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Women's Lacrosse To Visit Louisville Thursday Night On ACCN
March 16, 2021 | Women's Lacrosse
Matchup: North Carolina (7-0, 3-0 ACC) at Louisville (4-2, 0-1 ACC)
UNC Ranks: No. 1/1/1 (IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse/USLacrosse)
UofL Ranks: No. 19/15/17 (IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse/USLacrosse)
Date: Thursday March 18, 2021
Site: Louisville, Ky. (UofL Lacrosse Stadium)
Time: 7 p.m.
Watch: ACC Network
Matchup: North Carolina vs. James Madison (4-1)
UNC Ranks: No. 1/1/1 (IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse/USLacrosse)
JMU Ranks: No. 24/-/- (IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse/USLacrosse)
Date: Sunday March 21, 2021
Site: Chapel Hill (Dorrance Field)
Time: 3 p.m.
Watch: ACC Network Extra
• Atop all the national polls and off to a 7-0 start in 2021 that's included wins over six ranked opponents, North Carolina's women's lacrosse team will play at Louisville on Thursday night and at home against James Madison on Sunday.
• The ACC Network will televise Thursday's game live from Louisville.
• ACC Network Extra will stream Sunday's game vs. James Madison.
• ACCNX is a streaming-only viewing option available via the ESPN app that broadcasts sporting events not available on ESPN's linear television networks. ACCNX access is included if your cable, satellite or streaming service provider carries ACC Network. Fans will need to use their account with their cable, satellite or streaming provider to log in at the WatchESPN website or download the ESPN app for their mobile or streaming device.
Tar Heel Tidbits
• Ranks: The Tar Heels are ranked No. 1 in the nation by the IWLCA, Inside Lacrosse and USLacrosse.
• Scoring Streak: Carolina has scored 10 or more goals in 23 consecutive games (dating to 2019).
• Winning Streak: UNC has won 14 consecutive games. The longest winning streak in school history is 20 games (17 in a row to end the 2016 season & 3-0 to start 2017).
• Hot Start: Carolina is 7-0 in 2021. The best start in school history is 11-0 in 2014.
• Stellar D: UNC has held opponents to single-digit goals in all seven games this season.
• UNC's defense has limited opponents to a shooting percentage of .262 in 2021.
• Scoring Margin: The Tar Heels have outscored their 2021 opponents, 117-39 (a scoring margin of +11.1 goals per game that is the best in school history). Carolina's closest game in 2021 has been a five-goal win (11-6) over No. 8 Florida on Feb. 19.
• Attacker Jamie Ortega is Carolina's career leader in goals and has scored two or more goals in 51 of 56 career games. She has scored five or more goals 20 times as a Tar Heel.
• Ortega has scored at least one goal in 21 consecutive games.
• Ortega has tallied at least one point in 50 consecutive games and 55 of 56 in her career.
• Attacker Katie Hoeg holds the UNC career record for assists and has 48 career multi-assist games.
• Goalie Taylor Moreno has a career record of 36-5. She has started 40 consecutive games in the cage for the Tar Heels, beginning with the final five games of the 2018 season.
• Moreno has 14 career games with 10 or more saves, including two in 2021.
• Moreno's 2021 goals-against average is 5.63, over three goals per game better than her career average entering the 2021 season of 9.12.
Five On Tewaaraton Watch List
• Five UNC seniors led the watch list for the sport's most prestigious award, the Tewaaraton Award given to the nation's top player.
• Tar Heels on the watch list include attacker Scottie Rose Growney, attacker Katie Hoeg, goalie Taylor Moreno, attacker Jamie Ortega and defender Emma Trenchard.
• UNC and Syracuse led the way with five players each on the watch list. Notre Dame and Northwestern each had four.
Ortega Breaks UNC Career Goals Record
• Jamie Ortega broke the UNC program record for career goals in the Feb. 28 win over Vanderbilt.
• Entering the game at Louisville, Ortega has scored 210 goals, topping the previous record of 198 set by Abbey Friend from 2011-14.
Stout Defense Leads The Way
• Led by senior All-Americas Emma Trenchard and Taylor Moreno, the UNC defense has held each of its seven 2021 opponents to single-digit goals.
• No Tar Heel opponent has scored more than the nine goals 11th-ranked Boston College scored on March 6.
• In the Feb. 28 win over Vanderbilt, Carolina forced a season-high 17 turnovers, including a career-high four by graduate student defender Catie Woodruff.
• Caroline Wakefield leads the Tar Heels with nine caused turnovers in 2021, while Emily Nalls and Trenchard are tied for the team lead UNC with 14 ground balls, often using their speed to turn those loose balls into quick offensive fast-break opportunities.
Series History vs. the Cardinals
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Louisville, 6-0.
• Last year, the Tar Heels beat the Cardinals, 19-7, in Chapel Hill..
The Series Against the Dukes
• Carolina leads the all-time series with James Madison, 8-4.
• Last year, the Tar Heels won, 15-7, over the Dukes in Harrisonburg, Va.
• The most notable game between UNC and JMU came three years ago, when the third-seeded Dukes beat the second-seeded Tar Heels by a score of 15-12 in the NCAA Tournament semifinals at LaValle Stadium on Long Island on May 25, 2018. JMU went on to capture its first national title two days later.
Hoeg & Ortega Are The Top-Scoring Duo In Tar Heel History
• Senior attackers Katie Hoeg and Jamie Ortega are the top two scorers in Carolina women's lacrosse history.
• Hoeg has 294 career points, most in UNC history.
• Ortega has 282 points, second in school history behind Hoeg.
• Hoeg's 183 assists and 2.44 career assists per game are the best in UNC history by a wide margin. Her 73 assists in 2019 are the UNC single-season record.
• Ortega's 210 career goals and 3.75 career goals per game are the best in school history by a comfortable margin. She recorded a UNC-record 81 goals and 112 points as a sophomore in 2019.
• Hoeg and Ortega shared 2020 National Player of the Year honors from Inside Lacrosse. In just seven games last year, they combined for 97 points. Hoeg had 52 points on 22 goals and 30 assists, while Ortega had 45 points on 32 goals and 13 assists (prior to the cancellation of the season due to Covid-19).
• Ortega and Hoeg combined for 216 of Carolina's 490 points in 2019, becoming the first pair of 100-point scorers in program history.
Ortega Named IWLCA National co-Offensive Player of the Week
• Jamie Ortega scored a season-high six goals to lead the top-ranked Tar Heels to a 21-9 win over Boston College on March 6. She spearheaded an 11-2 run with four goals in the second half, extending her goals streak to 20 consecutive games and posting her 50th career multi-goal game. The senior attacker scored her 200th career goal in the first half on UNC's second goal of the game and also added a ground ball and caused turnover to her stat line.
Ortega Named ACC co-Offensive Player of the Week
• Jamie Ortega and Boston College senior attacker Charlotte North were named the ACC Women's Lacrosse Co-Offensive Players of the Week on March 2.
• Ortega broke the UNC career goals record on Sunday in a win over Vanderbilt when she scored her 199th career goal, breaking the previous record set by Abbey Friend from 2011-14. A native of Centereach, New York, she posted eight goals and four assists in two Tar Heel wins last week
Trenchard & Growney Sweep Named ACC & Player of the Week Honors
• Senior defender Emma Trenchard was named ACC Defensive Player of the Week on Feb. 23 and senior Scottie Rose Growney was the ACC Offensive Player of the Week.
• Growney scored seven goals on 12 shots as UNC rolled past Florida and High Point. She scored four goals, including two in each half, Friday against Florida. She scored two of her goals during a key 5-1 second-half run as UNC pulled away from a one-goal lead and put the game out of reach. She added three goals, two assists and a draw control Sunday against HPU.
• Trenchard was solid across the field in UNC's weekend wins. On Friday against Florida, she marked first-team All-America Shannon Kavanagh, limiting the senior to just one goal while also forcing a turnover. On Sunday against High Point, she initiated the UNC attack on a pair of fast breaks and recorded two assists (she had one career assist entering the game). She also added two ground balls and a draw control.
Moreno Named ACC & National Defensive Player of the Week
• Senior goalie Taylor Moreno picked up a couple of awards on Feb. 16.
• The ACC honored Moreno as its initial Defensive Player of the Week for the 2021 season, and the IWLCA named her its National Defensive Player of the Week.
• Moreno went the distance in the cage for Carolina, making 10 saves and allowing seven goals in the top-ranked Tar Heels' 14-7 win over No. 6 Stony Brook on Feb. 14. After the Seawolves came out of halftime with three consecutive goals to cut UNC's lead to 9-7 early in the second half, Moreno held them scoreless for the final 23:28 of the game.
Six Preseason All-Americas
• Six Tar Heels earned 2021 Preseason All-America accolades from Inside Lacrosse for 2021.
• Four UNC players grabbed first-team honors, most of any school in the nation. That quartet includes graduate student attacker Katie Hoeg, senior attacker Jamie Ortega, graduate student midfielder Kerrigan Miller and senior defender Emma Trenchard.
• Senior goalie Taylor Moreno was on the third team, and senior attacker Scottie Rose Growney earned honorable mention.
• The honors give Carolina returning All-Americas at every position on the field—attack (Hoeg, Ortega, Growney), midfield (Miller), defense (Trenchard) and goalie (Moreno).
Tar Heels Top All the National Polls
• Carolina is ranked No. 1 in all the national polls, including the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IWLCA), Inside Lacrosse and Nike/USLacrosse.
All-Americas Miller & Borque Join As Grad Transfers
• A pair of Inside Lacrosse Media All-Americans during the coronavirus-shortened 2020 season, Katie Bourque and Kerrigan Miller, have joined the Tar Heel lacrosse program as graduate transfers.
• Borque and Miller spent the past four years at Dartmouth and Southern California, respectively. Both players are eligible to play in 2021 and have one season of eligibility remaining after the NCAA granted spring student-athletes an extra year due to the 2020 season being cut short. Unfortunately, Borque suffered a knee injury in the Fall of 2020.
• Miller was a four-time All-America midfielder at USC and member of the U.S. national team, coached there by UNC's Jenny Levy. She also is a childhood friend of UNC's Katie Hoeg from their days growing up in Long Island. Miller earned second-team All-America honors from ILWomen in 2020. The midfielder finished second on her team in ground balls (16) and caused turnovers (8) and tied for second in draw controls (13). She also tallied 11 points (10 goals and one assist).
• The No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2016 according to ILWomen, Miller received Mountain Pacific Sport Federation Rookie of the Year honors in 2017. She then followed that up by being named the Pac-12 Midfielder of the Year in 2018 and 2019. In 66 games at USC, she hit the century mark in five key statistical categories: goals (104), points (143), ground balls (158), caused turnovers (120) and draw controls (157).
• Bourque garnered third-team All-America honors from ILWomen in 2020 while leading Dartmouth to a 5-0 record and a No. 9 ranking in the final IWLCA national poll. One of the nation's top scorers, she paced the Big Green in goals (21) and points (27). She finished the year ranked seventh nationally in goals per game (4.2) and tied for 12th in points per game (5.4).
Sparkling Home Stadium
• Carolina plays in one of the nation's finest women's lacrosse facilities.
• UNC opened its new, on-campus UNC Lacrosse & Soccer Stadium on March 2, 2019. In the inaugural women's lacrosse game played there, the third-ranked Tar Heels downed fifth-ranked Northwestern, 21-11.
• UNC went 6-1 in its new stadium in 2019 and 3-0 in the shortened 2020 season.
• Construction began on the facility in May 2017. It is built on the site of the old Fetzer Field, which housed six sports on campus from 1935 through 2017 and where the women's lacrosse team posted a 139-27 record.
• In September 2019, the stadium was dedicated as Dorrance Field in honor of longtime Carolina women's soccer coach Anson Dorrance.
