UNC Hosts Duke Thursday For Carlyle Cup Point & Wake Sunday On National TV
Sept. 23, 2009
This Week's Tar Heel Women's Soccer Games
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 7 p.m.
Sunday, September 27, 2009, 5 p.m.
Looking Ahead To This Weekend
Highlighting Head Coach Anson Dorrance
Scouting The Tar Heels
2009 Statistical Leaders
2009 Individual Accolades
Carolina's Probable Starters & Likely Top Reserves For Duke and Wake Forest Games (Based on Playing Time Earned This Season To Date) CAROLINA SOCCER NOTES THIS WEEK
In The National Statistics
•Sophomore forward Courtney Jones is tied this week in NCAA Division I statistics for 19th place in assists per game with 0.71 per contest. Jones has five assists in seven games. Sophomore forward Brittani Bartok is tied for 25th in assists per game at 0.67. Bartok has four assists in six games.
•Senior goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris is fourth in the nation this week in goals against average at 0.130. Harris has played in seven games, allowing only one goal in 693 minutes. Harris is fifth in NCAA Division I in save percentage having made 12 saves while allowing only one goal in 693 minutes for a percentage of .923.
•North Carolina is tied for 23rd in scoring offense in NCAA Division I statistics this week with an average of 2.75 goals per game. UNC has scored 22 goals in eight games so far.
•The Tar Heels are currently ranked sixth in goals against average as a team at 0.243. UNC has allowed two goals in 740 minutes so far this season.
•Carolina is tied for second in shutout percentage amongst NCAA Division I teams. UNC has seven shutouts in eight games for a percentage of .875.
•The Tar Heels are tied for 10th this week in winning percentage amongst NCAA Division I schools at .938 with a 7-0-1 record.
Series Meetings
•Carolina and Duke will be meeting for the 35th time in history in Thursday's match. Carolina leads the all-time series against the Blue Devils 31-2-1. That includes a 12-2-1 mark against the Blue Devils at Fetzer Field. Carolina has won four in a row against the Blue Devils including a 3-0 win in Durham, N.C. last season. Duke is 1-2-1 in the last four games it has played against the Tar Heels at Fetzer Field.
•Sunday's match with Wake Forest will be the 24th meeting in the series between the two teams. UNC leads the all-time series with the Demon Deacons 22-1. That includes a 13-0 ledger at Fetzer Field. UNC has won 12 matches in a row against the Demon Deacons. The Tar Heels defeated the Deacons 4-2 in Winston-Salem, N.C. last season.
General Notes
•Carolina has won the outright championship of the first two tournaments it has played in this year and it shared the title in the third tournament in which it played. The Tar Heels won the title of the 2009 Carolina Nike Classic on August 28 and 30 with wins over UCF 4-0 and UNC Greensboro 1-0. Carolina finished 2-0 in the tournament while UCF and UNC Greensboro were both 1-1 and Duke 0-2. On September 4 and 6, Carolina claimed the championship of the Inn at St. Mary's Soccer Classic in Notre Dame, Ind. by beating Notre Dame 6-0 and Marquette 1-0. Carolina finished the tournament 2-0 while Notre Dame and Marquette were both 1-1 and Milwaukee was 0-2. On September 16 and 18, Carolina played in the Duke Nike Classic, sharing the title with the host Blue Devils. Both teams went 1-0-1 in the tournament while LSU and Auburn were both 0-1-1. UNC beat LSU 1-0 and tied Auburn 0-0 in the Duke Nike Classic.
•Carolina's starting defense of senior goalkeeper Ashlyn Harris, senior defenders Whitney Engen and Kristi Eveland and junior defender Rachel Givan has keyed an incredible effort which has resulted in seven straight shutouts for the Tar Heels. UNC has not allowed a goal in 653 minutes and 21 seconds since UCLA's Sydney Leroux tallied against Carolina at the 86:39 mark of a 7-2 Tar Heel win on August 22, 2009.
•Carolina's vaunted defense of Ashlyn Harris, Kristi Eveland, Whitney Engen and Rachel Givan has now allowed only four goals over the last 1,693 minutes and 15 seconds of action dating back to last season's against Florida State on October 30, 2008.
•Dating back to a 1-0 win over Miami on November 2, 2008 at Fetzer Field, UNC has now posted shutouts in 15 of its last 18 games.
•Carolina is now on a 32-match unbeaten streak, having gone 29-0-3 since falling 1-0 to Notre Dame on September 5, 2008 at Fetzer Field.
•Carolina's senior class of Ashley Moore, Tobin Heath, Ashlyn Harris, Sterling Smith, Nikki Washington, Caroline Boneparth, Whitney Engen, Casey Nogueira and Kristi Eveland has the best overall record of any senior class in the country according to research done by College Soccer 360.com. UNC heads into Thursday's game against Duke with both the most wins of any senior class (78) and the best winning percentage (.909). UNC is 78-6-4 over the last four years. Based on wins, it is followed in order by Notre Dame with 75, UCLA with 69, Portland with 63, Stanford with 61 and Florida State with 60.
•UNC enters the Duke match with a record of 7-0-1. The last time UNC was undefeated through its first eight games was 2005 when the Tar Heels won their first 13 in a row before losing at home to Duke.
•At 7-0-1, Carolina completed its non-conference regular-season schedule without a loss for the first time since 2005.
•Carolina has scored in the opening minute of two matches this year. Tobin Heath scored 41 seconds into a 7-2 win over UCLA on August 22, 2009 and Courtney Jones scored 23 seconds into a 6-0 win over Notre Dame on September 4, 2009.
•Senior defender Kristi Eveland was tapped in August as one of 30 female candidates for the 2009 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. The 30 semifinalists will be cut down to a list of 10 finalists for the prestigious award on October 5. Carolina has had a finalist for the award in each of its first two years as Jessica Maxwell was so honored in 2007 and Yael Averbuch was so tapped in 2008. Eveland is one of only three ACC players to make the 30 semifinalists.
•The seven goals scored by the Tar Heels against the UCLA on August 22, 2009 were the most UNC has scored in a match since November 10, 2006 when the Tar Heels defeated UNC Asheville 7-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Fetzer Field. UNC improved to 8-0 against UCLA all-time. The seven goals were the most scored by the Tar Heels against the Bruins, exceeding the five they scored in a 5-2 win over UCLA on September 19, 2003 in Durham, N.C. The five-goal margin of victory was also the biggest for UNC in the series, exceeding the four-goal cushion in a 4-0 win over the Bruins on October 1, 1999 in San Diego, Calif.
•Carolina's six-goal scoring outburst in a 6-0 win at Notre Dame on September 4 marked the most goals UNC has scored against the Fighting Irish in the 17-game history of the series. UNC, which now leads the all-time series 11-4-2, scored five against the Fighting Irish in wins over ND on September 13, 1998 (5-1) and on November 20, 1994 (5-0). The six-goal margin of victory was also UNC's largest over Notre Dame, exceeding the five-goal separation in the aforementioned 1994 game for the national championship.
•With the win over UCLA on August 22, UNC won its second straight season opener after having lost two in a row in 2006 and 2007. The Tar Heels are 27-3-1 all-time in season openers with losses in 1983, 2006 and 2007 and a tie in 1985.
•The seven goals scored by UNC against UCLA on August 22, 2009 were the most scored in a season opener by the Tar Heels since August 26, 2005 when UNC opened the season with a 7-1 win over Tennessee in Wichita, Kan. They were the most goals scored by the Tar Heels in a home opener since September 6, 2002 when the Tar Heels defeated Guilford 9-0.
•UNC heads into its match with Duke with a record of 680-33-22 overall, a winning percentage of .940.
•The Tar Heels have outscored their opponents 2,973 to 349 in 735 games since the origin of the program in 1979. That is a scoring margin of 2,624 goals.
•With 111 career points, Casey Nogueira is now 20th in Tar Heel history, one point behind Wendy Gebauer (1985-88) who had 112 points.
•Casey Nogueira has now scored 45 goals in her career. She is 16th in career goals, one goal behind Carrie Serwetnyk (1984-87) who had 46.
•UNC's average record per year in its first 30 years of soccer was 22.43 wins per year, 1.1 losses per year and 0.7 ties per year heading into the 2009 campaign.
•UNC is 3-0 in one-goal games in 2009 and 6-0-1 in shutout games in 2009.
•Carolina was the preseason pick to win the 2009 ACC regular-season championship, receiving all 11 first-place votes in the poll. The remainder of the preseason poll had Florida State at No. 2, Boston College at No. 3, Virginia at No. 4, Duke at No. 5, Wake Forest at No. 6, Virginia Tech at No. 7, Maryland at No. 8, Miami at No. 9, Clemson at No. 10 and NC State at No. 11.
•UNC has won 20 or more matches in a season in 19 of the past 20 seasons. In three of the six non-20 win seasons in Carolina history UNC still won the NCAA championship. Carolina won NCAA championships in 1982, 1983 and 1988 despite not winning 20 games in those seasons.
•Of the 31 players on the Tar Heel roster in 2009, nine are seniors. This group formed the core of a group which won a national championship in its freshman year in 2006 and then came back to win another national title in 2008.
•The Tar Heels returned players with starting experience at all 11 positions on the field in 2009. After the Tar Heels suffered a devastating blow when senior midfielder Nikki Washington tore her right ACL in Carolina's match against LSU on September 18, a spot has opened up in the midfield for a player who has not seen significant starting time prior to this year.
•Starters returning from 2008 on defense were Whitney Engen, Kristi Eveland and Rachel Givan. Ashlyn Harris, who alternated starts a year ago with Anna Rodenbough, returned as the full-time starter in the goal. Harris will miss Carolina's games against Duke and Wake Forest while training with the U.S. National Team in Carson, Calif. Freshman Hannah Daly will earn the starts against the Blue Devils and the Demon Deacons.
•Midfielders Ali Hawkins and Tobin Heath returned but Yael Averbuch and Allie Long did graduate off last year's squad. This season, Nikki Washington and Meghan Klingenberg, both players with significant starting experience in their careers, replaced Averbuch and Long. The duo missed the last six games of the 2008 season while playing in the U20 World Cup in Chile on the winning American side. With Washington now out of the lineup, Amber Brooks has stepped in to take that spot on the field. Tobin Heath will miss the games against Duke and Wake Forest while training with the U.S. National Team in Carson, Calif. UNC will make a game-time decision on her replacement in the starting lineup for the next two games.
•UNC's starting forward crew from 2008 of Casey Nogueira, Jessica McDonald and Courtney Jones also returned for the Tar Heels.
•Senior forward Casey Nogueira, senior midfielder Tobin Heath and senior defender Whitney Engen were named to the Watch List for the 2009 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy. Nogueira was one of three finalists for the award last year. Heath was a semifinalist for the award in 2008.
•UNC has had 10 selections for the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America first, second and third teams in the past four seasons. Those 10 selections came on only 12 total nominations for the Academic All-America teams by the UNC Athletic Communications Office during those four seasons. Carolina also had seven women's soccer players named Academic All-Americas from 1983-2001, giving the program 17 selections since the program began in 1983.
•Since a 1-0 loss at Miami on September 30, 2007, the Tar Heels have gone 17-0-1 in ACC regular-season matches. UNC had a 16-match ACC winning streak halted October 30, 2008 when the Tar Heels played to a 2-2 tie with Florida State at Fetzer Field.
•Carolina has gone 32-1-1 in ACC regular-season matches since a 2-1 loss to Duke at Fetzer Field on October 9, 2005.
•Casey Nogueira scored 25 goals in the 2008 season, eight more than she scored in her first two seasons combined as a Tar Heel. The 25 goals equaled the eighth most in a season in Carolina history. The last time a Tar Heel had as many as 25 goals in a season was 2000 when Meredith Florance scored 26.
•Carolina's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Tournament ensured that it played in The Big Dance for the 27th successive year. Only North Carolina and Connecticut had made the NCAA Tournament field in each of the first 26 years of tournament play. However, the Huskies did not make the tournament field last season so Carolina now has the distinction of being the only team to make the NCAA field in all 27 years.
•UNC has an all-time record of 26-5-21 all-time in overtime games in its history. Carolina was 1-0-2 in overtime in 2008 and is 0-0-1 in 2009. Carolina lost only two overtime games in the first 21 years of its history from 1979 through 1999. UNC's last overtime loss came in the season opener at Texas A&M 1-0 in 1996.
•Nineteen current and former UNC players are members of different full and youth U.S. National Soccer Teams in 2009 as part of their player pools. |
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