Tar Heels Vs. Pitt In ACC WLAX Quarterfinal Friday

• The University of North Carolina women's lacrosse team (15-0, 8-0 ACC) will try to win its sixth consecutive Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament beginning this weekend in Notre Dame, Ind.
• As the event's top seed, Carolina will face No. 8 seed Pitt on Friday at noon in the quarterfinals. Pitt beat No. 9 seed Louisville in Wednesday's first round.
• If UNC wins its quarterfinal game, the Tar Heels will play either No. 4 seed Duke or No. 5 seed Notre Dame on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the semifinals.
• The highest remaining seed after the semis will host the 2022 ACC championship game on its home field on May 7 at 6 p.m.
• The ACC Tournament will be a showcase of the top teams in the nation. In this week's ILWomen/IWlCA poll, ACC teams are the top three teams in the nation (No. 1 UNC, No. 2 Boston College, No. 3 Syracuse), four of the top seven (No. 7 Duke) and six of the top 20 (No. 16 Virginia, No. 20 Notre Dame).
• UNC won its last outing, 18-4, over No. 5 Duke last Thursday in Chapel Hill, winning its 41st consecutive regular season contest.
• Jamie Ortega needs 10 points to become the ACC's career points leader. She has 436 entering the ACC Tournament, and the record is 445 (set by Jen Adams of Maryland from 1998-2001).
• The ACCN will televise every game of the ACC Tournament this week. Jay Alter (play-by-play), Sheehan Stanwick Burch (analyst) and Dana Boyle (sideline) will have the call.

Carolina Seeks Sixth Consecutive ACC Title & Seventh Overall
• Carolina has an all-time record of 32-18 in ACC Tournament play and captured its fifth conference title in a row in 2021.
• The Tar Heels have won six ACC championships (2002, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021).
• UNC is seeking its sixth title in a row, which would tie the longest streak of consecutive titles in ACC history (with Maryland's six straight from 2009-14).
• Carolina has won 15 consecutive ACC Tournament games, the longest win streak in ACC Tournament history. UNC's last ACC Tournament loss came in the 2015 title game to Syracuse.
• UNC's six ACC titles are second-most in conference history. Maryland holds the record with 11.
• Carolina has reached the ACC championship game six years in a row, 10 times in the last 11 years and 14 times overall (1998, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021).
• Jenny Levy is seeking her seventh ACC championship, which would pass Cathy Reese of Maryland for the most in ACC history.
• The Tar Heels are the No. 1 seed in the ACC Tournament for a ninth time. Carolina is 15-5 all-time as the No. 1 seed, winning titles in 2016, 2017 and 2021.
• UNC is 12-0 all-time in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.
• Carolina is 14-10 in the ACC semifinals. The Tar Heels have won 10 of their last 11 ACC semifinal games.
• UNC is 6-8 in ACC Tournament finals, winning in 2002 over Maryland, 2016, 2017 and 2021 over Syracuse and 2018 and 2019 over Boston College.

Tar Heel Hot Streaks
Carolina has:
• Won 41 consecutive regular season games
(last loss: 7-9, 3/31/19 at Notre Dame)
• Won 22 consecutive regular season ACC games
(last loss: 7-9, 3/31/19 at Notre Dame).
• Won 15 consecutive ACC Tournament games, the longest streak in the event's history
(last loss: 2015 final to Syracuse)
• Won 30 consecutive home games
(last loss: 8-14, 3/23/19 vs. Boston College)
• Won 18 consecutive road games
(last loss: 7-9, 3/31/19 at Notre Dame)
• Won 42 of its last 43 games
• Won 50 of its last 52 games
• Won 10 ACC regular season championships, including five of the last seven (beginning in 2015, excluding the COVID year of 2020 and including 2022)
• Won five consecutive ACC Tournament titles—the second-longest streak in the event's history (behind Maryland's six straight from 2009-14)

10x ACC Regular Season Champs
• Carolina (8-0 in the ACC) won its 10th ACC regular season championship in 2022 (1998, 2000, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022).
• This is Carolina's seventh outright ACC regular season title (1998, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022).
• Carolina has won 22 consecutive regular season ACC games.

Series History vs. Pitt
• Carolina leads the all-time series 1-0 with Pitt, winning the only meeting earlier this season, 15-5, at Pitt on February 24.

Series History vs. Duke
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Duke, 28-14.
• The Tar Heels have won 13 consecutive games in the series and 16 of the last 17.
• Last week, Carolina beat Duke, 18-4, in Chapel Hill to claim the top seed in this week's ACC Tournament.
• Head coaches Jenny Levy and Kerstin Kimel are longtime close friends, as UNC and Duke each launched their women's lacrosse programs in 1996. They represent two of the seven winningest head coaches in NCAA Division I women's lacrosse history (Levy 3rd, Kimel 7th).

Series History vs. Notre Dame
• Carolina leads the all-time series with Notre Dame, 11-1. The Tar Heels are 2-0 against Notre Dame in the ACC Tournament (wins in 2015 and 2021).
• Earlier this season, UNC beat the Fighting Irish, 15-7, in Chapel Hill on April 2. 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.

Tar Heel Tidbits
Team
• Scoring Run: Carolina has scored 10 or more goals in 51 of the last 52 games (a run that began on April 6, 2019). The exception was the 2021 ACC Tournament final vs. Syracuse (nine).
• UNC has won 42 of its last 43 games.
• Carolina has won 50 of its last 52 games overall (a run that began on April 6, 2019). The only two Tar Heel losses during the last 50 games came to Boston College in the 2019 and 2021 NCAA Tournament semifinals.
• The Tar Heels have won 41 consecutive regular season games.
• Carolina has won 30 home games in a row, the longest home winning streak in school history.
• UNC has won 18 consecutive road games, the longest road winning streak in school history.
• The current Tar Heel senior class (2018-22) has posted a record of 76-9 in five seasons.
• In 2022, Carolina is 10-0 vs. top-25 teams, 5-0 vs. top-10 teams and 3-0 vs. top-five teams.
• Among the NCAA's Best: The Tar Heels are second in the nation and best in the ACC in shooting percentage (.517), assists (9.67 per game), scoring offense (17.73) and scoring margin (9.27). Carolina leads the nation in points per game (27.40).
• The 2022 Tar Heels are on pace to be the highest-scoring team in program history. Carolina is averaging 17.73 goals per game this season, ranking second in the nation. The UNC school record is 15.90, set in 2017.
• Carolina has scored at least 15 goals in 14 of 15 games this season and has scored 20 or more six times.
• The Tar Heels are allowing 8.47 goals per game in 2022, the ACC's best and the nation's seventh-best scoring defense.
• With a long list of recent All-America defenders and goalies in Chapel Hill under the tutelege of defensive coordinator Phil Barnes, Carolina's defense has held its opponents to single-digit goals in 32 of its last 42 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, is third in the ACC in shooting percentage at .569.
• 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.
• Graduate transfer Sam Geiersbach (Richmond) has 18 goals and 20 assists in the last 12 games, providing instant offense off the bench.
• Scottie Rose Growney is tied for second on the team with 37 goals and third with 53 points.
• Growney has scored at least two goals in 13 of 15 games this season.
• Caitlyn Wurzburger leads the team and is second in the ACC with 31 assists. She is second on the UNC team with 56 points.
• Junior defender Emily Nalls tied the school record with 10 ground balls at High Point and earned second-team All-ACC honors in a breakout 2022 season. Nalls leads UNC with 17 caused turnovers and 35 ground balls and is second with 44 draw controls.
• Head coach Jenny Levy has more wins (record of 388-118) and more ACC regular season wins (96-33) than any coach in ACC history.

#1 In The National Polls
• Carolina is ranked No.1 in the ILWomen/IWLCA rankings for the sixth week in a row. UNC took over the top spot 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.

All-ACC Honors
• Four Tar Heels earned first-team All-ACC honors for 2022, all for the second consecutive year: midfielder Ally Mastroianni, goalie Taylor Moreno, attacker Jamie Ortega and defender Emma Trenchard. Moreno, Ortega and Trenchard were named first-team All-ACC for the third year in a row.
• Defender Emily Nalls and attacker Caitlyn Wurzburger grabbed second-team All-ACC accolades.
• Brooklyn Walker-Welch was named to the ACC All-Freshman Team

Tar Heels Streaking at Dorrance
• Carolina has won 30 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 64-6 in its last 70 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).

Ortega Rewriting Record Books
• Attacker Jamie Ortega is rewriting the UNC, ACC and NCAA record books in 2022 and is almost certain to earn All-America honors for a fifth consecutive season.
• Ortega is third in NCAA history with 436 points, nine behind second place and all-time ACC leader Jen Adams of Maryland (1998-2001), who had 445.
• Ortega is Carolina's career leader in goals and points and is third in school history in assists.
• Ortega broke the UNC career points record in her 72nd career game, 17 games (almost a full season) fewer than it took Katie Hoeg to set the record.
• Ortega has 436 points in 84 career games for a UNC-record 5.19 points per game. Katie Hoeg had 370 points in 89 games (4.16 ppg).

• Ortega needs:
- 10 points to become the ACC's career points leader (she has 436; record is 445 by Jen Adams of Maryland)
- 10 points to pass Adams for second place in NCAA history in career points.

• Ortega has scored at least one goal in 49 consecutive games.
• Ortega has scored multiple goals in 75 of 84 career games (89.3 percent).
• Her 318 career goals are third in NCAA history and second in ACC annals. Current BC attacker Charlotte North is first in ACC history with 334 goals.
• Ortega has scored five or more goals 31 times in 84 career games (a whopping 36.9 percent).
• Ortega has tallied at least one point in 78 consecutive games and 83 of 84 in her career.

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 and earned first-team All-ACC honors for the second consecutive year.
• Mastroianni leads Carolina with four game-winning goals.
• She tied her career high with four goals in the April 21 win over Duke that clinched the top seed in the ACC Tournament.
• In the April 14 win at Virginia, she scored a game-high four goals (tying her career high) and had eight draw controls.
• 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 96 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.

Moreno Snaps UNC Career Wins Record
• Graduate student goalie Taylor Moreno has a career record of 63-6 in the cage and became Carolina's all-time leader in goalie wins on Feb. 16 against Furman.
• Moreno eclipsed the wins record of Caylee Waters (2014-17), who had 49 career victories. Waters is a volunteer assistant coach for the 2022 Tar Heels.
• Moreno has started 69 consecutive games in the cage for the Tar Heels, beginning with the final five games of the 2018 season.
• Moreno leads the ACC in save percentage and goals against average.
• Moreno has four games with 10+ saves this season, including a season-high 16 (one off her career high of 17) in the April 2 win over Notre Dame.
• Moreno has 21 career games with 11 or more saves, including five in 2021 and four in 2022.
• Moreno is a three-time ACC Defensive Player of the Week and won IWLCA National Defensive Player of the Week honors on April 5.
• 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) and three-time first-team All-ACC pick.
• 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 Nominee List Includes Four Tar Heels
• Four UNC players, most of any school in the nation, led the 25-player nominee list for the 2022 Tewaaraton Award, the top individual honor in lacrosse, the Tewaaraton Foundation announced in late April.
• Tar Heels Ally Mastroianni (midfield), Taylor Moreno (goalie), Jamie Ortega (attack) and Emma Trenchard (four) all made the list for the second year in a row. Moreno and Ortega both were among the five finalists for the 2021 Tewaaraton Award.
• Seven Tar Heels had made the Tewaaraton watch list: Olivia Dirks, Mastroianni, Moreno, Emily Nalls, Ortega, Trenchard and Caitlyn Wurzburger.

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).

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

Sam Geiersbach

Scottie Rose Growney

Katie Hoeg

Ally Mastroianni

Taylor Moreno

Emily Nalls

Jamie Ortega

Emma Trenchard

Brooklyn Walker-Welch

Caitlyn Wurzburger

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