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Carolina Seeks NCAA Shocker Saturday Against No. 1 Johns Hopkins
May 19, 2004 | Men's Lacrosse
May 19, 2004
2004 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA MEN'S LACROSSE GAME NOTES
No. 8 seed North Carolina Tar Heels (10-4) vs. No. 1 Seed Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (12-1)
2004 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship Quarterfinal
Saturday, May 22, 2004, 12:00 p.m., Scott Stadium, Charlottesville, Va.
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NO. 8 SEEDED TAR HEELS PREPARE TO MEET TOP-SEEDED JOHNS HOPKINS IN 2004 NCAA QUARTERFINALS:
Making their first appearance in the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship since the 1998 season, the No. 8 seeded North Carolina Tar Heels (10-4) have advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals and they will meet the No. 1 seeded Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (12-1) at Scott Stadium on the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville, Va. A spot in the first of two 2004 NCAA semifinal games on May 29 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. will be on the line with the winner advancing to meet the winner of a Sunday quarterfinal game between No. 4 seed Syracuse and No. 5 seed Georgetown. That quarterfinal game is being played in Ithaca, N.Y. at 3 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices are $12 for reserved seats, $10 for adult general admission and $7 for student general admission. Tickets will be on sale on game day at Scott Stadium. The other two quarterfinal games this weekend have No. 3 seed Maryland meeting No. 6 seed Princeton on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Charlottesville, Va. and No. 2 seed Navy facing No. 7 seed Cornell at 12 p.m. in Ithaca, N.Y. on Sunday. The winners of those two games will meet in the second semifinal game in Baltimore on May 29.
THE CAROLINA DEPTH CHART: North Carolina will line up as follows in its NCAA quarterfinal game against Johns Hopkins.
Attack: Jed Prossner, Mike McCall, Ryan Blair
First Midfield: Lance Zimmerman, Johnny Seivold, Bryant Will
Defense: Matt Pessagno, Stephen McElduff, Ronnie Staines
Goalkeeper: Paul Spellman
Second Midfield: Dave Duffy, Andrew McElduff, Kyle Henderson
Third Midfield: Tom Sciolla, Ryan Tolson, Dan Stringer
Attack Reserve: Andrew Lucas
Faceoffs: Kevin Frew
Long Stick Midfielders: Hayward Howard, Billy Staines
Close Defense Reserve Charley Conkling, J.J. LaSeta
THE SERIES WITH JOHNS HOPKINS: North Carolina will be looking to break a 10-game losing streak in the series with Johns Hopkins when the two teams meet Saturday in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals in Charlottesville, Va. The Blue Jays lead the overall series and have not lost to UNC since April 2, 1994 when the Tar Heels triumphed 11-9 at Homewood Field in Baltimore. Carolina's last NCAA Tournament win over Johns Hopkins came on May 29, 1993 when UNC beat the Blue Jays 16-10 in the NCAA semifinals at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md. Each of the last three UNC-Johns Hopkins games have been decided by one goal. Hopkins beat UNC 12-11 in Baltimore on May 29, 2002, 11-10 in overtime in Chapel Hill on May 29, 2003 and 10-9 in Baltimore on April 3, 2004.
CAROLINA DOWNS OHIO STATE TO WIN FIRST NCAA TOURNAMENT GAME SINCE 1993: The Tar Heels turned in one of their best efforts of the 2004 season in beating Ohio State 13-6 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament May 15 at Fetzer Field. The heroes were many for UNC as Kevin Frew won 15 of 21 faceoffs to move into a tie for first place in career faceoffs won in school history. The senior midfielder also claimed 13 ground balls, his career high, for the fourth time this season. Junior goalkeeper Paul Spellman had a superb day between the pipes as he made 13 saves while allowing only six goals. The Tar Heels had good offensive balance with junior Mike McCall tallying three goals, junior Jed Prossner scoring two goals and adding an assist and junior Bryant Will adding a goal and three assists. Sophomore Ryan Blair had two goals and two assists while junior Lance Zimmerman and senior Andrew Lucas each had a goal and two assists for UNC. Prior to the Ohio State game, Carolina had last played an NCAA Tournament game on May 9, 1998 when the Tar Heels lost a first round game to Duke 16-14 in Amherst, Mass. The May 15 game against the Ohio State Buckeyes marked the first time the Tar Heels had hosted a game in the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship since May 22, 1993. That day the Tar Heels defeated Army 14-5 in an NCAA quarterfinal match played at Kenan Stadium. UNC was coached that day by interim head coach Rob Russell. The Tar Heels advanced to the NCAA championship game that year before losing to Syracuse 13-12.
CAROLINA IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT: Carolina has an all-time record of 24-16 in NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament games. The Tar Heels broke a five-game losing streak in tournament games when they whipped Ohio State 13-6 in a 2004 first-round match May 15 in Chapel Hill. UNC's last NCAA Tournament win prior to that came on May 29, 1993 when Carolina defeated Johns Hopkins 16-10 in the NCAA Tournament semifinals at Byrd Stadium in College Park, Md.
CAROLINA EARNS 21ST NCAA BID: Carolina earned its 21st bid to the NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Tournament this year. Only four schools have earned more bids to the NCAA Tournament than Carolina. Johns Hopkins leads all schools with 33 bids to the tournament while Virginia and Maryland have each been invited 27 times. Syracuse has earned 23 bids while North Carolina and Navy are tied for fifth with 21 bids each.
UNC FINISHES NO. 6 IN USILA POLL: The 2004 Tar Heel team finished sixth nationally in the final Geico/STX U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association coaches poll. That is the highest finish for the Tar Heels in the final poll since the 1996 season when UNC was second. The only other time since then when the Tar Heels finished in the Top 10 was 1998 when North Carolina was 10th in the final poll.
Jed Prossner NAMED TEWAARATON TROPHY FINALIST: Tar Heel junior attackman Jed Prossner (Easton, Md.) became the first Tar Heel men's lacrosse player in history to be named a finalist for the prestigious Tewaaraton Trophy. The Men's Tewaaraton Selection Committee announced the five finalists for the fourth annual Tewaaraton Trophy, the pre-eminent lacrosse award honoring the top male varsity collegiate lacrosse player in the United States, on May 17. The Trophy will be presented on June 3 in Washington, D.C. College Sports TV (CSTV) will air its Tewaaraton Award special presentation on Thursday, July 1 at 9 p.m. EDT. Prossner has been named first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference each of the past two years and has led the Tar Heels in scoring for each of the past three years. Heading into the NCAA quarterfinal against Johns Hopkins, he has 39 goals and 14 assists for 53 points. The 39 goals is the sixth highest total in a single season in Tar Heel history and only eight short of the school record for goals in a season set by Dennis Goldstein in 1991. Prossner currently ranks sixth in the nation in goals scored per game and ninth nationally in points per game. Prossner scored a career-high six goals and had a career-high eight points in UNC's 14-11 win over Notre Dame on March 14 this season. The Tewaaraton Award Foundation, in conjunction with the University Club of Washington, D.C., formally established the Tewaaraton Trophy on August 29, 2000. Today, the Tewaaraton Trophy is recognized as the pre-eminent lacrosse award honoring the top female and male varsity collegiate lacrosse players in the United States. The Foundation honors lacrosse, the original and oldest American sport, through the Tewaaraton name and by promoting the game through the award.
THREE TAR HEELS NAMED ALL-ACC IN 2004: For the first time since 1996, North Carolina had as many as three players named this year to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference Team. Senior defenseman Ronnie Staines (Severna Park, Md.), junior attackman Jed Prossner (Easton, Md.) and junior midfielder Bryant Will (Phoenix, Md.) were all named to the All-ACC Team on April 22 in a vote by the conference's four head coaches. Prossner was voted All-ACC for the second year in a row.
CAROLINA PAIR NAMED ALL-ACC TOURNAMENT: Senior midfielder Kevin Frew (Baldwin, Md.) and junior attackman Jed Prossner (Easton, Md.) were both named to the All-Tournament Team at the 2004 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. That was the first time since 1996 that Carolina had more than one player named to the All-Tournament Team.
WINNINGEST SEASON SINCE 1996: North Carolina currently has a record of 10-4 as it heads into NCAA quarterfinal play. The 10 wins are the most in a season by the Tar Heels since 1996 when Carolina finished the season with a record of 12-5. It is also the first time since the 1996 campaign that the Tar Heels have reached double digits in the win column.
THREE SUCCESSIVE WINNING SEASONS: No one can question the progress the Tar Heel men's lacrosse program has made under the leadership of head coach John Haus, now in his fourth year as the head mentor at his alma mater. With a 10-4 record this year, UNC has posted a winning record for three successive seasons, having gone 8-5 in 2002 and 7-6 in 2003. The last time UNC had three successive winning campaigns was 1994-96 when the Tar Heels were 10-5, 9-7 and 12-5, respectively.
CAROLINA IN ACC GAMES: Since John Haus' arrival as the Tar Heels' head coach in 2001, Carolina is 6-6 in Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season matches. That is a marked turnaround for the Tar Heel program from the previous four-year period of 1997-2000 when UNC posted a 1-11 record in ACC regular-season games.
CAROLINA BOASTS NATION'S SECOND TOUGHEST SCHEDULE: North Carolina has played the nation's second toughest schedule according to the strength of schedule ratings compiled May 17 by LaxPower.com. North Carolina has an average opponent power rating of 95.65 this season and has gone 10-4 against that schedule. Only defending NCAA champion Virginia, with an average opponent power rating of 96.11, had a better schedule than the Tar Heels this season. The remainder of the Top 10 team in strength of schedule ratings include Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Syracuse, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Loyola, Duke and Georgetown.
CAROLINA IN CLOSE GAMES: Carolina is 4-4 in games decided by three goals or less so far during the 2004 season. This is a decided improvement over Carolina's performance in close games during the 2003 season when the Tar Heels were 1-6 in games decided by three goals or less. UNC's improvement in close games has a lot to do with the fact that Carolina finished the season ranked No. 6 nationally in the USILA poll with four losses. The next highest ranked team with as many as four losses was Towson at No. 9. Three of UNC's four losses this year came by one goal -- to No. 1 Johns Hopkins 10-9, to No. 2 Navy 9-8 in overtime and to No. 3 Maryland 10-9. UNC's fourth loss was an 11-9 setback to Virginia in the semifinals of the 2004 ACC Tournament. Carolina's four losses have come by a combined total of five goals in 2004. In 2003, Carolina lost six games by a combined total of 10 goals.
TAR HEELS HAVE BIGGEST OFFENSIVE EXPLOSION IN YEARS: When North Carolina defeated UMBC 17-6 on April 17, 2004, it marked the most goals scored in a game by the Tar Heels since a 27-7 win over Pfeiffer on April 26, 2001. It was the most goals in a game by UNC against an NCAA Division I opponent since March 13, 1999 when the Tar Heels smacked Air Force 18-5 in Colorado Springs, Colo. The 11-goal margin of victory was also the biggest for the Tar Heels in a game since the April 26, 2001 win over Pfeiffer and the biggest against a Division I team since the aforementioned Air Force victory. Carolina went on to equal that 17-goal output when the Tar Heels defeated Limestone, the No. 1-ranked team in NCAA Division II, on Fetzer Field by a 17-8 score on May 5.
A QUICK LOOK AT THE TAR HEELS' PERSONNEL: Carolina features eight players in double figures in points heading into the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals against Johns Hopkins, led by junior attackman Jed Prossner who has 39 goals and 14 assists for 53 points. Other players in double figures include junior attackman Mike McCall with 35 points (28g, 7a), junior midfielder Bryant Will with 33 points (14g, 19a), sophomore attackman Ryan Blair with 32 points (17g, 15a), sophomore attackman Scott Falatach with 30 points (16g, 14a), , junior midfielder Lance Zimmerman with 24 points (10g, 14a), senior attackman Andrew Lucas with 15 points (8g, 7a) and sophomore midfielder Andrew McElduff with 10 points (8g, 2a). Carolina starts an experienced close defense of senior Ronnie Staines, senior Matt Pessagno and sophomore Stephen McElduff that has helped the Tar Heels hold opponents to an average of 8.33 goals per game. Staines has started every game in his Tar Heel career, 52 straight heading into the NCAA quarterfinals against Johns Hopkins Junior goalkeeper Paul Spellman has a goals against average of 7.99 goals per game and he has saved .609 percent of the shots on goal against him. Another key player for the Tar Heels has been senior midfielder Kevin Frew. Frew leads UNC with 130 ground balls and he has won 202 of 306 faceoffs, a winning percentage of .660.
A QUINTET OF PRESEASON ALL-AMERICA CHOICES: Five Tar Heels were named to the preseason All-America Team by Face-Off Yearbook. They were senior defenseman Ronnie Staines as a first-team All-America, junior attackman Jed Prossner as a second-team All-America, junior midfielder Bryant Will as a third-team All-America, senior faceoff man Kevin Frew as an honorable mention All-America and junior goalkeeper Paul Spellman as an honorable mention All-America. All five of those players have lived up to their preseason hype by having outstanding 2004 campaigns.
CAROLINA AGAINST RANKED TEAMS AND ON THE ROAD: Carolina has a record of 8-3 this season when it plays teams nationally-ranked at the time of the contest. That does not include a 9-8 overtime loss to Navy on March 5 which is currently ranked No. 2 in the nation but was unraked at the time the Tar Heels played the Midshipmen. UNC finished the 2004 regular season 5-1 away from Chapel Hill. That is the fewest regular-season road losses by UNC since 1993 when Carolina lost only to Virginia on the road and was 5-1 away from Chapel Hill in the regular season.
YOUTH WINS OUT: Carolina's top offensive statistics leaders are a group dominated by players who will return to the Tar Heel team in 2005. Carolina's top six leading scorers will all return to the Tar Heel team next season. The top senior scorer is attackman Andrew Lucas with 15 points.
THE PROSSNER FILE: Carolina sophomore attacker not only leads the Heels in scoring with 53 points but he also had the top scoring game of his career against Notre Dame in the Tar Heels' 14-11 win over the Fighting Irish on March 14. Prossner scored six goals against Notre Dame, topping his previous high total of five against UMBC on April 13, 2002. Prossner's eight points against the Fighting Irish topped his previous high of six points in the aforementioned UMBC game and matched against Duke on March 19, 2003.
WILL STEPS UP: Junior midfielder Bryant Will is the top assist producer on the Tar Heel team in 2004 with 19. He is one of five Tar Heels with 10 or more assists this season. Will scored a career high three goals in Carolina's 14-11 win at Notre Dame on March 14; he also had a career high six points in the match. His previous highs for a single game in his career were two goals and four points. Will matched his career high for three goals in a game when he had a hat trick in the Tar Heels' 12-6 win over Ohio State on May 8.
FALATACH HAS CAREER HIGH: Sophomore attackman Scott Falatach produced his career high for points in a game when he had six in the Tar Heels' 17-6 win over UMBC on April 17. The Stevensville, Md. native previously had five points in a match against Virginia on April 18, 2003 and against Air Force on April 26, 2003. Falatach had three goals and a career-high three assists in the win over the Retrievers.
LUCAS BREAKS OUT: Senior attackman Andrew Lucas was a big part of the successful Tar Heel attack in their wins over Virginia and UMBC. In each of those matches Lucas equalled his career high for points in a match with four, something he has done six times now in his Tar Heel career. His three goals against UMBC also equaled his career high, achieved five times.
McCALL MATCHES CAREER HIGH: Junior attackman Mike McCall matched his career high for goals in a game when he scored four against Virginia in the ACC Tournament semifinals on April 23. McCall also had four goals against Fairfield on April 27, 2002.
ZIMMERMAN HEATS UP: Junior midfielder Lance Zimmerman has been one of the top producers for Carolina offensively in recent games. The Cockeysville, Md. native had a career-high four points in UNC's 17-8 victory over Limestone on May 5 and he followed that up by scoring a career high three goals in a 12-6 victory over Ohio State on May 8. Earlier in the year, Zimmerman scored the game-winning goal in overtime to defeat Duke 10-9 on March 20, giving the Tar Heels their first overtime victory in over two years.
CAROLINA AS A TEAM IN THE NATIONAL STATS: Carolina heads into the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals ranked high nationally as a team in several categories in the NCAA Division I statistics. UNC currently ranks second in faceoff winning percentage with a team mark of .659. The Tar Heels are fourth in man-up success percentage at .465. UNC ranks seventh in the nation in scoring offense. Carolina is averaging 11.57 goals per game. UNC is sixth in the nation in scoring margin at 3.21 goals per game. The Tar Heels are ninth in winning percentage at .714. UNC is ranked 19th in scoring defense this week, allowing 8.36 goals per game.
FREW LEADS THE NATION IN GROUND BALLS PER GAME: Carolina's Kevin Frew currently leads in the nation in ground balls per game at 9.29 per contest. He is also second in faceoff percentage at .660. Junior attackman Jed Prossner is sixth nationally in goals per game at 2.79 and he is ninth in points per game with 3.79. Junior goalkeeper Paul Spellman currently ranks seventh in the nation in save percentage with a mark of .609. He is 13th nationally in goals against average, allowing only 7.99 goals per contest.
CAROLINA IN THE ACC STATS: North Carolina's Jed Prossner currently ranks second in the ACC in goals per game at 2.79 while Mike McCall is fourth at 2.00, Scott Falatach is ninth at 1.25 and Ryan Blair is 10th at 1.21. Bryant Will is fourth in the league in assists per game at 1.36 while Falatach and Lance Zimmerman are tied for sixth at 1.08, Blair is eight at 1.07 and Prossner is tied for ninth at 1.00. In points per game, Prossner is second in the ACC at 3.79 per game. McCall is fifth at 2.50 and Will is eighth at 2.36. Prossner is second in the ACC in man-up goals per game at 0.43. Kevin Frew leads the conference in ground balls per game at 9.29 and in faceoff percentage at .660. Paul Spellman ranks second in the ACC in goals against average at 7.99, save percentage at .609 and saves per game at 11.93. As a team, UNC leads the ACC in assists per game at 7.21, in fewest penalties per game at 2.93 and in faceoff percentage at .659.
FACING OFF: Carolina is winning at a solid rate of .659 in the faceoff circle so far this season. Senior Kevin Frew has taken all but 17 faceoffs for the Tar Heels this season and he has won 202 of 306 faceoffs. He has won a season-high 18 faceoffs twice this season. His 18 faceoffs wins in 22 attempts were a key in UNC's overtime win over Duke on March 20. He also won 18 of 21 faceoff tries in Carolina's 17-6 win over UMBC on April 17. Frew has been especially adept at winning faceoffs in UNC's last five games. He won 17 against UMBC on April 17, 16 against Virginia on April 23, 16 against Limestone on May 5, 17 against Ohio State on May 8 and 15 against Ohio State in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on May 15. Frew's career high for faceoff victories is 19. It came against Delaware on March 9, 2002.
SPELLMAN BETWEEN THE PIPES: Junior goalkeeper Paul Spellman enters the Johns Hopkins game with a 7.999 goals against average and a .609 save percentage. Spellman had 18 saves and only seven goals allowed in the Tar Heels' 12-7 season-opening win over UMass for his best save percentage of the season with 10 or more saves. Spellman has had multiple games in which he has reached double digits in the saves department. He had 17 saves against Notre Dame, 16 against Virginia in the ACC Tournament, 14 against Denver, 13 against Maryland, Virginia in the regular season and Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament, 12 against Air Force and 10 against both Johns Hopkins and Duke.
CAROLINA IN THE POLL: UNC was ranked No. 6 by the coaches in the final Geico/STX U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association poll. UNC was ranked as high as No. 4 during three different weeks this season. Carolina had not been as high as No. 4 in the USILA poll since the final poll of the 1996 season.
COACH John Haus: North Carolina head coach John Haus, a 1983 Carolina graduate, is in his fourth year as the head coach of the Tar Heel program. Prior to returning to UNC, he was the head coach at Washington College for four years where his teams were 47-21. As the head coach at Johns Hopkins his teams went 20-7 in 1999 and 2000. As the Tar Heel head coach his teams are 31-21 in four seasons. In 10 years as a collegiate head coach his teams are now 98-49. Including his time as a player, assistant coach and head coach he has been involved with teams that have a combined record of 203-84 in the collegiate ranks.
TAR HEELS WIN IN OVERTIME AT DUKE: When Carolina defeated Duke 10-9 in overtime on March 20, the Tar Heels broke a four-game losing streak in overtime games. Carolina had not won an overtime contest since beating Navy 11-10 in an NCAA record six overtimes on March 2, 2002.
PROSSNER NAMED ACC CO-PLAYER OF THE WEEK MARCH 1: North Carolina's Jed Prossner was named Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Lacrosse Co-Player of the Week March 1 after leading Carolina to an impressive win over UMass. Prossner, a native of Easton, Md., helped lead North Carolina to a 12-7 win over the Minutemen. The attackman tallied three goals and one assist for four points. The junior had an early assist and then scored three goals early in the fourth quarter to put the game away for the Tar Heels. Prossner has led the Tar Heels in scoring as both a freshman in 2002 and a sophomore in 2003.
PROSSNER CAPTURES ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK HONORS A SECOND TIME: North Carolina's Jed Prossner was named the week's Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Lacrosse Player of the Week for the second time this season on March 13. The junior attackman scored 11 goals and had four assists in three games as No. 9 North Carolina swept three ranked teams on its spring break trip. The Tar Heels defeated No. 10 Denver 11-6, No. 20 Air Force 10-9 and No. 5 Notre Dame 14-11 in a span of six days. The Easton, Md., native had two goals, one assist and two ground balls against Denver and three goals, one assist and three ground balls versus Air Force. In the Tar Heels' win over Notre Dame, Prossner had a career day with six goals, two assists and two ground balls. His six goals against the Fighting Irish were a career high, as were the eight points he tallied in the match.
STAINES COPS NOD AS ACC PLAYER OF THE WEEK: North Carolina's Ronnie Staines was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Lacrosse Player of the Week March 22. The senior defender was at his best March 20 in No. 8 North Carolina's 10-9 overtime win over No. 5 Duke. The Severna Park, Md., native limited Duke's leading scorer, Matt Danowski, to only two shots on goal and allowed him just one assist. It was the fifth time in the first six games of the season that North Carolina has held its opponents to single digit goals.
SPELLMAN MERITS PLAYER OF THE WEEK ACCOLADES: North Carolina's Paul Spellman was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Lacrosse Player of the Week April 13. Spellman, a junior goalkeeper from Cockeysville, Md., recorded 13 saves while allowing nine goals as No. 5 North Carolina defeated No. 15 Virginia, 11-9, on April 11 at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill. It marked the first time the Tar Heels have defeated the Cavaliers since 2001. The junior also had five ground balls in the game. With Virginia leading 7-6 in the third quarter, Spellman held the Cavaliers scoreless for nearly 22 minutes while saving nine successive shots on goal by the Wahoos. The Tar Heels went on a 5-0 scoring run to take an 11-7 lead, before winning the conference match-up by an eventual 11-9 score.
FREW WINS 18 FACEOFFS VERSUS DUKE AND UMBC: When Kevin Frew won 18 faceoffs in Carolina's 10-9 win over Duke on March 20 and against UMBC on April 17, that equalled the third most faceoffs won in a single game in UNC history by a single player. Todd Oudemool won a school record 22 faceoffs against Towson on May 13, 1989 and Frew won 19 against Delaware on March 9, 2002. Ryan Damon also won 18 in a game for Carolina on April 11, 1999 against Delaware. Frew has four times this season had a career high 13 ground balls in a game -- against Duke, UMBC, Limestone and Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament.
FREW'S CAREER FACEOFF WINS: By winning 15 faceoffs against Ohio State in the NCAA first round, Kevin Frew has now won 429 faceoffs in his career, equaling the most in UNC history. Only Jude Collins (1993-96) with 429 faceoff victories has won as many.
FREW'S SET SEASON FACEOFF WINS RECORD FOR NORTH CAROLINA: Kevin Frew's 202 faceoff victories in 2004 are the most in a single season in school history. The past school record was 145 set by Jude Collins in 1996. Frew passed Collins in the ACC Tournament semifinal game against Virginia.
FREW'S SEASON GROUND BALLS: Kevin Frew has claimed 130 ground balls so far in the 2004 season. That matches the second most in a single season in UNC history. Jude Collins won 160 ground balls in 1996 and 130 ground balls in 1995 as the only totals to top and equal Frew's 2004 mark.
PROSSNER'S GOAL TOTAL: Jed Prossner's 39 goals this season are the sixth most in a single year in Tar Heel history. Five UNC players have scored 40 or more goals in a season -- Dennis Goldstein 47 in 1991, Jason Wade 45 in 1996, Bert Fett 42 in 1974, Mac Ford 42 in 1985 and David Wingate 40 in 1982. Prossner has taken 121 shots this season, matching the third most in a season in UNC history. Goldstein took 138 shots in 1991, Wade 125 in 1996 and Jeff Sonke also took 121 shots in 2001.
SPELLMAN RANKS THIRD IN CAREER SAVES: North Carolina junior goalkeeper Paul Spellman enters the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals with 512 career saves. That is the third best total in UNC history. Tom Sears (1980-83) is the career leader with 629. Dave Schreiner is second in school history with 621 saves.
THE ALL-TIME HOME RECORD: North Carolina has a record of 207-101-2 in home games dating back to the start of the varsity program in 1949.
