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MEN’S LACROSSE 2021 GAME NOTES » 1981, 1982, 1986, 1991, 2016 National Champs » 9-Time ACC Tournament Champs » 13-Time ACC Regular Season Champs SCHEDULE/RESULTS THE MATCHUP: May 15, 2021 • Noon NCAA First Round 11-2 OVERALL, 4-2 ACC VENUE 8-1 HOME • 3-1 AWAY • 0-0 NEUTRAL North Carolina (11-2) Dorrance Field, Chapel Hill Head Coach: Joe Breschi (North Carolina, 1990) Record at North Carolina: 135-64 (13th season) ALL-TIME SERIES W #7 Denver Sunday, Feb. 7 Career Record: 227-127 (24th season) First meeting 24-13 Chapel Hill TV: ESPNU TV COVERAGE ESPNU W JACKSONVILLE • Jay Alter Saturday, Feb. 13 Monmouth (8-2) 18-7 Chapel Hill Head Coach: Brian Fisher • Sheehan Stanwick Burch TV: ACCN Record at Monmouth: 48-54 (Eighth season) Career Record: Same W #15 HIGH POINT Tuesday, Feb. 16 at 2 PM 17-15 Chapel Hill TV: ACCN W At #16 Richmond OPENING FACE-OFF BY THE NUMBERS Sunday, Feb. 21 at 2 PM 14-9 Richmond, Va. • The Tar Heels and Hawks kick off the 2021 NCAA » Number of seasons Justin TV: ESPN+ Men’s Lacrosse Tournament Saturday at noon with Anderson has been selected the programs’ first-ever meeting. W #15 HIGH POINT as a Tar Heel team captain. Saturday, Feb. 27 at 1 PM • UNC leads the nation in scoring (17.08 goals per He’s one of five team captains 27-12 Chapel Hill, N.C. game) and ranks second in points per game (26.08). for 2021. TV: ACCNX 3 • Senior Chris Gray is second in the NCAA in points per game (5.92), seventh in goals and eighth in W MERCER » Points Chris Gray needs to Saturday, March 6 at 2 PM assists. 16-8 Chapel Hill • The Tar Heels are first in the ACC and tied for 11th set the school single-season TV: ACCNX nationally in man-down defense (.719). record for points. The current record has stood since 1973 W At Virginia • UNC is third nationally in scoring margin (+6.08). Thursday, March 11 at 7 PM • The Tar Heels are making their 33rd NCAA 5 (Bruce Ledwith, 81 pts) 16-13 Charlottesville, Va. Tournament appearance, their first since 2017. TV: ACCN • Carolina is 33-27 overall in NCAA Tournament » AIR FORCE play heading into the 2021 event. Saves per ACC game by W Saturday, March 20 at noon • Senior Chris Gray was announced on Wednesday freshman goalkeeper Collin 15-5 Chapel Hill, as the ACC Offensive Player of the Year and Joe Krieg. He leads the ACC with TV: ACCNX Breschi as the ACC Coach of the Year. It’s Breschi’s a .541 saves percentage in At Duke third honor in his 13th season as the Tar Heel coach. 14 conference games. L Thursday, April 1 at 7 PM 12-11 Durham, N.C. TV: ACCN OT STARTERS LAST TIME OUT (vs. Duke, May 2) VIRGINIA L Saturday, April 10 at 2 PM ATTACK 18-16 Chapel Hill 4 Chris Gray Sr. 5-7/170 ACC leader in goals (3.2) and points (5.9) per game, 2nd in apg (2.7) TV: ESPNU 8 Nicky Solomon Jr. 5-9/185 20 goals, 19 assists • Ranks 2nd on the team in assists and points 9 Jacob Kelly Jr. 5-9/165 18 goals, 10 assists this season W At Syracuse Saturday, April 17 at 3 PM 21-9 Syracuse, N.Y. MIDFIELD TV: ACCN 3 William Perry Sr. 6-0/185 27 goals, 9 assists • Leads the team with 5 man-up goals 21 Justin Anderson Sr. 6-1/195 21 goals, 6 assists • Scored twice in first 5 minutes at Syracuse W NOTRE DAME 77 Tanner Cook Sr. 6-4/215 22 goals, 9 assists • DNP vs. Duke (lower body injury) Sunday, April 25 at 2 PM 12-10 Chapel Hill DEFENSE TV: ACCN 16 Sean Morris Sr. 6-1/190 Starter in all 13 games • 12 ground balls, 5 caused turnovers 24 Will Bowen Jr. 6-3/220 31 GB, team-high 23 caused turnovers DUKE 28 Cam Macri Sr. 5-9/175 Starter in the past 5 games • 14 GB W Sunday, May 2 at 4 PM 15-12 Chapel Hill GOALKEEPER TV: ACCN 39 Collin Krieg Fr. 5-11/180 11-2 as starting keeper • Career-best 20 saves at UVA • 10.6 GAA FACE-OFF 7 Zac Tucci Jr. 6-1/195 123-213 FO (.579) this season • 39-66 (.591) over last 3 games UNC Athletic Communications Men’s Lacrosse Contact: Dana Gelin [email protected], 919-455-8289 FOLLOW @UNCMensLacrosse #GoHeels #FamilyAcademicsLacrosse GAME 14 » vs MONMOUTH » MAY 15, 2021 FAST FACTS Tar Heel Trends • UNC scored first in five of six ACC games this spring, with Notre Dame the only conference foe University Information to score first on the Tar Heels. Location ..................................................Chapel Hill, N.C. • After losing the face-off battle in the first three ACC games of the year, UNC won it the last three: Undergrad Enrollment ............................................19,117 19-15 at Syracuse, 15-11 vs. Notre Dame and 16-15 vs. Duke. Junior Zac Tucci is 39-65 (.600) Chancellor ........................................ Kevin M. Guskiewicz over the past three games. Nickname ........................................................... Tar Heels • The April 10 18-16 loss to Virginia marked UNC’s highest score in a loss this season and the Mascot .................................................Rameses the Ram most goals the Tar Heels have allowed to an opponent. Prior to that game, no opponent had Colors .........................................Carolina Blue and White scored more than 15 goals against Carolina, which is averaging 17.1 goals per game. Conference ................................................. Atlantic Coast • UNC has not trailed at halftime this season. The Tar Heels were tied at 7-7 in the April 10 home Director of Athletics ............................Bubba Cunningham field loss to Virginia and have led at the break in every other game. Sport Administrators ..............Clint Gwaltney, John Brunner • Connor McCarthy, the graduate transfer from Princeton, has eight goals over the past four Home Facility ..............................................Dorrance Field games. He had scored three goals total over his first eight games as a Tar Heel before breaking Capacity/Surface ............................................5,025/Grass out for back-to-back hat tricks against Virginia and Syracuse, then a goal each against Notre Secondary Facility .....................................Kenan Stadium Dame and Duke. Capacity/Surface .......................... 50,500/Synthetic Grass • The win at Syracuse marked the third time this season that UNC has scored 20 or more goals but the first time since 1994 the Tar Heels have done so vs. an ACC team. The last time UNC scored 20 or more goals three times in a season was 1996. Program History First season ...............................................................1949 All-time Record .................................................. 520-312-2 Noting the Tar Heels • Carolina’s two losses this season are by a combined three goals. All-time ACC Record............................................... 85-107 • UNC has the best clearing percentage among ACC teams – .880 – and ranks 15th in the NCAA. NCAA Championships ......................................................5 The Tar Heels were 106-115 in clears in their six ACC games. NCAA Tournament Appearances ....................................32 • The Tar Heels lead the turnovers per game, committing an average of 12.23 (compared with NCAA Tournament Record ...................................... 33-27 15.08 for opponents). ACC Tournament Championships .......................... 12-0-1 • The Tar Heels are tied for 11th nationally in man-down defense, having allowed just 16 extra- 1981, 1982, 1985^, 1988, 1989, 1990, man goals in 57 opponent opportunities (.281). 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2013, 2017 • UNC leads the ACC in man-down goals this spring. The Tar Heels have scored six (with Chris ACC Regular Season Championships ............................9 Gray accounting for three). No other conference team has scored one. 1991, 1992, 1994*, 1996*, 2003^, 2010*, • Fifth-year senior Justin Anderson is coming off a season high in goals with three vs. Duke. 2013^, 2016*, 2021* • UNC held its opponent scoreless in a quarter in three games in a row (Q2 vs. Air Force, Q4 vs. *Co-Champions, ^Tri-Champs Duke, Q2 vs. Virginia). The Tar Heel defense didn’t have a scoreless quarter against Syracuse or Notre Dame, but held each to a single goal in the first quarter. The Tar Heels then held Duke Athletic Communications scoreless in the second quarter. Men’s Lacrosse Contact ..................................Dana Gelin • Air Force (March 20th) was the Tar Heels’ sixth Southern Conference opponent of 2021 and the E-Mail ......................................................dgelin@unc.edu final non-conference opponent of the regular season. Cell Phone ................................................(919) 455-8289 • Chris Gray’s six assists vs. Air Force marked the first time since 2013 a Tar Heel has had six or more assists in a game. Marcus Holman had six on two occasions in 2013. The last time a player Mailing Address ..........................................P.O. Box 2126 had more was in 1997 (Merrill Turnbull with 7). Gray equaled that feat at Syracuse, when he had ........................................................Chapel Hill, NC 27515 two goals and six assists. Website ........................................................GoHeels.com • Gray was announced on March 24 as one of 52 recipients of the ACC’s Weaver-James-Corrigan Twitter/Instagram/Facebook ...............@UNCMensLacrosse Postgraduate Scholarship Awards for 2021. A management and society major, Gray was recently admitted to UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and plans to begin working toward his MBA there next year. • Eight Tar Heels were part of the Inside Lacrosse Midseason All-America teams announced on April 8. Gray, Tanner Cook and Will Bowen were named to the first team; Connor Maher and William Perry to the third team; and Justin Anderson, Collin Krieg and Matt Wright to the honorable mention list. • Two Tar Heels were selected in the Premier Lacrosse League Draft on April 26.