University of North Carolina Athletics
Tar Heels To Visit Duke In Matchup Of Top-Five Teams
April 19, 2007 | Women's Lacrosse
April 19, 2007
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CHAPEL HILL - The University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team will wrap up its 2007 regular season on Friday night at 7 p.m. when it plays at Duke at Koskinen Stadium in Durham, N.C.
Carolina, Duke and Maryland are all tied atop the Atlantic Coast Conference standings at 3-1 entering this weekend. The Terrapins hold a tiebreaker advantage, having defeated both UNC and Duke already this season. The Terps conclude their 2007 ACC regular season against Virginia Tech on Saturday. The top two seeds in next week's ACC Tournament receive byes to the semifinal round.
Carolina is 13-2 this season and 3-1 in ACC play. UNC is ranked No. 4 in the nation by the IWLCA and Inside Lacrosse media polls this week. The Tar Heels won their first conference game this season, downing Virginia 16-7 in Chapel Hill on March 17. The next weekend on March 24, UNC lost at Maryland 8-6. The Tar Heels rebounded to beat Boston College (14-4 on April 1 in Chapel Hill) and Virginia Tech (15-5 on April 13 in Blacksburg, Va.).
Duke, ranked No. 5 by the IWLCA and No. 3 by Inside Lacrosse, is 11-2 in 2007, 3-1 in ACC play. The Blue Devils lost at Maryland (19-18 on March 3) and bounced back to beat Virginia Tech (16-7 on March 23), Virginia (19-18 in two overtimes in Charlottesville, Va.) and Boston College (16-8 on April 14 in Chestnut Hill, Mass.).
Following Friday's game in Durham, the Tar Heels will host the 2007 ACC Tournament next weekend at Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill. First-round action begins on Thursday, with the semfinals on Friday and the championship game on Sunday afternoon.
CARLYLE CUP POINT AT STAKE FRIDAY NIGHT
Friday's game is worth one point in the Carlyle Cup, the annual multisport competition between UNC and Duke. The Carlyle Cup is currently tied at 10.5 to 10.5 as the spring sport season winds down. The competition has never been deadlocked this late in the competition.
Duke won the Carlyle Cup in 2001, 2003 and 2004. UNC won in 2002, 2005 and 2006. Twenty-three varsity sports compete, with 26 total points at stake. The five remaining points are in women's lacrosse (Friday night at Duke); ACC rowing championship (Saturday at Clemson), ACC men's golf (at the Old North State Club Friday-Sunday); and ACC men's and women's track and field (Friday-Sunday at Maryland). In rowing, men's golf and track and field, the point goes to the school finishing higher in the ACC championship.
The Tar Heels and Blue Devils could meet in ACC Tournament play in men's and women's lacrosse and men's and women's tennis, so the scoring in those sports will remain in play until after the respective conference tournaments.
