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Erin Matson has been named ACC Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season.
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Matson Named ACC Offensive Player of the Week
November 3, 2020 | Field Hockey
GREENSBORO, N.C. – For the second time this season, North Carolina junior forward Erin Matson has been named Atlantic Coast Conference Field Hockey Offensive Player of the Week. The league announced the honor, the final one of the 2020 fall season, on Tuesday.
Syracuse freshman back Eefke van den Niewenhof earned ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Matson delivered a hat trick Friday as UNC beat visiting Wake Forest 5-0. Just 2:34 into the game, she scored on a penalty corner to give the Tar Heels a 1-0 lead and what proved to be the game-winner. She went on to score Carolina's fourth and fifth goals of the game to boost her league-leading goals total to nine this season. Matson also leads the ACC in assists with six.
It was her fifth game-winning goal of the fall, also a league high. Matson has scored or assisted on every game-winner for the 7-1 Tar Heels.
Conference teams will now turn their attention the 2020 ACC Field Hockey Championship, which opens Thursday with three quarterfinal games on UNC's home turf at Karen Shelton Stadium. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the tournament is closed to the general public, but all six games will be carried live by ACC Network. For more information, click here.
Syracuse freshman back Eefke van den Niewenhof earned ACC Defensive Player of the Week honors.
Matson delivered a hat trick Friday as UNC beat visiting Wake Forest 5-0. Just 2:34 into the game, she scored on a penalty corner to give the Tar Heels a 1-0 lead and what proved to be the game-winner. She went on to score Carolina's fourth and fifth goals of the game to boost her league-leading goals total to nine this season. Matson also leads the ACC in assists with six.
It was her fifth game-winning goal of the fall, also a league high. Matson has scored or assisted on every game-winner for the 7-1 Tar Heels.
Conference teams will now turn their attention the 2020 ACC Field Hockey Championship, which opens Thursday with three quarterfinal games on UNC's home turf at Karen Shelton Stadium. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the tournament is closed to the general public, but all six games will be carried live by ACC Network. For more information, click here.
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