No. 1 WLAX Hosts Notre Dame Saturday

• The University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team (11-0, 4-0 ACC), the nation's top-ranked team in the IWLCA/Inside Lacrosse poll, will look to improve to 5-0 in Atlantic Coast Conference play when it hosts No. 15 Notre Dame (4-6, 1-3) on Saturday April 2 at 11 a.m. at Dorrance Field.
• ACC Network Extra will stream the game live.
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• The Tar Heels are coming off a dominant, 20-8 win over 25th-ranked Virginia Tech last Saturday.
• UNC has won 37 consecutive regular season games, 28 consecutive home games, 16 consecutive road games and 38 of its last 39 games overall.

Series History vs. the Fighting Irish
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Notre Dame, 10-1.
• Last year, the Tar Heels beat the Fighting Irish twice—11-10 in the regular season at Notre Dame and 18-4 in the ACC Tournament semifinals in Chapel Hill.
• Carolina is 6-1 against Notre Dame in regular season games and 6-0 at home.
• UNC has won 37 consecutive regular season games. Its last regular season loss came at Notre Dame on March 31, 2019.

Tar Heel Tidbits
Team
• Scoring Run: Carolina has scored 10 or more goals in 47 of the last 48 games (a run that began on April 6, 2019). The exception was the 2021 ACC Tournament final vs. Syracuse (9).
• UNC has won 38 of its last 39 games. Carolina won 27 in a row, the longest winning streak in school history and the seventh-longest in NCAA history, prior to the season-ending loss in the 2021 national semifinal to Boston College.
• Carolina has won 46 of its last 48 games overall (a run that began on April 6, 2019). The only two Tar Heel losses during the last 47 games came to Boston College in the 2019 and 2021 NCAA Tournament semifinals.
• The Tar Heels have won 37 consecutive regular season games.
• Carolina has won 28 home games in a row, the longest home winning streak in school history.
• UNC has won 16 consecutive road games, the longest road winning streak in school history.
• Carolina leads the nation in assists (10.73 per game).
• Carolina is averaging 18.36 goals per game this season, ranking second in the nation and on pace to be the highest mark in program history. The UNC school record is 15.90 in 2017.
• Carolina has scored at least 15 goals in every game this season and has scored 20 or more six times in 11 outings.
• The Tar Heels are allowing 8.62 goals per game in 2022, the ACC's best and the nation's seventh-best scoring defense. UNC led the nation in scoring defense in 2021, posting the second-best goals per game allowed average (6.58) in school history and the best in 25 years. The school record is 5.52, set in 1997 (UNC's second year as a varsity program).
• Carolina has held its opponents to single-digit goals in 29 of its last 38 games (since the start of the 2020 season).
• In the 2022 preseason, Inside Lacrosse ranked the Carolina defensive and midfield units as best in the nation and its attack group as the nation's second-best (behind Boston College).

Individual Tidbits
• Andie Aldave, a graduate transfer from Notre Dame, leads the ACC and is sixth in the nation in shooting percentage at a blistering .638.
• Aldave scored a career-high six goals against Louisville on March 13 and scored four goals in the win at No. 1-ranked Boston College on March 20.
• Sam Geiersbach has 14 goals and 16 assists in the last seven games off the bench.
• Scottie Rose Growney is second on the team in shooting percentage at .574 (27 of 47) and is third on the team with 27 goals.
• Growney has scored at least two goals in 10 of 11 games this season.
• Caitlyn Wurzburger is second on the team with 22 assists and 45 points.
• Junior defender Emily Nalls was one of 13 players nationally added to the Tewaaraton Award Watch List on March 10. She tied the school record with 10 ground balls at High Point. Nalls leads UNC with 13 caused turnovers and 24 ground balls and is second with 38 draw controls.

ACC Weekly Honors For Nalls & Ortega
• Duke graduate attacker Catriona Barry and North Carolina senior attacker Jamie Ortega were named the ACC Co-Offensive Players of the Week, while Duke senior goalie Sophia LeRose and UNC junior defender Emily Nalls were selected the Co-Defensive Players of the Week as the conference announced weekly women's lacrosse honors on March 29.
• Ortega recorded nine goals and four assists in two wins. She tied her season high with nine points (six goals, three assists) in a 23-9 win at High Point. She became the fifth player in NCAA history and second in ACC history to record 400 career points when she scored in the opening minutes. In a 20-8 win over No. 25 Virginia Tech, Ortega finished with three goals and an assist, moving into third place in NCAA history in career goals with 300. Ortega is the third player in NCAA history to tally 300 career goals. She finished the week fourth in NCAA history in points (412) and third in goals (300).
• Nalls led a strong defensive effort for the Tar Heels in a pair of wins last week. In Wednesday's win at High Point, she tied the UNC school record with 10 ground balls while also controlling nine draws and causing two turnovers. In the win over Virginia Tech, she gathered two ground balls and four draw controls while causing a turnover.

#1 In The National Polls
• Carolina moved into the No. 1 spot in the ILWomen/IWLCA rankings on March 21 after its win at previously-top-ranked Boston College.
• UNC had been ranked No. 2 nationally in every poll this season prior to winning at BC.

Ortega Rewriting Record Books
• Attacker Jamie Ortega is rewriting the UNC, ACC and NCAA record books.
• Ortega became just the fifth player in NCAA history to record 400 or more points with a nine-point effort at High Point on March 23. She is currently fourth in NCAA history with 412 points, one behind third-place Taryn Ohlmiller of Stony Brook (2017-21), who has 413.
• She is Carolina's career points leader, setting the record on February 24 at Pitt. She he also is UNC's career goals leader, having set that record in 2021.
• Despite being a fifth-year senior, Ortega still hasn't played four full seasons since the 2020 campaign was cut short after seven games due to the Covid-19 pandemic and Ortega missed nearly two full contests in 2021 due to injury.
• Ortega broke the UNC career points record in her 72nd career game, 17 games (almost a full season) fewer than it took Hoeg to set the record.
• Ortega has 412 points in 80 career games for a UNC-record 5.15 points per game. Katie Hoeg had 370 points in 89 games (4.16 ppg).
• Ortega is second in ACC history in career points. Jen Adams of Maryland is first with 445.

• Ortega needs:
- 34 points to be ACC's career points leader (she has 412; record is 445 by Jen Adams of Maryland)
- 2 points to pass Taryn Ohlmiller of Stony Brook for third place in NCAA history in career points.

• Ortega has scored at least one goal in 45 consecutive games.
• Ortega has scored two or more goals in 71 of 80 career games.
• Her 300 career goals are third in NCAA history and second in ACC annals. Current BC player Charlotte North is first in ACC history with 316 goals.
• Ortega has scored five or more goals 29 times as a Tar Heel.
• Ortega has tallied at least one point in 74 consecutive games and 79 of 80 in her career.
• Ortega became the third player in Carolina history top compile at least 100 assists with three on March 6 vs. Northwestern. She is third among Tar Heels in career assists with 111.
• 2022 Preseason Honors: Preseason First-Team All-America (USA Lacrosse, Inside Lacrosse), No. 2 overall player in the nation (men's and women's; Inside Lacrosse), Preseason All-ACC, Tewaaraton Award Watch List

Mastroianni Excelling in Midfield
• Graduate student midfielder Ally Mastroianni won the 2021 ACC Midfielder of the Year award but might be having an even better season as a graduate student in 2022. She has been at her best in big games.
• In the March 20 win at top-ranked Boston College, she had two goals (including the game-winner) and five draw controls.
• She tied her career high with four goals and set a new career high with five points in UNC's 20-9 win over No. 6 Northwestern on March 6.
• She leads Carolina with 70 draw controls this season. She also led UNC with a career-high 112 DCs in 2021, earning unanimous first-team All-America honors.
• She was among three Tar Heels and 52 ACC student-athletes selected as 2021 Weaver-James-Corrigan Postgraduate Scholarship Award recipients. Chris Gray (men's lacrosse), Rachel Jones (women's soccer) and Mastroianni (women's lacrosse) were part of the list of conference honorees announced on March 24.
• Mastroianni, from Martinsville, N.J., earned a degree in 2021 with a double major in media & journalism and communication studies. She is now pursuing a master's degree in media and communication while also spearheading UNC's community service efforts off the field.
• 2022 Preseason Honors: Preseason First-Team All-America (USA Lacrosse, Inside Lacrosse), No. 11 overall player in the nation (men's and women's; Inside Lacrosse), Preseason All-ACC, Tewaaraton Award Watch List

Tar Heels Streaking at Dorrance
• Carolina has won 28 consecutive home games at Dorrance Field, the longest home winning streak in program history.
• UNC's last loss at home came on March 23, 2019, to Boston College.

ACC Dominance
• Carolina is 60-6 in its last 66 games against Atlantic Coast Conference opponents (regular season and postseason) and has won five consecutive ACC Tournaments.
• UNC's five straight ACC titles are the second-longest streak in the event's history (behind Maryland's six straight from 2009-14).
• UNC's 15 consecutive ACC Tournament wins are the longest streak in the history of the tournament.
• Since a loss in the 2015 ACC Tournament final, UNC's' only losses to conference foes have come to Boston College (four times), Syracuse (once, in 2017) and Notre Dame (once, in 2019).

Moreno Snaps UNC Career Wins Record
• Graduate student goalie Taylor Moreno has a career record of 59-6 in the cage and became Carolina's all-time leader in goalie wins on Feb. 16 against Furman.
• Moreno has started 65 consecutive games in the cage for the Tar Heels, beginning with the final five games of the 2018 season.
• Moreno has three games with 10+ saves this season.
• Moreno has 20 career games with 11 or more saves, including five in 2021 and three in 2022.
• She was named ACC Defensive Player of the Week on Feb. 22 after the wins over Furman and Florida.
• Moreno eclipsed the record of Caylee Waters (2014-17), who had 49 victories. Waters is a volunteer assistant coach for the 2022 Tar Heels.
• 2022 Preseason Honors: Preseason National Goalie of the Year (USA Lacrosse), Preseason ACC Defensive Player of the Year (Inside Lacrosse), Preseason First-Team All-America (USA Lacrosse, Inside Lacrosse), No. 7 overall player in the nation (men's and women's; Inside Lacrosse), Preseason All-ACC, Tewaaraton Award Watch List
• In 2021, Moreno finished second in the nation in goals against average (a career-best 6.65) and save percentage (a career-high .549). Her goals-against average was nearly three goals per game better than her career average entering the 2021 season (9.12).
• She is a two-time ACC Tournament MVP (2018, 2021).
• In the 2021 ACC Tournament, she earned MVP honors for the second time after leading the Tar Heels to three wins. Moreno allowed just 4.78 goals per game in three UNC victories, posting a save percentage of .611.

Tewaaraton Award Watch List Includes Seven Tar Heels
• Six UNC players made the intitial watch list for the 2022 Tewaaraton Award, most of any school in the nation.
• A seventh Tar Heel, Emily Nalls, was added on March 10.
• Tar Heels on the initiail list include Olivia Dirks, Ally Mastroianni, Taylor Moreno, Jamie Ortega, Emma Trenchard and Caitlyn Wurzburger.
• The list includes the top players in NCAA lacrosse and highlight the early contenders for the 2022 Tewaaraton Award, given to the national Player of the Year.
• Moreno and Ortega both were among the five finalists for the 2021 Tewaaraton Award.

Nine Preseason ILWomen All-Americas
• Carolina placed nine players on the 2022 Inside Lacrosse Preseason All-America Team, leading all schools nationally in total players on the list (nine), players on the first-, second- and third-team teams (seven) and first-team honorees (five).
• Tar Heels on the ILWomen preseason first team include players at all four positions on the field: attacker Jamie Ortega, midfielders Olivia Dirks and Ally Mastroianni, defender Emma Trenchard and goalie Taylor Moreno. Ortega, Mastroianni, Trenchard and Moreno all were consensus first-team All-Americas after the 2021 season.
• UNC attackers Andie Aldave and Caitlyn Wurzburger both grabbed spots on the third team, while attacker Scottie Rose Growney and defender Emily Nalls both made honorable mention.
• Carolina's five first-team honorees were the most in the nation, followed by Syracuse's three.

Six Tar Heels On US National Team
• Head coach Jenny Levy and her staff have named the final 18-player roster that will represent the United States in this summer's World Lacrosse Women's World Championship, and six of the players are current or former UNC players who played as Tar Heels for Levy.
• The six Carolina players, most of any school in the nation, include goalie Caylee Waters (UNC '17), fifth-year senior defender Emma Trenchard ('22), graduate student midfielder Ally Mastroianni ('21), midfielder Marie McCool ('18), midfielder Emily Parros ('13) and attacker Molly Hendrick ('17).

Tar Heels in the National Spotlight
• Six UNC games will be televised nationally by ESPNU and the ACC Network in 2022, the networks announced on Monday.
• UNC's six national broadcasts on the networks lead all schools in the nation. No other school has more than four. Tar Heel national broadcasts include:
• February 24 at Pitt, 4 p.m. (ACCN)
• March 6 vs. Northwestern, Noon (ESPNU)
• March 20 at Boston College, 2 p.m. (ESPNU)
• April 9 at Syracuse, 2 p.m.(ESPNU)
• April 14 at Virginia, 8 p.m. (ACCN)
• April 21 vs. Duke, 8 p.m. (ACCN)

• All Carolina home games not listed above will be streamed live by ACC Network Extra, available on smart TVs and via the ESPN app.
• The ACC Network will air the entire 2022 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament, and ESPNU will televise all games of the 2022 NCAA Championship weekend on May 27-29.

Fedor Wins AD Scholar-Athlete Award
• Each school year, Carolina Athletics honors members of each varsity team as Athletic Director's Scholar-Athletes, recognizing one from each UNC team for outstanding academic achievement.
• Amanda Fedor, a senior exercise & sport science major from Vestal, N.Y., was the women's lacrosse winner.

Last Year
• Carolina went 20-1 overall in 2021, including 9-0 in the Atlantic Coast Conference, won its fifth consecutive ACC championship and made its 12th appearance in the NCAA Women's Lacrosse Tournament final four.
• The Tar Heels made their ninth final four appearance in the last 12 NCAA Tournaments (2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021).

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Players Mentioned

Andie Aldave

Olivia Dirks

Amanda Fedor

Sam Geiersbach

Scottie Rose Growney

Katie Hoeg

Ally Mastroianni

Taylor Moreno

Emily Nalls

Jamie Ortega

Emma Trenchard

Caitlyn Wurzburger

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