University of North Carolina Athletics
Women's Lacrosse Game Notes
April 17, 2001 | Women's Lacrosse
April 17, 2001
No. 3 seed North Carolina (9-4, 1-2 ACC)
vs.
No. 2 seed Duke (11-2, 2-1 ACC)
Date & Time: Friday, April 20, 2000, 3:30 p.m.
Site: Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex, Orlando, Fla.
Carolina's Series Record vs. Duke: Carolina leads, 4-3
Websites: North Carolina (TarHeelBlue.com), Duke (goduke.com)
No. 6 Tar Heels Enter ACC Tournament as Third Seed
Sixth-ranked North Carolina (9-4, 1-2 ACC) is the No. 3 overall seed in the 2001 ACC Women's Lacrosse Tournament and will face No. 2 seed Duke at 3:30 p.m. on Friday at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Fla.
Top-seeded Maryland will play No. 4 seed Virginia at 1 p.m. on Friday. The winners of the two games will face each other in the championship game on Sunday at noon.
In This Week's National Rankings
Carolina is ranked No. 6 in this week's IWLCA poll. It is the third week in a row that UNC has been ranked sixth. The Tar Heels have been ranked as high as No. 5 in the March 5 poll this season.
Duke is ranked No. 4 this week. Maryland has been ranked No. 1 all season. Virginia is No. 9 this week.
Carolina vs. Duke
Carolina leads the all-time series with Duke, 4-3, but the Blue Devils have won three of the last four in the series. The last four games between the two schools have been decided by one goal. UNC also has a chance to win back 1.5 points in the Carlyle Cup competition, which Duke currently leads, 20-17.
Earlier this season, the Devils earned an 10-9 win in Durham on March 17. In that game, Lauren Gallagher scored with 14 seconds left in regulation to gain the victory. Duke led, 6-3, at halftime before the Tar Heels battled back. Lindsay Stone scored three goals, including the game-tying score with 1:58 left. Christine McPike scored four goals for Carolina in the contest.
In their only ACC Tournament meeting, Carolina defeated Duke, 7-6, in the semifinals of the 2000 ACC Tournament in College Park, Md. In that game, Kristin Off scored three second-half goals, including the game-winner with 3:54 left in regulation, to lead the top-seeded Tar Heels over the fourth-seeded Blue Devils. Off scored the game-winner on a beautiful assist from Julie Kickham. Kickham fed Off in stride in front of the cage, and Off scored. Erin McInnes scored twice for the Tar Heels in that game.
The Series with the Terrapins
Maryland leads the all-time series with Carolina, 7-3, including an 8-7 Terrapin win in College Park on March 4 earlier this season.
The Terps defeated UNC in 1996 and `97. The Tar Heels beat Maryland twice in 1998, including a 12-10 win in Charlottesville, Va., in the ACC Tournament semifinals. The Terps beat UNC twice in 1999, and Carolina beat Maryland, 14-13, in overtime in Chapel Hill in 2000. The Terps downed UNC, 8-7, in Carolina's third game of the 2001 season.
Maryland has won 73 of their last 76 games since early in the 1998 season, and all three of those losses have come to Carolina. The Tar Heels defeated the Terrapins twice in 1998, on March 8 in Chapel Hill and on Apr. 18 in the ACC Tournament in Charlottesville, Va., and beat Maryland, 14-13, in 2000 in Chapel Hill.
Maryland has won two of three meetings with Carolina in the ACC Tournament. The Terps winning, 19-17 in overtime in 1999 in the semifinals in Chapel Hill and 17-6 in the 2000 finals in College Park. The Tar Heels won 12-10 in the 1998 semifinals in Charlottesville, Va.
The Series with the Cavaliers
Carolina leads the all-time series with Virginia, 6-3. Earlier this season, UNC defeated UVa 15-12 in Chapel Hill on March 24. Amy Havrilla scored five goals, including two in the final three minutes of the game, in that contest.
The Tar Heels are 0-2 against Virginia in the ACC Tournament, with losses coming in the 1997 semifinals and the 1998 finals.
Carolina in the ACC Tournament
The Tar Heels have an all-time Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament record of 2-4. UNC has reached the ACC Tournament finals twice -- in 1998 in Charlottesville, Va., and in 2000 in College Park, Md.
The first ACC Tournament was held in 1997 at Charlottesville, Va. The second-seeded Tar Heels fell to third-seeded Virginia in the tournament semifinals, 9-6. The top-ranked Maryland Terrapins went on to win the first-ever ACC title in women's lacrosse by defeating the host Cavaliers in the finals.
The 1998 ACC Tournament was also held in Charlottesville, Va. The Tar Heels were the No. 1 seed after going 3-0 against ACC teams in the regular season. Carolina defeated fourth-seeded Maryland 12-10 in the semifinals. In the tournament finals the next day, second-seeded Virginia delighted its home crowd by defeating the Tar Heels 9-7.
The 1999 ACC Tournament was held in Chapel Hill on April 24-25 with UNC falling in a semifinal contest to top-seeded Maryland 19-17 in overtime. UNC trailed the Terrapins, 15-8, with less than 15 minutes remaining in the second half, but the Tar Heels scored the last seven goals of regulation to force overtime. However the Terps responded by outscoring UNC 4-2 in the overtime period to advance to the tournament finals. In the finals, Maryland routed Virginia, 13-5.
At the 2000 ACC Tournament in College Park, Md., Carolina defeated Duke, 7-6, in the semifinals. In that game, Kristin Off scored three second-half goals, including the game-winner with 3:54 left in regulation, to lead the top-seeded Tar Heels over the fourth-seeded Blue Devils. In the finals, Maryland handed Carolina a 17-6 defeat. That 11-goal margin of defeat was UNC's worst loss since losing 14-2 to Maryland in Chapel Hill in the second game of UNC's inaugural season in 1996.
Thompson One Goal From Tying Her Career-High
For the second year in a row, junior Kellie Thompson is leading Carolina in scoring. The Grasonville, Md., native has a team-high 35 goals and 46 points. Her 11 assists are third among Tar Heels. She is second in the ACC in goals and tied for third in points.
Thompson set career-highs last year with 36 goals, 20 assists and 56 points. With two goals at the ACC Tournament this weekend in Orlando, she will establish a new career high for goals in a season.
Breakout Seasons for Havrilla and Stone
Senior Amy Havrilla and junior Lindsay Stone both have enjoyed breakout seasons for UNC in 2001. Havrilla has set new career highs with 34 goals, eight assists and 42 points, while Stone also has set new career highs with 29 goals, 13 assists and 42 points.
