University of North Carolina Athletics
Post-Match Notes from NCAA Semifinals
December 5, 2009 | Women's Soccer
Dec. 5, 2009
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•North Carolina will be seeking to win its 20th NCAA championship and 21st national collegiate championship in women's soccer Sunday against Stanford. The Tar Heels have won NCAA crowns in 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2006 and 2008. The 1981 team won the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women national title.
•Sunday will mark the 10th meeting in history between UNC and Stanford. All nine previous games have been regular-season matchups. UNC leads the all-time series 7-0-2.
•UNC and Notre Dame played in the NCAA Tournament for the fourth successive season, with the Tar Heels going 3-1 against the Irish, including 3-0 in College Cup matchups.
•Carolina is now 105-7-1 in NCAA Tournament games. UNC's winning percentage is 93.4 percent in those 113 matches. Notre Dame is second in NCAA Tournament all-time wins with 53.
•UNC has outscored their NCAA Tournament opponents 390-61 in those 113 games.
•This will mark Carolina's 23rd NCAA Tournament championship game appearance out of the 28 NCAA titles games played. Carolina's 23 championship game appearances are 16 more than second-place Notre Dame with seven. Connecticut has played for four titles. Stanford will be playing in its first NCAA championship game.
•UNC improved to 21-2 in NCAA semifinal matches Friday. The only two semifinal losses came in 1995 against Notre Dame 1-0 and 2002 against Santa Clara 2-1.
•Coach Anson Dorrance won the 695th game of his career Friday. He is now 695-36-22 in 31 seasons at Tar Heel head mentor.
•UNC has outscored its opposition 3,013 goals to 359 goals in 753 games in its history. That is a margin of 2,653 goals in 753 contests. UNC's average scoring margin is 3.52 goals per game in its history.
•Carolina is currently on a 10-match winning streak since a 1-0 loss at Miami on October 25. Carolina finished the regular season with two wins, swept three games in the ACC Tournament and has won five straight games in the NCAA Tournament. Over the last 10 games, UNC has outscored its foes 23-2. Carolina has post nine clean sheets defensively in the past 10 games.
•Casey Nogueira has now scored a team-leading five game-winning goal this year.
•Carolina improved to 12-4-2 all-time against the Fighting Irish. UNC has won the last three meetings and is 7-2 in NCAA Tournament games against Notre Dame and 2-1 in NCAA semifinal games. Carolina remains unbeaten against Notre Dame in games played outside of the state of North Carolina. Three of the four UNC losses have come in Chapel Hill and one in Durham. The ties have come in South Bend, Ind. and St. Louis, Mo. Of the victories, two have come in Cary, N.C., one in Portland, Ore., two in South Bend, Ind., one in College Station, Texas, two in Houston, Texas, one in Chapel Hill, N.C., two in San Jose, Calif., and one in Santa Clara, Calif. Carolina is 9-0-2 in games outside of North Carolina versus the Fighting Irish. Notre Dame has it greatest success playing the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill, going 3-1 in the games at Fetzer Field.
•Midfielder Lucy Bronze has all 10 of her points since the October 22 match at Florida State. She has three goals and four assists in the last 10 games, including the game-winning assist versus the Notre Dame Fighting Irishin the NCAA semifinals.
•Casey Nogueira is UNC's leading scorer in the 2009 NCAA Tournament with five goals and three assists for 13 points. She had 34 career NCAA Tournament points on 13 goals and eight assists.
•Nogueira has scored the game-winning goal in four of the College Cup games in which she has played (2006 semifinals and finals, 2008 finals, 2009 semifinals).
•The 12 goals allowed this year by UNC are the fewest since the 2003 team surrendered only 11 tallies. Over the last 10 years, the 11 goals allowed by UNC in 2003 marks the only season in the decade where UNC has allowed fewer than the 12 goals allowed this season.
•The 2009 Carolina team became the 11th in the 31-year history of the program to post 18 shutouts in a season. Sunday, UNC will seek to become only the ninth team in UNC lore to record 19 or more shutouts in a single campaign.
•Kristi Eveland, Whitney and Casey Nogueira played in their 106th, 104th and 101st career games Friday. On Sunday, Eveland will tie Robin Confer of North Carolina for the NCAA record for games played in a career with 107. Confer played 107 games at UNC from 1994-97.
•Eveland and Engen are both over 100 career starts. Eveland has now started 103 games and Engen has taken the opening whistle on the pitch 102 times. The school record for games started is 104 by North Carolina's Yael Averbuch (2005-08).
•UNC defense has posted 18 clean sheets in 25 matches this year including nine blankings of foes in the past 10 games. UNC has had both seven and eight match shutout streaks this campaign.
•Carolina has now played 22 of its 26 games against teams that played in the 2009 NCAA Tournament field. UNC is 19-2-1 in those 22 encounters.
•Carolina had gone 26 games this year allowing only one goal in the first half.
•All three UNC losses in 2009 have come by a single goal. The last time UNC lost by a margin of two or more goals was 24 years in the 1985 NCAA championship game versus George Mason.
•Carolina has allowed only 48 shots to be taken by opponents in the last 10 games.
•UNC has allowed only 14 goals in the last 3,362 minutes and 16 seconds dating back to a 2-2 draw with Florida State on October 30, 2008.
*Carolina has posted clean sheets in 25 of their past 36 games.
•UNC is now 10-0-1 against non-ACC teams this season.
•Casey Nogueira now ranks 14th in UNC career scoring with 138 points. Meredith Florance ranks 13th with 150 points. Florance played at UNC from 1997-2000.
•Nogueira moved into a tie for 15th place in career goals with 55 after her tally against the Fighting Irish. She matches Stephanie Zeh's (1981-82) total of 55 tallies.
•In 31 years, UNC has averaged 22.41 wins per season while losing 1.16 games a year and posting 0.71 ties annually.
•North Carolina is 11-3 in one-goal decisions this year and 17-2-1 in games decided by shutouts.
•Tobin Heath and Whitney Engen were named Thursday as semifinalists for the 2009 Hermann Trophy. They were also named first-team National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Americas Friday.
•UNC's nine seniors comprise the winningest senior class in the country at 93-9-4. Notre Dame is second at 91-111-4. UCLA is third with a record of 84-10-5 for its senior class.
