Friday, October 7
Newton, Mass.
4 p.m.
North Carolina
at
Boston College
The Tar Heels hit the road for a pair of games in the Northeast this weekend before returning to KSS on Oct. 14.
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Newton, Mass. – The top-ranked North Carolina field hockey team plays a pair of ranked teams on the road this weekend, taking on No. 19 Boston College on Friday in Newton, Mass., then traveling to Storrs, Conn., to play No. 12 UConn on Sunday.
Friday's game is at 4 p.m. and will air on ACC Network Extra.
Sunday's is at 1 p.m. and will air on Flo Sports.
North Carolina comes into the weekend 9-0 overall, 2-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. With these two games, the Tar Heels will wrap up a span in which they've played six of seven games on the road, with the exception a Sept. 23 home-turf win over Wake Forest. They're coming off a 6-3 victory at No. 14 Liberty last Sunday.
Noting the Tar Heels:
• UNC is in its second week as the No. 1 team in the NFHCA national poll. The Tar Heels started the season at No. 2.
• UNC returns home for three in a row after this weekend, beginning with an ACC match-up against Syracuse on Oct. 14.
• Freshman Ryleigh Heck's older sister, Kara, is a junior on the field hockey team at BC.
• Through nine games, the Tar Heels are outshooting opponents 162-50 and outscoring them 40-9.
• UNC has outshot all nine opponents and out-cornered seven.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring margin (3.42) and goals per game (4.44),
• With nine points (four goals and an assist) at Liberty on Sunday, Erin Matson now has exactly 300 points for her career. She's six from the all-time ACC points record, held by Maryland's Katie O'Donnell, who scored 306 from 2007-10.
• Matson is the reigning ACC Offensive Player of the Week, sharing this week's honor with Virginia's Daniela Mendez-Trendler. Matson has won the award the last two weeks in a row and a total of three times this season.
• Four of Carolina's seven first-quarter goals this season have come from freshmen (three by Ryleigh Heck, all in the first two-and-a-half minutes of play, and one by Ashley Sessa).
• The Tar Heels have outscored opponents 21-5 before halftime this season. Iowa and Princeton, each with two goals at the break, and Liberty, with a first-quarter goal, are the only teams to score on UNC before halftime this season.
• Twelve different players have scored at least one goal for UNC this season.
Friday's game is at 4 p.m. and will air on ACC Network Extra.
Sunday's is at 1 p.m. and will air on Flo Sports.
North Carolina comes into the weekend 9-0 overall, 2-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. With these two games, the Tar Heels will wrap up a span in which they've played six of seven games on the road, with the exception a Sept. 23 home-turf win over Wake Forest. They're coming off a 6-3 victory at No. 14 Liberty last Sunday.
Noting the Tar Heels:
• UNC is in its second week as the No. 1 team in the NFHCA national poll. The Tar Heels started the season at No. 2.
• UNC returns home for three in a row after this weekend, beginning with an ACC match-up against Syracuse on Oct. 14.
• Freshman Ryleigh Heck's older sister, Kara, is a junior on the field hockey team at BC.
• Through nine games, the Tar Heels are outshooting opponents 162-50 and outscoring them 40-9.
• UNC has outshot all nine opponents and out-cornered seven.
• Carolina leads the ACC in scoring margin (3.42) and goals per game (4.44),
• With nine points (four goals and an assist) at Liberty on Sunday, Erin Matson now has exactly 300 points for her career. She's six from the all-time ACC points record, held by Maryland's Katie O'Donnell, who scored 306 from 2007-10.
• Matson is the reigning ACC Offensive Player of the Week, sharing this week's honor with Virginia's Daniela Mendez-Trendler. Matson has won the award the last two weeks in a row and a total of three times this season.
• Four of Carolina's seven first-quarter goals this season have come from freshmen (three by Ryleigh Heck, all in the first two-and-a-half minutes of play, and one by Ashley Sessa).
• The Tar Heels have outscored opponents 21-5 before halftime this season. Iowa and Princeton, each with two goals at the break, and Liberty, with a first-quarter goal, are the only teams to score on UNC before halftime this season.
• Twelve different players have scored at least one goal for UNC this season.
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