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Contact: Dave Lohse • P: 919-962-7257 • C: 919-641-4128 • [email protected] • www.GoHeels.com Tar Heels Advance To NCAA Champion- This Week’s Carolina Men’s 2016 GAME SCHEDULE & RESULTS ship Game To Face #1 Terrapins Lacrosse Game 2016 RECORD: (11-6, ACC 3-1) NCAA Tournament Date Opponent Game Time/Score H/A 2016 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA 2/6 MICHIGAN W 20-10 Home MEN’S LACROSSE GAME NOTES Championship Game 2/13 FURMAN W 14-6 Home Game 18: North Carolina Tar Heels North Carolina vs. Maryland 2/20 HOFSTRA L 5-10 Home (11-6 overall, 3-1 ACC, NCAA Tournament Monday, May 30, 2016 2/28 at #8 Johns Hopkins (ESPNU) Unseeded, Ranked #12 USILA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Poll, Ranked #14 1 p.m. EDT W 15-11 Away Cascade/Maverik Media Poll) vs. Maryland Lincoln Financial Field 3/5 #1 DENVER (ESPN3) L 12-13 OT Home Terrapins (17-2 overall, NCAA Tournament Philadelphia, Pa. 3/12 at Massachusetts L 9-14 Away #1 Seed, Ranked #1 USILA Division I Men’s ESPN2/WatchESPN (Eamon 3/14 at Manhattan W 18-2 Away Lacrosse Coaches Poll, Ranked #1 Cascade/ McAnaney, Play by Play; Quint Kessenich, 3/19 #19 RICHMOND (ESPN3) W 15-6 Home Maverik Media Poll) 3/26 at #6 Maryland (ESPNU) L 8-11 Away Monday, May 30, 2016 Analyst; Paul Carcaterra, Sideline 4/1 at #8 Duke (ESPNU) W 17-16 OT Away 1 p.m. EDT Reporter) 4/10 #20 VIRGINIA (ESPNU) W 16-8 Home Lincoln Financial Field Records: UNC 11-6; Maryland 17-2 Philadelphia, Pa. 4/16 at #10 Syracuse (ESPNU) L 7-13 Away KEY LINKS FOR MONDAY’S GAME Rankings: UNC - #12 USILA/Nike Division 4/23 #1 NOTRE DAME (ESPNU) Live Stats: GoHeels.com I Men’s Lacrosse Coaches Poll, #14 W 17-15 Home Television Information: ESPN2/Wat- Cascade/Maverik Media Poll; Maryland - ACC Championship (Kennesaw, Ga.) chESPN; Eamon McAnaney, Play by Play; #1 USILA/Nike Division I Men’s Lacrosse 4/29 vs. #8 Syracuse (ESPNU) L 7-10 Neutral Quint Kessenich, Analyst; Paul Carcaterra, Coaches Poll, #1 Cascade/Maverik Media NCAA Championship 1st Rd. (Milwaukee, Wis.) Sideline Reporter 5/14 at #6 Marquette (ESPNU) W 10-9 Away Webcast Information: WatchESPN Poll NCAA Championship QF (Columbus, Ohio) 5/22 vs. #3 Notre Dame (ESPN2) W 13-9 Neutral TAR HEELS FACE TERRAPINS MONDAY IN NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: The University play announcer for ESPN2 while Quint Kes- NCAA Championship SF (Philadelphia, Pa.) of North Carolina men’s lacrosse team, under senich is the analyst and Paul Carcaterra is the 5/28 vs. #7 Loyola (ESPN2) W 18-13 Neutral the direction of eighth-year head coach Joe sideline reporter. NCAA Championship Final (Philadelphia, Pa.) Breschi, returns to action this Monday when it A live stats link will be available on Go- 5/28 vs. #1 Maryland (ESPN2) 1 p.m. Neutral plays the Big Ten Conference champion Mary- Heels.com as well as a link to the WatchESPN Follow the Tar Heels: land Terrapins at 1 p.m. EDT in the 2016 NCAA telecast. Live Stats: http://www.goheels.com Tournament championship game. Twitter: https://twitter.com/uncmenslacrosse The match will be played at Lincoln Financial CAROLINA VERSUS MARYLAND THE Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ Field in Philadelphia, Pa. SERIES: North Carolina and Maryland will be uncmenslacrosse The Tar Heels come into the game with an meeting for the 67th time in history on Monday. 11-6 record and a 3-1 mark in the ACC. The The Terrapins lead the all-time series 43-24. Instagram: https://instagram.com/ last time out Carolina defeated seventh-seeded Maryland has won three games in a row in the uncmenslacrosse/ Loyola 18-13 in the NCAA Tournament semifi- series against the Tar Heels, including an 11-8 Media Guide: http://www.goheels.com nals in Philadelphia, Pa. on May 28. regular-season victory in College Park, Md. on Purchase Tickets: GoHeels.com Ticket Center With the win over the Greyhounds, the Tar March 26 of this year. Heels return to the NCAA championship game Over the past 12 games in the series, each for the first time since 1993 when it finished as team has won six times. national runner-up, losing to Syracuse 13-12. Monday’s game will mark the fourth time the This will mark Carolina’s sixth all-time appear- two teams have played each other in the NCAA ance in the NCAA championship game - 1981, Tournament. Carolina beat the Terps in the 1982, 1986, 1991, 1993, 2016. 1986 NCAA quarterfinals. Maryland beat Caro- The Tar Heels were ranked 12th in the final lina in the 2011 NCAA 1st round and the 2015 the Final 4. Members of the 1991 NCAA cham- USILA coaches poll of the 2016 season and NCAA quarterfinals. pionship team will be recognized on the field at 14th the final regular season Cascade/Maverik halftime of Monday’s NCAA championship game media poll of the 2016 campaign. CAROLINA’S ALL-AMERICAS: Six Tar (1 p.m., Philadelphia, Pa., ESPN2). The Terrapins are 17-2 so far this campaign Heels were named Saturday morning to the The 1991 team had reunion activities sched- and they won the Big 10 regular season and 2016 U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Coaches uled in Philadelphia all weekend beginning with tournament championships. The Terrapins were Association All-America Team. The selections their attendance at the NCAA women’s semifinal ranked first in the final USILA coaches poll of were as follows: game Friday night at PPL Park where Carolina the 2016 season and first in the final regular Second Team - Jake Matthai, Senior, Short beat Penn State 12-11. The 1991 team mem- season Cascade/Maverik media poll of the 2016 Stick Defensive Midfielder bers were also in the stands for the Saturday campaign. Maryland advanced to the NCAA Third Team - Austin Pifani, Junior, Close men’s semifinals versus Loyola, an 18-13 Tar championship game after beating fifth-seeded Defenseman Heel victory. Brown Saturday in a wild semifinal match, Honorable Mention - Steve Pontrello, Senior, The 1991 team finished 16-0 and won Caro- prevailing 15-14 in overtime. The Terps are in Attackman; Patrick Kelly, Senior, Midfielder; lina’s fourth NCAA championship in the sport. the championship match for the second straight Michael Tagliaferri, Senior, Midfielder; Stephen The team was coached by Dave Klarmann year and fourth time since 2011. Kelly, Junior, Face-Off. and won the championship by beating Loyola Carolina is unseeded in this year’s tourna- 11-9 in the quarterfinals, Syracuse 19-13 in the ment field while the Terrapins came in as the HONORING THE 1991 NATIONAL CHAMPI- semifinals and Towson 18-13 in the champion- tourney’s #1 seed. ONS: Carolina’s return to the NCAA champon- ship game. Monday’s game will televised nationally live ship game in 2016 is especially sweet as it on ESPN2 and will also be available on Watch comes on a weekend when the Tar Heels’ 1991 LAST TIME OUT FOR CAROLINA: Chris ESPN. Eamon McAnaney will be the play-by- NCAA championship team will be honored at Cloutier scored an NCAA championship week- end record nine goals to lead North Carolina’s unseeded men’s la- Joe Breschi At A Glance All-Time • Full Name: Joseph Carl crosse team to an 18- Breschi 13 win over seventh- NCAA Tournament • Birthdate: April 9, 1968 seeded Loyola in the Appearances in Baltimore, Md. national semifinals Johns Hopkins 44 • Hometown: Baltimore, at Lincoln Financial Maryland 39 Md. Field on a hot Sat- Virginia 37 • High School: Loyola- urday afternoon on Syracuse 35 Blakefield School May 28. UNC will face North Carolina 31 • Graduated College: either Maryland in the Cornell 27 from the University of championship game Navy 27 North Carolina in 1990 on Monday afternoon with a Bachelor of Arts at 1 p.m. The top- Loyola 21 degree in communications seeded Terrapins beat Notre Dame 21 • Family: Married to fifth-seeded Bears Princeton 20 the former Julie Riccardelli of Roseland, N.J. 15-14 in the second Duke 20 Julie earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in semifinal game Sat- Massachusetts 19 psychology from Denison University in 1989 Patrick Kelly is fifth on the Tar Heel team in urday. Hofstra 17 and a M.Ed. degree in counseling psychology Cloutier’s nine goals scored with 26. from Springfield College in 1992. Army 16 goals set a career Brown 14 • Children: The late Michael Robert Breschi, high for the Kitchener, born September 16, 2000; Samantha Grace Ontario native and Towson 13 trello had two goals and three assists, Timmy Breschi, born October 17, 2001; Abigail established a UNC Penn 12 Kelly had two goals, Stephen Kelly had two as- Christine Breschi, born June 5, 2003; Lucy school record for Georgetown 11 sists and won 19 face-offs and Luke Goldstock Michaela Breschi, born September 1, 2005; goals in a match. The had two goals and one assist. Patrick Kelly Emily Valerie Breschi, born January 12, 2007. nine goals are the most in any NCAA champi- had a goal and an assist, Brian Cannon and • Bob and Tish Breschi of Baltimore, Parents: onship weekend game in history and tied the William McBride scored single goals and Shane Md. overall NCAA Tournament record for goals in a Simpson and Michael Tagliaferri had assists. • Lacrosse Career: Two-time All-Atlantic Goldstock’s two goals and an assist marked his Coast Conference selection as a defenseman game in any round of the tournament.