Hoeg's Record Day Leads WLAX By Cardinals, 19-6

Wednesday, April 28

Chapel Hill

Noon

North Carolina

Louisville (Quarterfinal)

Katie Hoeg had a career-high and ACC Tournament-record seven assists in Wednesday's win.

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April 28, 2021 | Women's Lacrosse

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CHAPEL HILL—Behind a tournament single-game record seven assists from Katie Hoeg, top-seeded North Carolina kicked off the ACC Women's Lacrosse Championship with a 19-6 victory over No. 8 seed Louisville Wednesday at Dorrance Field in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

UNC (16-0) advances to play the winner of the No. 4 Notre Dame-No. 5 Duke contest at noon on Friday in the semifinals.

Hoeg's seven assists also were a career high as she broke her own tournament record of six assists, set in the quarterfinals of the 2019 tournament against Virginia Tech. UNC totaled 14 assists as a team, matching a tournament record that the Tar Heels also set in their 2019 tourney game against the Hokies.

Taylor Warehime scored four goals for UNC, including a hat trick in first half, while Scottie Rose Growney also recorded four goals. Jamie Ortega and Caitlyn Wurzburger each posted hat tricks. Ally Hall recorded a pair of goals for Louisville (5-11), including the 100th goal of her career on her second score of the first half. Caroline Blalock also scored a pair of goals for UofL.

After Louisville knotted the score 1-1 with 27:36 remaining in the first half on a Blalock goal, the Tar Heels held UofL scoreless for nearly 12 minutes while rattling off six unanswered goals to take a 7-1 advantage before a Hall goal at the 15:54 mark stopped the run.

UNC dominated the draw in the first half, winning the first nine draw controls of the game to dominate the possession.

After Louisville cut the Carolina lead to 9-5 with 4:15 left in the first half, the Tar Heels scored the final two goals of the first half to take an 11-5 edge into the halftime break and then notched the first eight goals in the second half to break things open. The Cardinals scored with 21 seconds remaining to break a 33:07 scoring drought.

The 2021 ACC Women's Lacrosse Championship continues with No. 4 seed Notre Dame against No. 5 seed Duke at approximately 2:30 p.m. No. 2 seed Syracuse and No. 7 seed Virginia Tech are set to face off at 5 p.m., while No. 3 seed Boston College takes on No. 6 seed Virginia in the nightcap slated for 7:30 p.m.

The semifinals will take place on Friday at noon and 2:30 p.m., while the championship game will be played Sunday at noon. All seven games of the tournament will be televised on ACC Network.