University of North Carolina Athletics
Post-Match Notes
December 6, 2008 | Women's Soccer
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•North Carolina has now advanced to the championship game of the NCAA Women's Soccer Tournament for the 22nd time in the 27-year history of the tournament.
•The Tar Heels will be seeking their 19th NCAA championship when they meet Notre Dame on Sunday at 2 p.m.
•Carolina is 18-3 in its previous 21 NCAA championship game appearances.
•Friday's win over UCLA improved Carolina's all-time record in NCAA semifinal games to 22-2.
•Carolina will be seeking its 100th all-time NCAA Tournament victory in Sunday's championship game. UNC is 99-7-1 in all-time NCAA matches, a winning percentage of .930.
•In 107 NCAA Tournament matches UNC has outscored its opponents 376-58.
•Carolina is 81-4-1 in NCAA Tournament games played in the state of North Carolina.
•Carolina is 15-1-1 all-time in games played at WakeMed Soccer Park, including 5-0 in NCAA Tournament games.
•With the NCAA semifinal win over UCLA, Carolina improved to 7-0 all-time against the Bruins, including a 4-0 record in NCAA Tournament games.
•Carolina attempted its first penalty kick of the season Friday with Yael Averbuch converting on it to provide the winning margin in the 1-0 win over UCLA.
•It was only the second penalty kick attempt in a UNC game this season. The other was in the season's opening game when Charlotte converted on one in a 5-1 loss to UNC.
•Prior to Averbuch's PK goal, the last time UNC had a penalty kick attempt was November 24, 2007 when Allie Long scored on a PK early in the second half of a 3-2 loss to Notre Dame in the third round of the NCAA Tournament.
•Yael Averbuch started her 104th successive game Friday in the NCAA semifinal game against UCLA. She has never missed a game in a UNC uniform and has started every game in a Tar Heel uniform.
•North Carolina heads into the Notre Dame game with a record of 24-1-2. A victory would give the Tar Heels a 25-win season for the ninth time in school history. •UNC currently has five 25-win seasons in its history as well as three 27-win seasons.
•UNC has now shutout 17 of its 27 opponents this season. However, only nine of those shutouts came in the opening 18 games of the season. In the last nine games of the season, UNC has recorded eight clean sheets.
•Heading into the Notre Dame game, Carolina has allowed only one goal over the last 863 minutes and 15 seconds of play.
•Texas A&M, in a 2-1 NCAA quarterfinal loss to the Tar Heels, is the only team to score against UNC since October 30.
•The starting defensive back line of juniors Whitney Engen and Kristi Eveland and sophomore Rachel Givan have played the last 1,031 minutes in succession.
•The trio has played every minute in each of the last 11 Tar Heel games beginning with the match at Virginia on October 24.
•The Tar Heels enter the Notre Dame game with an all-time record of 672-33-21, a winning percentage just a shade over .940.
•The Tar Heels have won 99 games in the NCAA Tournament heading into the match against Notre Dame on Sunday.
•North Carolina has outscored its opponents 2,949 to 346 in 726 games since the institution of the program in 1979. That is an all-time scoring margin of 2,603 goals.
•The Tar Heels have gone unbeaten in their last 21 matches, posting a record of 20-0-1 since playing to a 1-1 tie at Stanford on September 12, 2008.
•The only blemish on the Tar Heel ledger since then was a 2-2 tie with Florida State on October 30.
•This is the first time in UNC's history that it has played back-to-back games against teams ranked higher than it in the National Soccer Coaches Association of America poll. UNC is ranked fourth in that poll. UCLA is ranked second and Notre Dame first.
