Up Next for the Tar Heels The top-ranked North Carolina field hockey team continues NCAA 2015 Schedule and Results Championship play on Friday, taking on Duke at 2:45 p.m. in the sec- Date Opponent Site Time/Result ond of two national semifinal games at Phyllis Ocker Field in Ann Arbor, ACC-Big Ten Challenge Mich. Top-seeded Syracuse and two-time defending NCAA Champion 8/29 At Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. W, 2-1 UConn meet at noon Friday on the other side of the bracket. 8/30 Iowa Ann Arbor, Mich. W, 2-1 UNC (20-2) reached its seventh consecutive final four and 20th in pro- 9/4 At Princeton Princeton, N.J. W, 5-2 gram history by beating No. 15 Boston University 4-2 in the first round of 9/6 At Drexel Philadelphia, Pa. W, 3-0 NCAA play and No. 10 Michigan 1-0 in the second round. Both of those games were played at Francis E. Henry Stadium in Chapel Hill. 9/12 At Syracuse * Syracuse, N.Y. L, 4-2 Carolina is the No. 2 overall seed in the tournament. The Tar Heels are 9/13 At Albany Albany, N.Y. W, 4-2 making their 32nd appearance in the NCAA field. 9/18 Louisville * Chapel Hill W, 5-0 9/20 Miami (Ohio) Chapel Hill W, 3-0 Fast Facts on UNC 9/25 Boston Coll. * Chapel Hill W, 5-0 2015 record: 20-2 (4-2 ACC) 9/27 At App. St. Boone, N.C. W, 8-2 Current NFHCA poll ranking: No. 1 (Nov. 9 poll, last of 2015) 10/2 At Virginia * Charlottesville, Va. W, 8-3 Head Coach: Karen Shelton (35th season at UNC) 10/9 Longwood Chapel Hill W, 8-1 Current record at UNC and overall: 607-152-9 10/16 Duke Chapel Hill W, 2-1 Staff: Grant Fulton, Associate Head Coach; Laree Beans, Assistant 10/18 At VCU Richmond, Va. W, 5-1 Coach 10/23 At Wake Forest * Winston-Salem, N.C. L, 3-2 Team Captains: Emily Wold, Captain; Julia Young, Vice-Captain 2014 Finish: ACC Semifinalist, NCAA Semifinalist 10/29 Liberty Chapel Hill W, 7-1 ACC Titles: 19 (1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 11/1 Old Dominion Chapel Hill W, 5-1 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2004, 2007, 2011, 2012, 2015) NCAA Titles: Six (1989, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2009) 2015 Atlantic Coast Conference Championship NCAA Tournament Appearances: 32 (including 2015) Nov. 5 Louisville Charlottesville, Va. W, 2-1 Conference: Atlantic Coast Nov. 6 Boston College Charlottesville, Va. W, 3-2 Home Stadium: Francis E. Henry Stadium (Capacity 1,086) Nov. 8 Syracuse Charlottesville, Va. W, 2-1 OT Quick Hits 2015 NCAA Division I Championship • North Carolina is 56-25 all-time in NCAA Tournament play. Nov. 14 Boston Univ. Chapel Hill, N.C. W, 4-2 • UNC is playing in its seventh consecutive final four, eighth in the past Nov. 15 Michigan Chapel Hill, N.C. W, 1-0 nine years, and 20th in school history. • With 32 NCAA Tournament appearances, UNC has more than any Nov. 20 Duke Ann Arbor, Mich. 2:45 p.m. other Division I program. Friday’s game will be Carolina’s 82nd NCAA Nov. 22 Championship Ann Arbor, Mich. TBA Tournament game, also a record. • Seventeen of UNC’s 22 games this season have been against ranked * – Atlantic Coast Conference games teams. • The ACC Championship game win over Syracuse has been UNC’s at Princeton (0 for 6), at Drexel (0 for 8), vs. Louisville in the ACC first only overtime game of the season. round (0 for 6) and vs. Syracuse in the ACC final (0 for 3). • Emily Wold is the 13th player in ACC history to earn first-team all- • Sophomore Gab Major leads UNC in gamewinning goals with five, conference honors four times. She was also the ACC Tournament MVP. including two in the ACC Tournament. • UNC has trailed just three times this season: in losses at Syracuse and • Freshman Ashley Hoffman has scored three goals in the first two Wake Forest and for 21 minutes in the first half against Old Dominion, NCAA Tournament games. She came into the postseason with a season after the Lady Monarchs scored the first goal of the game. Carolina came total of four. back to win 5-1. • UNC moved up to No. 1 in the final coaches’ poll of the season. The • UNC has drawn 149 corners this season and has scored on 28 of them. Tar Heels had been either No. 2 or No. 3 throughout the season. The Tar Heels have scored on at least one corner in all but four games: • Karen Shelton earned the 600th win of her career on Oct. 18 at VCU. She is in her 35th year as a head coach, all at UNC, and is the second Di- UNC Athletic Communications vision I coach to reach that mark. The first was UConn’s Nancy Stevens, Field Hockey Contact: Dana Gelin earlier this season. [email protected] • 919-455-8289 • On Nov. 12, Shelton was inducted into the Philadelphia Sports Hall of Fame. She flew to Philadelphia that morning, missing one practice, but was back with the team the following morning in scored again in the 27th minute, on their first pen- preparation for the start of the NCAA Tournament. alty corner of the game. Freshman Ashley Hoffman 2015 NFCHA Poll • Carolina has outscored its opponents 88-29 this sent the ball into a crowd near the goal and senior Nov. 10 – Final poll season. Casey Di Nardo was able to get a stick on it and First-place votes in parentheses • UNC ranks third in the NCAA in scoring mar- direct it in for a 2-0 lead. gin, outscoring opponents by an average of 2.67 Duke closed the gap just before halftime when 1. North Carolina (9) goals per game. The Tar Heels are also third in freshman Rose Tynan ripped a shot from the top of 2. Syracuse (21) scoring average (3.98), eighth in assists per game the circle past UNC goalkeeper Shannon Johnson (2.86), and 24th in penalty corners per game (6.77). and into the right side of the cage to make the score 3. Connecticut (11) • In the NCAA individual rankings, Major is 19th 2-1 at halftime. 4. Virginia (1) in goals per game (.77), Wold is tied for 37th in “We wanted to have a quick start – I think getting 5. Maryland assists per game (.50), and Shannon Johnson is an early goal was important for us and also get- 6. Duke fourth in goalie winning percentage (.909) and ting that second one, of course,” Shelton said. “We eighth in goals against average (1.20). weren’t thrilled with the two big turnovers that led 7. Wake Forest • The three Tar Heel seniors – Emily Wold, Casey to their goal. I think we made some adjustments in 8. Albany Di Nardo and Nina Notman – all rank among the the second half and we were able to move the ball 9. Boston College team’s top four in goals. a little bit better, a little more cleanly. Duke kept 10. Michigan • With 11 assists this season, Wold now has a ca- coming at us. They’re a tough team and a formi- 11. Louisville reer total of 52, which is third in UNC history. dable opponent.” Neither team was able to get a goal in the second 12. Delaware UNC’s Statistical Leaders half, despite opportunities. UNC had nine of its 15 13. Stanford Goals: Gab Major 17, Emily Wold 14, Nina Not- shots in the second half and Duke got off three, to 14. Liberty man 14, Casey Di Nardo 11, Malin Evert 9 no avail. With 2:48 to play in the game, Duke coach 15. Boston University Pam Bustin called a timeout and pulled Blazing in Assists: Wold 11, Julia Young 10, Major 9, Eva 16. Princeton van’t Hoog 7, Notman 6 favor of an extra field player, but the Blue Devils Points: Major 43, Wold 39, Notman 34, Di Nar- were unable to mount a threat. 17. Maine do 24, Evert 23 Blazing finished with six saves for the Blue Dev- 18. James Madison ils. Johnson – whose older sister, Aileen, started in 19. Northwestern UNC vs. Duke the midfield for Duke – made three saves in earn- 20. Massachusetts ing her 14th win of the year. • UNC leads the series with Duke 73-11-1. The “It’s a learning opportunity for our team to have Tar Heels won this season’s first meeting 2-1 on to grind out a win at home,” Shelton said. “I said 2015 Honors and Awards Oct. 16 in Chapel Hill. we had to find a way to win and we did.” • This game again brings together sisters Aileen No. 3 North Carolina 2, No. 4 Duke 1 Preseason All-ACC (senior midfielder at Duke) and Shannon (junior Scoring: UNC – Malin Evert, 5:31; UNC – Casey Emily Wold goalkeeper at UNC) Johnson. Since Shannon’s Di Nardo (Ashley Hoffman), 26:58; Duke – Rose Julia Young arrival in Chapel Hill in the fall of 2013, UNC Tynan, 33:24 and Duke have met five previous times. The Tar Shots: UNC 15 (6/9), Duke 9 (6/3) ACC Player of the Week Penalty corners: UNC 4 (1/3), Duke 5 (4-1) Heels have won four of those contest, including an Defensive: Julia Young (Sept. 23) Goalkeeper saves: UNC 3 (Shannon Johnson, NCAA Tournament second round game in 2014.