University of North Carolina Athletics
ACC Championship Match Post-Game Notes
November 9, 2009 | Women's Soccer
Nov. 9, 2009
Recap |
Box Score |
Photo Gallery 
•Carolina improved to 10-0 all-time against Florida State in ACC Tournament games against the Seminoles with Sunday's 3-0 win.
•UNC is now 5-0 against Florida State in ACC championship matches.
•Carolina won the ACC Tournament as a No. 3 seed for the second time. They also won as the No. 3 seed in 2000. Carolina won as the No. 2 seed in 1994. The other 17 championships won by Carolina came as a No. 1 seed. NC State won as a No. 2 seed in 1988 and Virginia won as a No. 2 seed in 2004.
•UNC improved to 57-0-3 all-time in ACC Tournament games. UNC has outscored its opponents 200-29 in ACC Tournament matches.
•Carolina has not allowed a goal in the past 729 minutes and 59 seconds of ACC Tournament play. The last team to score a goal against the Tar Heels in the ACC Tournament was Virginia. The Cavaliers scored at the 22:15 mark of the ACC Tournament semifinal game played on November 9, 2007.
•UNC is now 17-0-1 in ACC Tournament games played at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, N.C.
•The Tar Heels are 24-1-1 all-time in matches played at WakeMedSoccer Park.
•UNC improved to 22-2-2 all-time against the Seminoles.
•Sunday's win broke a two-game non-winning streak for UNC against FSU.
•The win helped keep UNC's seniors as the winningest senior class in women's soccer this year. The Tar Heels are now 88-9-4 over the last four years. Notre Dame is second at 87-10-4.
•With her second goal Sunday, Casey Nogueira tallied the 3,000th goal in North Carolina soccer history. In 748 games, UNC has outscored its opponents 3,001 to 357, a margin of 2,644 goals. UNC has averaged 4.013 goals per game in the 748 games played in its history.
•Carolina is now 3-0 as the lower-seeded team in ACC Tournament matches in its history. Carolina went 2-0 as a lower-seeded team in the 2009 ACC Tournament.
•UNC has now recorded five shutouts in a row. UNC has not allowed a goal in the past 472 minutes and three seconds. The last goal allowed by UNC came on October 25, 2009 when Beverly Goebel of Miami scored at 80:11 of the match in a 1-0 Hurricane win over Carolina.
•The Tar Heels have now played 13 of their 21 matches against teams ranked in the Top 25 of this week's NSCAA coaches poll.
•Through 18 regular season games and three ACC Tournament games, UNC has allowed only one first half goal all season. That came against FSU on October 22, 2009 in Tallahassee.
*Carolina has allowed only 12 goals over the last 2,902 minutes and 16 seconds of action dating back to UNC's tie against Florida State on October 30, 2008.
•Carolina has now posted 22 shutouts in its past 30 matches, a streak beginning against Miami on November 2, 2008.
•Carolina is 690-36-22 overall in its 31-year history as a varsity program.
•Casey Nogueira now has 125 career points. She moved past Laurie Schwoy into 16th place in UNC history Sunday. Shannon Higgins ranks 15th in career points with 159.
•Caey Nogueira has now scored 50 career goals. She is 15th in career goals at UNC. Stephanie Zeh ranks 14th with 55.
