University of North Carolina Athletics
Matson Earns ACC Weekly Honor
August 28, 2018 | Field Hockey
GREENSBORO, N.C. (The ACC.com) – North Carolina's Erin Matson has been named ACC Field Hockey Offensive Player of the Week following the season's first weekend of action. The Tar Heels opened the season with a pair of wins at brand-new Carolina Field Hockey Stadium in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge.
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Syracuse's Roos Weers and Duke's Jillian Wolgemuth shared Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors.
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Matson had two goals and two assists to help No. 2 North Carolina to a pair of wins over the past weekend. In her collegiate debut, the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, freshman assisted on two penalty corner goals against No. 5 Michigan and scored one of her own early in the second half in a 5-1 win Friday. Two days later, she scored the game-tying goal in the 62nd minute of play as North Carolina came back from a 1-0 deficit to post a 2-1 win over No. 20 Iowa in overtime.
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Weers scored a goal in each game as No. 11 Syracuse opened the season with a pair of wins. In Friday's 4-1 win over Vermont, the Bussum, Netherlands, senior played a key role in limiting the visiting Catamounts to only eight shots. In Sunday's 1-0 win over No. 21 Albany, Weers tallied the game-winning goal and spearhead a defensive unit that stopped a late Albany push of five corners in the final 20 seconds of the game, four of which happened after time expired.
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Wolgemuth helped lead third-ranked Duke to a pair of wins against ranked opponents over the weekend. In Friday's 4-0 win over No. 22 William & Mary, she had the first assist of her career and anchored a defensive that held the Tribe to just three shots – and only one on cage. In Sunday's 4-3 overtime victory against No. 23 Liberty, the Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, junior keyed a defensive effort that allowed only 10 shots in over 72 minutes of action despite Liberty earning eight corners on the day.
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The Tar Heels are back in action this weekend in Philadelphia, taking on No. 10 Princeton on Friday and host Penn on Sunday.
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Syracuse's Roos Weers and Duke's Jillian Wolgemuth shared Co-Defensive Player of the Week honors.
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Matson had two goals and two assists to help No. 2 North Carolina to a pair of wins over the past weekend. In her collegiate debut, the Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, freshman assisted on two penalty corner goals against No. 5 Michigan and scored one of her own early in the second half in a 5-1 win Friday. Two days later, she scored the game-tying goal in the 62nd minute of play as North Carolina came back from a 1-0 deficit to post a 2-1 win over No. 20 Iowa in overtime.
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Weers scored a goal in each game as No. 11 Syracuse opened the season with a pair of wins. In Friday's 4-1 win over Vermont, the Bussum, Netherlands, senior played a key role in limiting the visiting Catamounts to only eight shots. In Sunday's 1-0 win over No. 21 Albany, Weers tallied the game-winning goal and spearhead a defensive unit that stopped a late Albany push of five corners in the final 20 seconds of the game, four of which happened after time expired.
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Wolgemuth helped lead third-ranked Duke to a pair of wins against ranked opponents over the weekend. In Friday's 4-0 win over No. 22 William & Mary, she had the first assist of her career and anchored a defensive that held the Tribe to just three shots – and only one on cage. In Sunday's 4-3 overtime victory against No. 23 Liberty, the Mount Joy, Pennsylvania, junior keyed a defensive effort that allowed only 10 shots in over 72 minutes of action despite Liberty earning eight corners on the day.
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The Tar Heels are back in action this weekend in Philadelphia, taking on No. 10 Princeton on Friday and host Penn on Sunday.
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