS LEHIGH THE SERIES: North Carolina and Lehigh will be playing for the 12th time in history on Saturday. The game on Saturday will mark the 10th time in 12 meetings that the teams will have played in Chapel Hill.
Following is the series history:
April 4, 1951 - Lehigh 6, UNC 3 – at Chapel Hill
April 10, 1952 – Lehigh 8, UNC 8 – at Chapel Hill
March 14, 1995 – UNC 12, Lehigh 11, 3 overtimes – at Chapel Hill
March 13, 1996 – UNC 17, Lehigh 8 – at Chapel Hill
May 4, 2000 – UNC 11, Lehigh 10 – at Chapel Hill
February 28, 2009 – UNC 14, Lehigh 8 – at Brooklandville, Md.
February 20, 2010 – UNC 17, Lehigh 5 – at Chapel Hill
February 17, 2011 – UNC 15, Lehigh 8 – at Bethlehem, Pa.
March 3, 2012 – Lehigh 9, UNC 8 – at Chapel Hill
May 11, 2013 – Lehigh 16, UNC 7, NCAA First Round – at Chapel Hill
March 18, 2017 – UNC 15, Lehigh 8 – at Chapel Hill

EARLIEST GAME IN CAROLINA HISTORY: When North Carolina played Lafayette in Kenan Stadium on February 3, it marked the earliest date on which the Tar Heels have ever played a game in their history dating back to 1949. The previous earliest game was on February 4, 2017 when UNC defeated UMBC 17-6 in Raleigh, N.C.

CLOUTIER'S GOAL SCORING & POINTS STREAKS: Junior attackman Chris Cloutier heads into the Lehigh game with a 22-game goal scoring streak. That is tied for the sixth longest goal scoring streak in Tar Heel history with Bert Fett who also scored in 22 straight games from 1973-75.
During Cloutier's 22-game scoring streak (four games in 2016, 16 games in 2017, 2 games in 2018) he has scored 62 goals. Cloutier currently has the second longest active goal scoring streak in NCAA Division I lacrosse. The only player with a longer streak is Duke's Justin Guterding who has scored goals in 30 straight games dating back to March 26, 2016. Cloutier's current goal-scoring skein began on May 14, 2016 against Marquette in the first round of that year's NCAA Tournament.
Cloutier also has at least one point in 22 successive games. That's the 18^th longest points streak in Tar Heel lore. During those 22 games, Cloutier has been responsible for 82 points on 62 goals and 18 assists. Cloutier's 22-game point streak is 13^th amongst current streaks in NCAA Division I.

Andy Matthews ASSIST STREAK: Junior attackman Andy Matthews has recorded at least one assist in 11 successive games heading into the Lehigh game on Saturday. Matthews began his assist streak against Dartmouth on March 18, 2017. His 11-game assist streak matches the ninth longest streak in UNC lacrosse history. Jed Prossner also assisted in 11 successive games from 2004-05.

Chris Cloutier ON CAREER CHARTS: Junior attackman Chris Cloutier (Kitchener, Ontario) has scored 87 career goals at Carolina heading into the Lehigh game. Cloutier is currently in 22nd place in UNC goal scoring history and he would need to score 41 goals the remainder of this season to tie Bert Fett (1972-75) for the career record of 128 goals.
Cloutier needs three goals to tie David Wingate (1980-83) and Justin Bowman (1996-99) for 20^th place in Tar Heel career goal scoring.
The senior attackman is currently in 30th place in points in Carolina history with 118. He has 87 goals and 31 assists in his career.

POTENTIAL STARTING LINEUP: North Carolina's tentative starting lineup against Lehigh could look something like the following:
Attack – #15 Timmy Kelly (Jr.), #45 Chris Cloutier (Sr.), #12 Andy Matthews (Jr.)
Attack Reserves — #1 Alex Trippi (Fr.), #6 Mike Guerin (So.), #55 Matt Cunningham (Sr.)
1st Midfield — #77 Tanner Cook (So.), #21 Justin Anderson (So.), #3 William Perry (So.)
2nd Midfield — #11 Brian Cannon (So.), #16 Sean Morris (Fr.), #41 Colin Munro (Fr.)
3rd Midfield — #18 Ryan O'Connor (So.), #17 Ryan O'Connell (Fr.), #31 Steven Schneider (Fr.)
Short Stick Defensive Midfielders — #11 William McBride (Sr.), #19 Timmy Gehlbach (Sr.), #23 Parker Alexander (Fr.), #40 Cole Haverty (Jr.), #49 Matt McLaughlin (Fr.)
Long Stick Defensive Midfielders — #4 Jack Halpert (Jr.), #22 Jack Rowlett (Jr.), #43 Michael Nathan (Jr.)
Face-Offs — #25 Riley Graham (Sr.), #26 Charles Kelly (Jr.)
Close Defense Starters — #37 Joe Kenna (Sr.), #20 Ryan Macri (Sr.), #88 Kyle Mathie (Sr.)
Close Defense Reserves – #0 Jake Peden (Sr.), #29 Patrick Lyons (So.), #50 Kevin Walker (Jr.)
Goalkeeper — #34 Luke Millican (Fr.)
Backup Goalkeeper — #42 Jack Pezzulla (So.)

TAR HEELS AT KENAN STADIUM: Because of field improvements last spring at Kenan Stadium, 2017 marked the first year since 2012 that the Tar Heels did not play a game at Kenan Stadium, the home of the football Tar Heels.
UNC is back in Kenan Stadium on a full-time basis in 2018 for eight home games as the new Fetzer Field in being completed on campus.
North Carolina had a 6-0 mark in games played at Kenan Stadium from 2012-16 after beating Notre Dame 17-15 there on April 23, 2016.
UNC's last loss in the Tar Heel football stadium came on April 26, 2009 when Duke defeated Carolina 15-13 in the ACC Tournament championship game.
The Tar Heels have defeated Virginia twice (2013 ACC Tournament championship game & 2016 regular season game) and Duke (2013 ACC Tournament semifinals), Johns Hopkins (2013 regular season), Maryland (2014 regular season), Notre Dame (2016 regular season), Lafayette (2018 regular season) and Furman (2018 regular season) once each in its past eight games at Kenan Stadium.
Since his arrival as UNC head coach for the 2009 season, Coach Joe Breschi's teams are 9-2 in games played in Kenan Stadium. UNC hosted the ACC Tournament in Kenan Stadium in both 2009 and 2013 during Breschi's tenure. UNC has won nine of its past 10 games played at Kenan Stadium dating to the 2009 ACC Tournament semifinals against Maryland.

UNC HEAD COACH JOE BRESCHI: Joe Breschi, UNC Class of 1990, leads the Tar Heels in his 10th season at Carolina. Breschi is 104-48 in his 10 years at Carolina, a winning percentage of 68.4 percent. He also coached 11 years at Ohio State and is 196-111 overall in 21 seasons as a collegiate head coach. His overall winning percentage at Ohio State and UNC combined is 63.8 percent. On April 9, 2017, UNC head coach Joe Breschi won his 100th game at Carolina. His 100th win came in Carolina's 15-12 victory against Virginia at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. His 190th overall coaching victory came in a 13-9 victory over #1-ranked Denver on March 4, 2017 in Denver, Colo. Breschi needs four more victories to achieve the 200 mark in his collegiate coaching career.
Breschi Coaching Facts:
• 104-48 in 10 seasons at UNC (68.4)
• 196-111 in 21 seasons overall (63.8)
• 22-19 in one-goal games at UNC
• 56-42 versus ranked teams at UNC; 48-6 versus unranked teams at UNC
• 81-21 versus non-conference teams at UNC
• 62-16 in home games at UNC

UNC VERSUS?RANKED?OPPONENTS UNDER?COACH?BRESCHI: North?Carolina has played nationally ranked (USILA coaches poll) opponents 98 times in Joe Breschi's 10-year coaching tenure. UNC?is 56-42 in those games, a winning percentage of 57.1 percent.
Conversely, and as would be expected, the Tar Heels are 48-6 against unranked opponents in Breschi's 10 seasons for an outstanding winning percentage of 88.9 percent. Breschi is 104-48 overall at Carolina in his 10 seasons as head coach. During Breschi's tenure, UNC's only losses to unranked teams came at Ohio State in 2011, at home to Lehigh in 2012, at Pennsylvania in 2012, at home to Hofstra in 2016, at Massachusetts in 2016 and at home against Hofstra in 2017.

CAROLINA'S STELLAR MARK IN NON-CONFERENCE GAMES: UNC's record in non-conference games continues to be one of the best in the nation over the past 13 seasons, dating back to 2006. The Tar Heels have won 102 of their last 127 games against non-conference teams dating back to April 15, 2006 when the Tar Heels beat Fairfield 18-9 at Kenan Stadium.
In Joe Breschi's 10 seasons as head coach, the Tar Heels are a brilliant 81-21 against non-conference teams, a winning percentage of 79.4. The only non-conference losses were to Notre Dame in 2009, to Ohio State and Johns Hopkins in 2011, to Lehigh, Pennsylvania and Denver in 2012, to Massachusetts, Notre Dame and Denver in 2013, to Denver in 2014, to Maryland twice in 2015, to Hofstra, Denver, Massachusetts and Maryland in 2016 and to Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Richmond, Maryland and Albany in 2017.

NEAR DOMINANCE AT HOME UNDER BRESCHI: UNC?is 62-16 in home games in Coach Joe Breschi's 10 years at the helm of the Tar Heels. That's a winning percentage of 79.5 percent. UNC's only home losses during Breschi's 10-year tenure include regular-season and ACC Tournament games to Duke in 2009, a regular-season loss to Duke in 2011, an NCAA Tournament loss to Maryland in 2011, regular-season losses to Lehigh and Virginia and an NCAA Tournament loss to Denver in 2012, a regular-season loss to Duke in 2013, a regular-season loss to Notre Dame in 2014 regular-season losses to Hofstra and Denver in 2016 and regular-season losses to Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Richmond, Maryland, Duke and Syracuse in 2017.
The Tar Heels had won 17 successive home games under Breschi's tutelage from 2014-16 before being upset at home by Hofstra on February 20, 2016. That 17-game home winning streak had begun against Bucknell with a 20-4 win on March 11, 2014.

CAROLINA IN HOME GAMES: North?Carolina has an all-time record of 287-129-2 in home games. That included a perfect 11-0 record in 2015. In Joe Breschi's eight-year tenure as head coach he has twice led Carolina to unbeaten records at home – 7-0 in 2010 and 11-0 in 2015. Since 1949, UNC has had eight undefeated home seasons, two under the tutelage of Breschi. UNC?has a 68.9 percent winning percentage all-time in history in home games.

THE ALL-TIME RECORD: North Carolina has an all-time record of 492-296-2 in the sport of men's lacrosse. That is a winning percentage of .624.

CAROLINA'S IMPROVEMENT IN ONE-GOAL DECISIONS: Prior to Joe Breschi taking over as head coach in 2009, UNC went 1-7 in games decided by one goal from midway through the 2004 season through the end of the 2008 campaign. Carolina has improved tremendously in one-goal games since Breschi arrived for the 2009 season. UNC is 22-19 in games decided by one goal over the past 10 years with Breschi at the helm.

CAROLINA'S DOUBLE DIGIT SCORING GAMES: In Coach Joe Breschi's 10 years as head lacrosse coach at UNC, Carolina's success has in large part been tied to hitting the 10-goal plateau in a game. In fact, UNC's 15-12 loss to Albany on May 13, 2017, marked only the 17th time in Breschi's coaching tenure that the Tar Heels have lost when they have reached the 10-goal plateau.
UNC has scored at least 10 goals in a game in 113 of 152 games under Coach Breschi's direction dating back to the opening game of the 2009 season. Carolina is 96-17 in those 113 games, a winning clip of .849. As would be expected, in the 39 games under Coach Breschi's tutelage in which the Tar Heels have not reached the 10-goal mark, UNC has not fared nearly as well as when it scores in double figures. In fact, the Tar Heels' record in those 39 games?is just 8-31, a winning percentage of .210.
Carolina's last win in which it was held to single digits came against Furman in a 7-3 decision on February 11, 2017. That marked the first game the Tar Heels had won in which both teams scored in single digits since a 9-8 win over Princeton on March 10, 2012.
The 10 goals in the UNC-Furman game were the fewest combined goals in a Tar Heel game since Februrary 13, 2010 when UNC beat Bryant 5-4 in Chapel Hill at Navy Field.
In 2017, UNC was 6-3 when scoring in double digits and 1-5 when being held in single digits. The Tar Heels are 2-0 in games in which they have scored in double digits in 2018.

UNC CLAIMS ANOTHER SEASON OPENING WIN: The Tar Heels beat Lafayette 17-10 in their 2018 season opener on February 3. UNC has won every season opener since the 1999 season, running its streak to 20 seasons in a row with the win over the Leopards. Carolina's last loss in a season opener came on February 22, 1998 when the Tar Heels fell to Butler 13-12 at Fetzer Field.