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1 Contact: Dave Lohse P: Tar Heels Close Out Regular Season Saturday Against Notre Dame 2018 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CARO- LINA MEN S LACROSSE GAME NOTES Game 14: North Carolina Tar Heels (6-7, ACC 0-3, receiving votes in USILA Division I Men s Lacrosse Coaches Poll) vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (6-4, ACC 1-2, ranked #14 in USILA Division I Men s Lacrosse Coaches Poll, ranked #15 in Inside Lacrosse Maverik Media Poll ) Saturday, April 21, p.m. EDT Kenan Stadium University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, N.C. KEY LINKS FOR SATURDAY S GAME UNC Media Guide: 2018 Media Guide Player Roster & Coaches Bios: Go- Heels.com Roster Page 2018 Statistics: Individual Stats UNC Lacrosse Social Media Links: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram Live Stats: GoHeels.com TV: ESPNU This Week s Carolina Men s Lacrosse Game North Carolina Tar Heels vs. Notre Dame Fighting Irish Saturday, April 21, 12 p.m. EDT Kenan Stadium Chapel Hill, N.C. TV: ESPNU/WatchESPN TV Talent: Anish Shroff (play by play), Quint Kessenich (analyst), Paul Carcaterra (analyst) Live Stats: GoHeels.com Records: UNC 6-7, ACC 0-3; Notre Dame 6-4, ACC 1-2 Rankings: UNC - receiving votes USILA Division I Coaches Poll Notre Dame - #14 USILA Division I Coaches Poll; #15 Inside Lacrosse/Maverik Division I Media Poll Game Officials: Mikko Red Arrow, referee; Michael Hinfey, umpire; Jason Parks, field judge TAR HEELS CLOSE OUT REGULAR SEASON LOOKING TO BREAK INTO ACC WIN COLUMN SATURDAY: Head coach Joe Breschi and his 2018 University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team return to action on Saturday afternoon when the Tar Heels meet the 14th-ranked University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish at 12 p.m. EDT at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill, N.C. The game will be the fourth ACC contest for Coach Joe Breschi s youthful and banged up Tar Heel team which is looking to end a seven-game losing streak and in the process keep alive its hopes for a berth in the 2018 ACC Tournament and a bid to the 2018 NCAA Tournament. The Tar Heels turned in three of their top four efforts of the campaign in their last three games but they have fallen just short of gaining an ACC win to date. On Friday, March 30, the Tar Heels dropped an heartbreaker at fifth-ranked Duke followed up by a close lose to Virginia in Chapel Hill on April 7. Last Saturday, the Tar Heels fell in overtime at the Carrier Dome to Syracuse which wrapped up a perfect 4-0 ACC season in the process. The Tar Heels face the Fighting Irish Saturday seeking their first win since beating St. John s 9-8 on March 3 at Kenan Stadium. UNC is receiving votes this week in the U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association coaches poll. Notre Dame will play its first game in 10 days this Saturday when the Fighting Irish meet up against the Tar Heels in Chapel Hill. The Fighting Irish have been idle since April 11 when it scored two goals in the final minute of the game to rally past Marquette 7-6 in Milwaukee. The Fighting Irish is 6-4 overall and it has a 1-2 league mark. Satruday s game will determine which four teams advance to the 2018 ACC Tournament Syracuse is assured of the #1 seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament which will be held at the University of Virginia s Klockner Stadium on April 27 and 29. The Orange finished 4-0 in the ACC regular season, winning three of the four games by one goal. Duke finished the ACC regular season 3-1 and will be the tournament s #2 seed. The #3 and #4 seeds in the tournament are up for grabs heading into Saturday s contest. Only the top four teams in the regular season standings qualify for this year s ACC Championship. Virginia, Notre Dame 2018 GAME SCHEDULE & RESULTS 2018 RECORD: (6-7, ACC 0-3) Date Opponent Game Time (ET)/Score H/A 2/3 Lafayette W H 2/10 Furman W (OT) H 2/17 Lehigh W (OT) H 2/23 at Johns Hopkins W A 2/28 Mercer W 14-7 H 3/3 St. John s W 9-8 H 3/5 Denver L 6-10 H 3/10 at Hofstra L 6-12 A 3/14 at Richmond L A 3/24 vs. Maryland L 7-11 Costa Mesa, Calif. (Pacific Coast Lax Shootout) 3/30 at Duke L A 4/7 Virginia L H 4/14 at Syracuse L (OT) A 4/21 Notre Dame 12 p.m. H ACC Championship (Charlottesville, Va.) 4/27 ACC Semifinals TBA 4/29 ACC Championship TBA 2018 UNC Television Schedule 2/3 Lafayette ACC Network Extra 2/10 Furman ACC Network Extra 2/17 Lehigh ACC Network Extra 2/23 Johns Hopkins ESPNU 2/28 Mercer ACC Network Extra 3/3 St. John s ACC Network Extra 3/5 Denver ACC Network Extra 3/10 Hofstra Lax Sports Network 3/14 Richmond NBCSW+ 3/24 Maryland None 3/30 Duke ESPNU 4/7 Virginia ACC Network Extra 4/14 at Syracuse ESPNU 4/21 Notre Dame ESPNU 4/27 ACC Semifinals ESPNU 4/29 ACC Championship ESPNU Follow the Tar Heels: Live Stats: statbroadcast.php?db_oem_id=32100&t=1&gid=unc Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: Media Guide: unc.sidearmsports.com/documents/2018/2/1/2018uncml axmediaguide.pdf and North Carolina are in the mix for the other two tournament spots. Currently Notre Dame is 1-2 in the ACC while Virginia is 1-3 and North Carolina is 0-3. If Notre Dame beats Carolina, the Fighting Irish go into the ACC Tournament as the #3 seed and Virginia goes in as the #4 seed since the Wahoos beat UNC head to head. If the Tar Heels beat the Fighting Irish, there are three teams tied for third in the standings. The tiebreaker then comes

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4 Joe Breschi At A Glance Full Name: Joseph Carl Breschi Birthdate: April 9, 1968 in Baltimore, Md. Hometown: Baltimore, Md. High School: Loyola- Blakefield School College: Graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications Family: Married to the former Julie Riccardelli of Roseland, N.J. Julie earned a B.A. in psychology from Denison in 1989 and a M.Ed. degree in counseling psychology from Springfield College in Children: The late Michael Robert Breschi, born September 16, 2000; Samantha Grace Breschi, born October 17, 2001; Abigail Christine Breschi, born June 5, 2003; Lucy Michaela Breschi, born September 1, 2005; Emily Valerie Breschi, born January 12, Parents: Bob and Tish Breschi of Baltimore, Md. Lacrosse Career: Two-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection as a defenseman (1989 and 1990)...two-time U.S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association All-America honoree (1989 and 1990, including first-team honors in 1990)...North-South All-Star Game participant in member of the U.S. National Team which played in the World Lacrosse Games in 1994 and named to the ACC s 50th Anniversary men s lacrosse team in Coaching Career: North Carolina, assistant coach ( ); Brown University, head assistant coach ( ); Ohio State, head coach ( ); North Carolina, head coach (2008-present). Assisted under the following head coaches: Dave Klarmann (North Carolina ); Peter Lasagna (Brown ). Coaching Highlights: USILA coach of the year led Tar Heels to 2016 NCAA title... ACC coach of the year in 2010 and 2013 Great Western Lacrosse League coach of the year in 1999, 2003 and led Ohio State to the first NCAA Tournament appearance in program history in 2003 and coached team to a return trip in led OSU to its first-ever NCAA Tournament win in 2008 by upsetting #8 seed Cornell in the first round on the Big Red s home field...coached the Buckeyes to GWLL regular-season titles in 1999, 2003, 2004 and led Carolina to the NCAA quarterfinals in 2009, 2010, 2013 and 2015 and NCAA bids in 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2017 mentored UNC to a share of the 2010, 2013 & 2016 ACC regular-season titles, the former being Carolina s first title since coached the Tar Heels to their first ACC Tournament win in 13 years in 2009 and to another finals berth in 2012 led UNC to 2013 ACC Tournament championship, Carolina s first since Tar Heels also won league tournament in as an assistant he helped lead Brown to two Ivy League championships (1994 and 1995) and a trip to the NCAA Final Four (1994)...UNC claimed two ACC championships when he was an assistant coach (1991 and 92)...Tar Heels won NCAA title in 1991 while he was an assistant under Dave Klarmann. Student-Athletes: Has had 182 players named to the ACC Academic Honor Roll in his first eight years...55 Tar Heel players have made All-ACC Academic Men s Lacrosse Team in past nine years...coached Ohio State players to 128 Academic All-Big Ten honors and 217 Ohio State scholar-athlete awards in 11 years there. Away from lacrosse: Enjoys spending time with his family, playing golf and long walks on the beach with Julie. All-Time NCAA Tournament Appearances (# Titles-through 2018) Johns Hopkins 45 (9) Maryland 40 (3) Virginia 37 (5) Syracuse 36 (10) North Carolina 32 (5) Cornell 27 (3) Navy 27 Loyola 22 (1) Notre Dame 22 Duke 21 (3) Princeton 20 (6) Massachusetts 19 Hofstra 17 Army 16 Brown 14 Towson 14 Penn 12 Georgetown 11 Denver 10 (1) Albany 9 Rutgers 9 Junior Jack Rowlett is in his third year as a starter at close defense for the Tar Heels. He was named to the 2018 preseason All-ACC Team by the league s five head coaches. down to goals allowed in ACC games amongst those three teams head to head. Notre Dame has allowed 7 goals so far, North Carolina has allowed 15 and Virginia has allowed 21 goals. Saturday s game at Kenan Stadium will be nationally televised on ESPNU with Anish Shroff on the play by play and Quint Kessenich and Paul Carcaterra serving as color analysis. Live Twitter updates during the game will be available GAME DETAILS FOR SENIOR DAY ON SATURDAY, APRIL 21: The Tar Heels will return home to Chapel Hill for their regular season finale on Saturday, April 21 when the Tar Heels host the Notre Dame Fight- A QUICK LOOK AT THE TAR HEEL PERSONNEL AND DEPTH CHART POSITION No. Name Class Hometown Notes Attack 12 Andy Matthews Jr. Baltimore, Md. Carolina s second leading scorer with 30 points, tops in assts. 15 Timmy Kelly Jr. Lutherville, Md. Had fourth hat trick of season in game at Duke 45 Chris Cloutier Sr. Kitchener, Ontario Leading Tar Heel scorer with 39 points - 29 goals, 10 assists Reserve 55 Matt Cunningham Sr. Exeter, N.H. Scored a career high five goals versus Richmond 2 Jesse Cuccia Jr. Westlake, Calif. Two-sport athlete at Carolina - also plays football 6 Mike Guerin Fr. E. Longmeadow, Mass. Tallied first 2 goals of career in win over Dartmouth last yr. 7 Zach Kissick So. Colleyville, Texas Redshirting in 2018 season 8 Jordan Prysko Jr. Calgary, Alberta Played key role on UNC s man up unit over 6 games 30 Bailey Laidman Fr. Dover, Mass. First-year player from New England 1st Midfield 1 Alex Trippi Fr. Great Falls, Va. Had 2 goals and an assist in game at Syracuse 3 William Perry So. Greenwich, Conn. UNC s leading scorer in the midfield with 29 pts (21g, 8a) 32 Matt Gavin So. Manhasset, N.Y. Earned 1st career start at Syracuse, scoring two goals 2nd Midfield 16 Sean Morris Fr. Stamford, Conn. Played in 12 games with 3 goals and 3 assists (Combintion 11 Brian Cannon Sr. Northport, N.Y. Co-Most Improved Player on 2016 NCAA champion team of these 17 Ryan O Connell Fr. New Canaan, Conn. Has won 15 face-offs and scored a pair of goals this season players) 31 Steven Schneider Fr. Manhasset, N.Y. Notched first career goal versus Syracuse 77 Tanner Cook So. Courtice, Ontario Started 12 games- 15 goals, 2 assists Other Mids 5 Mike D Alessandro Sr. Franklin Lakes, N.J. Retired due to injuries 9 Patrick McCormick Sr. Hicksville, N.Y. Retired due to injuries 18 Ryan O;Connor So. Burke, Va. Has come back from major injuries to play in 2 games this yr. 21 Justin Anderson So. Las Vegas, Calif. Out for season after Duke game due to hand injury 24 Ara Atayan Fr. Bronxville, N.Y. Oustanding freshman midfielder from New York 38 Jack Kozmetsky Fr. Dallas, Texas Redshirting during the 2018 season 39 Nate Miller Fr. Centennial, Colo. Outstanding freshman midfielder from Colorado 41 Colin Munro Fr. Highlands Ranc, Colo. Returned to lineup at Duke after missing six games 46 Alex Helms Fr. Matthews, N.C. North Carolina native who earned spot on Tar Heel roster 47 Kevin Gill Fr. Chatham, Md. Tremendous young talent from New Jersey 49 Matt McLaughlin Fr. Harrison, N.Y. Admitted to Carolina last summer and earned roster spot Face-Offs 26 Charles Kelly Jr. Allentown, Pa. Won career high 16 faceoffs against UVA 17 Ryan O Connell Fr. New Canaan, Conn. Has taken 39 face-offs this year and scored two goals 25 Riley Graham Sr. Dallas, Texas Has taken 70 face-offs this season SSDM 14 William McBride Sr. Baltimore, Md. Arguably Carolina s best player-can contribute in all phases 28 Cam Macri So. Hamilton, Mass. Has played in 11 games, picking up 10 ground balls 40 Cole Haverty Jr. Atlanta, Ga. Played in 10 games as one of top three short stick def. mids 19 Timmy Gehlbach So. Altamonte Springs, Fla. Has seen action in 9 games this season 23 Parker Alexander Fr. Dallas, Texas Outstanding young freshman who has seen action in 8 gms Close Def. 20 Ryan Macri Sr. Hamilton, Mass. Now in his third year as a starter at close defense 22 Jack Rowlett Jr. Burke, Va. Preseason All-ACC selection; 3rd year starter on CD 43 Michael Nathan Jr. Naples, Fla. Transfer from Colby has started 9 games on close defense CD Reserve 29 Patrick Lyons So. WIlmington, Del. Tremendous athlete who will likely climb depth chart at CD 33 Kyle Kolwich Fr. Oakville, Ontario Outstanding young freshman from North of the Border 35 Joey Carrington Fr. Danville, Calif. Another outstanding young defenseman from California 36 Paddy Sheehan Jr. Charlotte, N.C. In third year on team - key practice player 37 Joe Kenna Sr. Chantilly, Va. Captain was lost for season due to knee injury after 2 games 44 Bug Carper Sr. Hollis, N.H. Tremendous player who has retired due to injuries 50 Kevin Walker Jr. Lutherville, Md. Expected to see more action as season progresses 66 Case Carpenter Jr. Dallas, Texas Another key practice player for the Tar Heels 99 Tyler Seminetta So. Kenilworth, Ill. Another outstanding young defenseman on Heels roster LSDM 0 Jake Peden Jr. Downingtown, Pa. Scored first career goal in win over Mercer 4 Jack Halpert Jr. Baltimore, Md. Second on the team in ground balls with Kyle Mathie Sr. Smithtown, N.Y. Team captain; third year in LSDM rotation Goalie 48 Alex Bassil Jr. Durham, N.C. Assumed starting goalie position in game vs. Maryland 42 Jack Pezzulla So. Baltimore, Md. Has started 7 games; career high 13 saves vs. JHU 34 Luke Millican Fr. Southlake, Texas Started first two games of the season before injury 52 Patrick Sasser Fr. Cary, N.C. Another local product who is currently on injury list

5 ing Irish at 12 noon at Kenan Stadium. That game will be nationally televised on ESPNU. Admission will be free. It will be Senior Day in Chapel Hill, honoring the 13 senior members of Carolina s squad Career Hat Tricks By Active UNC Players Chris Cloutier 14 Timmy Kelly 5 Tanner Cook 3 William Perry 2 Justin Anderson 2 Brian Cannon 1 Andy Matthews 1 Matt Cunningham 1 Matt Gavin 1 in pregame ceremonies. It is also Alumni Weekend in Chapel Hill for the Tar Heel men s and women s lacrosse programs. That Saturday s game is part of a doubleheader with the UNC women playing Duke at 3 p.m. at Kenan Stadium after the men s game between UNC and Notre Dame kicks off the day at 12 noon. For the doubleheader games on Saturday, April 21, fans will now be sitting on the North side of the stadium in the new individual chairback blue seats. Both gates 2 and 5 will be open for entry for fans to Kenan Stadium. Fan parking is at Bell Tower Deck and is free of charge in a first come, first serve basis. Backup parking is at Rams Head Parking Deck (an hourly fee in Rams Head). Fans are encouraged to come early in order to obtain the best parking as there are multiple events on campus that day. Chapel Hill Sportswear and concessions will now be open on the North side of stadium only. SENIOR DAY HONOREES: Saturday the University of North Carolina men s lacrosse program, coaching staff and Tar Heel athletic department will to recognize the 13 seniors participating in their final regular season home game at Kenan BRESCHI S CAREER RECORD Overall Conference# Conf. Conference NCAA Year School W L Pct. W L Pct. RS Place Tournament Tournament 1998 Ohio State rd 1999 Ohio State Tied-1st 2000 Ohio State Tied-2nd 2001 Ohio State Tied-4th 2002 Ohio State rd 2003 Ohio State Tied-1st Ohio State st Ohio State th 2006 Ohio State Tied-2nd 2007 Ohio State nd 2008 Ohio State Tied-1st Runnerup UNC th Runnerup UNC Tied-1 st Semifinalist UNC Tied-2 nd Semifinalist UNC Tied-3rd Runnerup UNC Tied 1st Champion UNC Tied 3rd Did Not Qualify UNC nd Semifinalist UNC Tied 1st Semifinalist UNC th Champion UNC Totals #Ohio State played in the now defunct Great Western Lacrosse League when Breschi coached there; UNC plays in the Atlantic Coast Conference Most Face-offs Won in a Game in UNC History 23 by Shane Walterhoefer vs. Ohio State, by Stephen Kelly vs. Virginia, by Stephen Kelly vs. Duke, two other occasions with 22 wins 20 by Stephen Kelly vs. Colgate, by Stephen Kelly vs. Duke, three other occasions with 20 wins 19 by Stephen Kelly vs. Notre Dame, by Stephen Kelly vs. Loyola, four other occasions with 19 wins 18 by Stephen Kelly vs. Notre Dame, by Riley Graham vs. Dartmouth, by Stephen Kelly vs. Syracuse, other occasions with 18 wins 17 by Stephen Kelly vs. UMass, by Stephen Kelly vs. Johns Hopkins, by Stephen Kelly vs. UMass, by Stephen Kelly vs. Richmond, by Stephen Kelly vs. Virginia, by Stephen Kelly vs. Notre Dame, nine other occasions with 17 wins 16 by Stephen Kelly vs. Richmond, by Stephen Kelly vs. Manhattan, by Charles Kelly vs. Virginia, other occasions with 16 wins 15 by Stephen Kelly vs. Princeton, by Stephen Kelly vs. Manhattan, by Charles Kelly vs. Lehigh, other occasions with 15 wins Most Ground Balls in a Game in UNC history 15 by Michael Burnett vs. NC State, by Todd Oudemool vs. Towson, by Jude Collins vs. Duke, by Jude Collins vs. Virginia, by Shane Walterhoefer vs. Ohio State, by Shane Walterhoefer vs. Providence, by Stephen Kelly vs. Virginia, by Jude Collins vs. Maryland, by Stephen Kelly vs. Princeton, by Stephen Kelly vs. Notre Dame, by Stephen Kelly vs. Duke, by Riley Graham vs. Dartmouth, Stadium. Along with the players the program would like to recognize and thank the senior parents and families for their generous support of the Tar Heel lacrosse program for the past four years. Tar Heel fifth-year senior and two-time team captain Ryan Macri from Hamilton, Mass. was formally recognized at last year s senior day. THE 2018 SENIOR CLASS Midfielder from Northport, N.Y. #11- BRI- AN CANNON accompanied by his mother Diana Cannon, her boyfriend Tom Winkler and Brian s cousins Larry Cerasi and John Trainor Defenseman from Hollis, N.H. #44 BUG CARPER accompanied by his parents Don and Ronda Carper Attackman from Kitchener, Ontario #45 CHRIS CLOUTIER accompanied by his parents Phill and Lauren Cloutier and his sister, Taylor Attackman from Exeter, N.H. #55 MATT CUNNINGHAM accompanied by his parents Bill Cunningham and Trudee Van Zee Midfielder from Franklin Lakes, N.J. #5 MIKE D ALLESANDRO accompanied by his parents Mike and Margaret D Alessandro Midfielder from Altamonte Springs, Fla. #19 TIMMY GEHLBACH accompanied by his parents David and Eileen Gehlbach, his sisters Mary-Kate and Michaela and his brother Ian Midfielder from Dallas, Texas #25 RILEY GRAHAM accompanied by his parents John and Amy Graham Defenseman from Chantilly, Va. #37 JOE KENNA accompanied by his parents Raymond and Kim Kenna and his sister Anna Defenseman from Smithtown, N.Y. #88 KYLE MATHIE accompanied by his parents Russell and Esther Mathie, his sister Sarah and his brother Ryan Midfielder from Baltimore, Md. #14 WILLIAM McBRIDE accompanied by his parents Paul and Chris McBride and his brother Paul Midfielder from Hicksville, N.Y. #9 PAT- RICK McCORMICK accompanied by his parents John and Maureen McCormick Attackman from Calgary, Alberta #8 JORDAN PRYSKO accompanied by his father Dave Prysko This Tar Heel senior class included players who were key members of some of the most important accomplishments in recent Carolina history, winning the 2016 NCAA championship and the 2017 ACC championship. LAST TIME OUT FOR THE TAR HEELS: Brendan Bomberry scored off an assist from Brendan Curry with 52 seconds elapsed in overtime to lift sixthranked Syracuse to a overtime win over North Carolina in men s lacrosse action Saturday at the Carrier Dome in front of 4,374 fans. Syracuse clinched the regular season ACC championship with the win as it now

6 2018 CAROLINA HONOR ROLL USILA National Team of the Week Chris Cloutier, Senior, Attackman, February 13, 2018 Timmy Kelly, Junior, Attackmen, February 27, 2018 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List Chris Cloutier, Senior, Attackman ACC Offensive Player of the Week Timmy Kelly, Junior, Attackman, February 26, 2018 Inside Lacrosse s Preseason DI Media All- Americans Chris Cloutier, Third Team, Attackman Michael Tagliaferri, Honorable Mention, Midfielder ACC Coaches Preseason All-ACC Team Chris Cloutier, Attackman Jack Rowlett, Defenseman 2018 Captains Chris Cloutier, Senior, Attackman Joe Kenna, Senior, Defenseman Ryan Macri, Senior, Defenseman Kyle Mathie, Senior, Defenseman William McBride, Senior, Midfielder 2018 Athletic Director s Scholar Athlete Award Riley Graham, Senior, Midfielder stands 7-4 overall and 4-0 in the ACC. North Carolina fell to 6-7 on the season and 0-3 in the ACC. Alex Trippi and Matt Gavin led the Tar Heels offensively with two goals and one assist each. William Perry and Timmy Kelly each scored two goals while Andy Matthews had a goal and two assists. Chris Cloutier had a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels. Nate Solomon led Syracuse with four goals. Brendan Bomberry and Brendan Curry each had two goals and an assist for the Orange who have won the last three regular season meetings against Carolina. Matt Lane had two goals and Stephen Rehfuss had a goal and an assist. Syracuse led by two goals in the second quarter before the Tar Heels rallied to tie the game at 4-4 going into halftime. The Tar Heels led by a pair of goals twice in the second half but Syracuse came back to tie each time. Goals by Jack Rowlett, Matt Gavin and Alex Trippi put UNC up 12-9 with 7:22 to play in the fourth quarter but the Orange defense shut out the Tar Heels the rest of the way. Back-to-back goals by Brendan Curry with 1:34 and 48 seconds left in the fourth quarter rallied Syracuse and sent the game to overtime where Syracuse won the face-off, called timeout and then get the game-winner with 3:08 left in the extra period. The Orange led in shots and in ground balls Syracuse also led in the face-off circle UNC had fewer turnovers with 13 while the Orange had 15. Alex Bassil made 10 saves for Carolina while Dom Madonna had seven saves for Syracuse. The Tar Heels will be back in action next Saturday when UNC plays Notre Dame at 12 noon at Kenan Stadium. The game will be nationally televised on ESPNU. Admission for next Saturday s game is free and the game marks 2018 Senior Day at Kenan Stadium with the Tar Heel lacrosse program honoring 13 seniors in pre-game ceremonies. CAROLINA QUICK FACTS First Varsity Season: 1949 All-Time Record: (.619) NCAA Tournament Appearances: 32 (1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017) Head Coach: Joe Breschi (North Carolina 90) Record at UNC: ,.663 (10th Year as head coach) Career Record: ,.629 (21st Year as head coach) Associate Head Coach & Offensive Coordinator: David Metzbower (4th season, Delaware 86) Assistant Coach: Joe Martin (5th season, Western New England 12) Volunteer Assistant Coach: Bruce Frady (2nd season, Eastern Connecticut State 05) Director of Operations: Matt Hudson (2nd season, Springfield 12) Conference: Atlantic Coast Conference Home Field: Kenan Stadium (grass, 63,000 seats) 2018 Record: 6-7, ACC 0-3 Current Streak: Lost Seven Games in a row 2018 Statistical Leaders Goals: Chris Cloutier, 29 Assists: Andy Matthews, 23 Points: Chris Cloutier, 39 Man-Up Goals: William Perry, 10 Saves: Jack Pezzulla, 54 Save Percentage: Alex Bassill,.486 Ground Balls: Charles Kelly, 35 Face-Off Wins: Charles Kelly, 98 Shots: Chris Cloutier, 100 Shots on Goal: Chris Cloutier, 56 Caused Turnovers: William McBride, 10 Face-off Percentage: Charles Kelly, MOST RECENT POLLS Maverik Division I Media Poll, April 16, 2018 Rk Team Rec. Pts. 1st Pl. Votes 1. Maryland Albany Duke Denver Yale Cornell Johns Hopkins Loyola Syracuse Rutgers Penn State Bucknell Virginia Navy Notre Dame Villanova Georgetown UMass Robert Morris Penn Receiving Votes: Vermont, Lehigh, Saint Joseph s, Ohio State, Michigan, Harvard, Richmond, Brown Italicized teams are UNC opponents USILA Division I Men s Coaches Poll, April 16, 2018 Rk Team Rec. Pts. (1st Pl.) Last 1. Maryland (19) 1 2. Albany (2) 3 3. Denver Duke Yale Loyola Johns Hopkins Cornell Syracuse Rutgers Bucknell Penn State Virginia Notre Dame Villanova Navy Robert Morris Georgetown N/R 19. Lehigh Penn N/R Also Receiving Votes: Vermont, North Carolina, Michigan, Harvard, Ohio State, Marquette, Princeton, Drexel Italicized teams are UNC opponents SECOND HALF RALLY AGAINST VIR- GINIA FALLS JUST SHORT: The 20thranked University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team returned to Kenan Stadium for the first time in 33 days Saturday, April 7 but fell to Atlantic Coast Conference rival Virginia The win for the 11th-ranked Cavaliers was their first over Carolina since April of Virginia, one of the nation s most improved teams, improved to 9-3 overall and 1-2 in the ACC. Carolina dropped its sixth game in a row and now stands at 6-6 overall and 0-2 in the ACC. The Tar Heels led only twice in the game at 1-0 and at 2-1. Virginia scored eight of the last 10 goals of the first half to take a 9-4 lead into intermission. That scoring run included the last four goals of the first half with Michael Kraus scoring twice and assisting on another. The Cavaliers took their biggest lead of the game as Mike D Amario scored with 9:38 left in the third quarter to make the advantage Matt Gavin scored back-to-back goals for UNC and then William Perry added a man-up goal to pull the Tar Heels within 10-7 with 2:58 left in the third quarter. Virginia scored just 10 seconds later, sparking a three-goal run in just 1:31 that put Virginia up Timmy Kelly and Matt Gavin scored goals in the last minute of the third quarter but the Heels never got closer than three goals after that when Tanner Cook tallied an extra-man goal with 1:02 left in the final period. Timmy Kelly, Matt Gavin and William Perry all had four-point games for UNC. Gavin s four points were a career high while Kelly and Perry both matched their career highs for points in a game. The three goals by Gavin were a career high while the three assists by Kelly and the two assists by Perry equaled their career highs. The only other Tar Heel with a multi-point game was Chris Cloutier with two assists. Michael Kraus led the Wahoos offense with seven points on three goals and four assists. Mike D Amario had four goals for Virginia and Ian Laviano tallied three times for the Wahoos who had nine assists on their 15 goals. Mikey Herring had one goal and three assists and Matt Moore and CAROLINA PLAYERS AMONGST ACTIVE NCAA CAREER LEADERS-APRIL 18, 2018 Career Points Per Game 28th, Chris Cloutier, 3.00 Career Points 21st, Chris Cloutier, 147 points Career Goals Per Game 15th, Chris Cloutier, 2.22 Career Goals 12th, Chris Cloutier, 109 goals Assists Per Game 15th, Andy Matthews, 1.56 Assists 35th, Andy Matthews, 50 assists

7 Senior defenseman Ryan Macri is in his second year as a co-captain for the Tar Heels. Macri is one of just eight individuals in the history of the program to be named a captain in multiple seasons. Dox Aitken each scored two times. Virginia outshot the Tar Heels and had a edge in ground balls. Virginia had just 10 turnovers while UNC had 11, three above their season average. Each team failed on four clearing attempt with Virginia going 15 of 19 and UNC going 20 of 24. Charles Kelly won a career high 16 face-offs going 16 of 28 at the X. His previous career high was 15 face-off wins against Lehigh on February 17. Kelly shared the team lead in ground balls for Carolina with Jack Rowlett as each had five. Justin Schwenk led the Cavaliers with six ground balls. Virginia goalkeeper Alex Rode made 10 saves while playing all 60 minutes. Alex Bassil started for the Tar Heels and played 42:09, making 10 saves and allowing 10 goals. Jack Pezzulla made two saves and allowed five goals in 17:51 of action. The Tar Heels will be back in action next Saturday when UNC plays at Syracuse at 4 p.m. The game at the Carrier Dome will be nationally televised on ESPNU. DUKE HANDS TAR HEELS TIGHT NORTH CAROLINA IN 2018 Home: 5-2 Away: 1-4 Neutral: 0-1 vs. Ranked Opponents 1-5 vs. Unranked Opponents 5-2 vs. ACC Teams 0-3 vs. Non-Conference Teams 6-4 When Scoring First: 4-3 When Opponent Scores First: 2-4 When leading at halftime: 5-0 When trailing at halftime: 0-5 When tied at halftime: 1-2 In overtime: 2-1 One-goal games: 3-3 Two-goal games: 1-0 Three-goal games: 0-1 Four-goal games: 0-2 Five-plus goal games: 2-1 Saturday or Sunday: 4-4 Weekday (Monday through Friday): 2-3 LOSS: Carolina turned in one of its two most impressive performances of the 2018 season but fifth-ranked Duke scored four goals over a span of 5:45 late in the third quarter and early in the fourth quarter to ease past North Carolina in men s lacrosse action before 4,000 fans at Koskinen Stadium and a national television audience on ESPNU on Friday, March 30. Duke improved to 9-2 on the season and 1-1 in the ACC while North Carolina fell to 6-5 and 0-1 in the ACC. Arguably it was one of Carolina s best efforts this season, topped only by a win at Johns Hopkins (currrently the nation s #5-ranked team) on Friday, February 23. In that game, North Carolina handed the Blue Jays one of only two losses they have experienced this year and their only loss at home in Baltimore. The only other loss for Hopkins came at Loyola. Against the Blue Devils, offensively, Chris Cloutier had three goals and an assist for the Tar Heels while Timmy Kelly scored three times. Both Andy Matthews and Justin Anderson had a goal and two assists. Duke was powered by basicalluy a twoman offense. Justin Guterding had four goals and three assists for the Blue Devils while Brad Smith had four goals and two assists. Those two players accounted for eight of the Blue Devils 11 goals and five of their eight assists. Only two of Duke s nine goals did not involve a goal or an assist by Guterding and Smith. UNC outshot Duke Both starting goalkeepers Alex Bassil for UNC and Danny Fowler for Duke made nine saves while playing all 60 minutes in the game. Duke led in ground balls 32-24, including a key edge in the fourth quarter when the Blue Devils had 12 ground balls to UNC s five. The Blue Devils won 17 of 24 face-offs in the game. During UNC s fivegame losing streak both of those areas have been problematic for the Tar Heels. CAROLINA S SECOND TRIP TO PA- CIFIC COAST LAX SHOOTOUT ENDS IN HARD FOUGHT LOSS: On Saturday, March 24, the Tar Heels, then ranked 19th, fell against the #2-ranked and defending NCAA champion University of Maryland Terrapins by an 11-7 score in the 2018 Pacific Coast Lax Shootout. UNC trailed the entire game and fell behind by as much as 8-2 early in the third quarter. But Breschi s troops staged a furious rally and cut the lead to 9-7 with approximately five minutes left in the game. But that was as close as the Tar Heels would get and the Terps eventually pulled away for an 11-7 triumph and their fourth straight regular-season win over Carolina. Still, the effort against the Terps was markedly improved over the last couple of games and the Tar Heels will have some UNC Players & Team in NCAA Statistics (Stats as of April 18, 2018) Individual Rankings Goals Per Game: Chris Cloutier, 49th, 2.23; Timmy Kelly, 123rd, 1.67; William Perry, 133rd, 1.62 Assists Per Game: Andy Matthews, 28th, 1.77; Justin Anderson, 136th, 0.82; Chris Cloutier, 148th, 0.77 Saves Per Game: Jack Pezzulla, 63rd, 4.50 Face-Off Percentage: Charles Kelly, 39th,.500 Ground Balls Per Game: Charles Kelly, 72nd, 3.40 Points Per Game: Chris Cloutier, 77th, 3.00 Individual Man Up Goals: William Perry, 1st, 10 Team Rankings Winning Percentage: 37th,.462 Scoring Offense: 28th, Scoring Defense: 47th, Scoring Margin: 38th, Man Up Offense: 10th, Man Down Defense: 27th,.686 Face-Off Winning Percentage: 48th, Shot Percentage: 28th, Ground Balls Per Game: 45th, Clearing Percentage: 31st, Points Per Game: 31st, Assists Per Game: 34th, 6.00 Caused Turnovers Per Game: 59th, 5.38 Saves Per Game: 51st, 9.46 Turnovers Per Game: 3rd, momentum to build on as they head into the ACC schedule. Saturday s game in California marked the second time the Tar Heels played in the Pacific Coast Lax Shootout. The Tar Heels also played in the event on March 21, 2015 when the Maryland Terrapins beat Carolina 10-8 in a match played in Santa Ana, Calif. Following are the yearby-year results of the Pacific Coast Lax Shootout Denver 10, Notre Dame Maryland 10, North Carolina Notre Dame 9, Maryland Virginia 19, Cornell 18 (OT) 2018-Maryland 11, North Carolina 7 UNC-NOTRE DAME GAME DETAILS: After starting the season with six straight wins, the Tar Heels head face Notre Dame Saturday looking to end a seven-game losing streak, Carolina s longest losing streak since it dropped nine games in a row in The 6-7 Tar Heels opened the campaign with successive wins over Lafayette, Furman, Lehigh, Johns Hopkins, Mercer and St. John s before dropping a 10-6 home game against Denver on March 5. In their past six games, including five of six away from home, the Tar Heels fell at Hofstra 12-6 on March 10, at Richmond on March 14, against #2 Maryland by an 11-7 score at Costa Mesa, Calif. on March 24, at fifth-ranked Duke on Friday, March 30, at home against Virginia

8 Most Consecutive Games with a Point # Games Player Date Started Date Ended 55 Jimmy Bitter 3/16/12 4/18/15 53 Joey Sankey 4/20/12 5/17/15 50 Dennis Goldstein 2/28/89 5/27/91 50 Ryan Wade 5/11/91 5/21/94 45 Michael Burnett 4/16/80 5/21/83 44 Merrill Turnbull 5/8/94 5/3/97 43 Brendan Carey 3/20/94 5/18/96 43 Jed Prossner 4/27/02 4/29/05 38 Bart Wagner 2/26/06 4/5/08 36 Luke Goldstock 2/7/15 2/4/17 33 Mac Ford 4/16/83 5/19/85 33 Chris Cloutier 5/14/16 Active 32 Marcus Holman 2/18/12 5/19/13 31 Harper Peterson 3/18/68 5/13/70 29 Billy Bitter 2/7/09 4/17/10 28 Bruce Ledwith 4/15/71 4/26/73 24 Bert Fett 4/7/73 4/2/75 24 John Webster 4/6/91 5/16/92 20 Jeff Sonke 3/22/00 4/26/01 20 Mike McCall 4/27/02 3/14/04 20 Steve Pontrello 5/10/15 5/30/16 19 Chad Tutton 3/9/13 3/11/14 19 Andy Matthews 3/4/17 3/5/18 Most Consecutive Games with a Goal # Games Player Date Started Date Ended 31 Chris Cloutier 5/14/16 4/7/18 29 Marcus Holman 2/18/12 4/26/13 27 Mac Ford 5/21/83 5/19/85 25 Harper Peterson 3/18/68 4/2/70 25 Luke Goldstock 2/7/15 3/19/16 24 Merrill Turnbull 3/5/95 3/23/96 22 Bert Fett 4/10/73 4/2/75 21 Jimmy Bitter 2/16/14 3/10/15 20 Mike McCall 4/17/02 3/14/04 20 Joey Sankey 5/19/13 4/21/15 19 Chad Tutton 3/9/13 3/11/14 15 John Webster 2/28/93 5/31/93 15 Ryan Wade 3/20/93 3/19/94 15 Chase Martin 2/28/98 2/26/99 14 Jed Prossner 3/29/03 4/3/04 14 Joey Sankey 2/8/13 4/26/13 13 Jeff Sonke 3/26/99 4/18/99 13 Steve Pontrello 5/10/15 4/10/16 12 Jimmy Bitter 4/1/12 3/9/13 12 Chad Tutton 3/21/12 2/23/13 11 Bart Wagner 3/11/09 5/17/09 10 Dennis Goldstein 3/17/90 4/27/90 10 Jimmy Bitter 3/18/13 5/11/13 9 Justin Anderson 4/22/17 3/5/18 9 Timmy Kelly 4/22/17 3/5/18 Most Consecutive Games with an Assist # Games Player Date Started Date Ended 22 Bruce Ledwith 3/11/72 4/7/73 21 Michael Burnett 4/26/80 4/10/82 18 Dennis Goldstein 3/25/90 4/13/91 17 Joey Sankey 2/7/15 5/17/15 16 Brendan Carey 2/25/96 5/18/96 16 Andy Matthews 3/18/17 3/5/18 14 Marcus Holman 3/10/12 2/23/13 12 Bart Wagner 3/31/07 3/11/08 11 Jed Prossner 4/3/04 3/12/05 10 John Webster 3/27/93 5/31/93 9 Gavin Petracca 3/19/10 5/22/10 8 Bert Fett 4/6/74 3/12/75 8 Spencer Deering 4/23/95 3/13/96 8 Jeff Sonke 4/21/00 3/17/01 8 Steve Pontrello 4/10/16 5/30/16 7 Chris Cloutier 3/5/16 4/10/ April 7 in Chapel Hill and at ACC regular season champion Syracuse last Saturday in overtime at the Carrier Dome. The game against Maryland ended the non- ACC portion of the season for the Tar Heels who finish their 2018 regular season with four straight ACC games. A win over Notre Dame Saturday would give the Tar Heels a significant NCAA RPI victory. Notre Dame is currently #5 in the NCAA RPI. The only Tar Heel opponents this year ranked higher in this week s NCAA RPI are Maryland at No. 1 and Duke at No. 3. Carolina stands 24th in the latest NCAA RPI. Despite being on a seven-game losing streak, the Tar Heels enter the Notre Dame game in virtually the exact same position as they were the past two seasons as far as their chance to play their way into berths in the ACC and NCAA Tournaments. UNC enters the final regular season game with a 6-7 record, having played against one of the toughest schedules in the country to date. In 2016, UNC was 5-4 entering the ACC portion of its schedule and went 3-2 against ACC opponents to finish 8-6 and earn an NCAA bid that eventually led to the a national championship. In 2017, Carolina was again 5-4 entering games against CURRENT TAR HEEL CAREER MULTI-POINT, MULTI-GOAL, MULTI-ASSIST GAMES Justin Anderson 4 multi-goal games (3 in 2017, 1 in 2018); 3 multi-assist games (3 in 2018); 8 multipoint games (4 in 2017, 4 in 2018). Brian Cannon 7 multi-goal games (1 in 2015, 4 in 2016, 1 in 2017, 1 in 2018); 9 multi-point games (1 in 2015, 4 in 2016, 3 in 2017, 1 in 2018). Chris Cloutier 31 multi-goal games (10 in 2016, 12 in 2017, 9 in 2018); 7 multi-assist games (3 in 2016, 2 in 2017, 2 in 2018); 42 multi-point games (14 in 2016, 16 in 2017, 12 in 2018). Tanner Cook 6 multi-goal games (3 in 2017, 3 in 2018); 8 multi-point games (5 in 2017, 3 in 2018). Matt Cunningham 2 multi-goal games (2 in 2018); 2 multi-point game (2 in 2018). Matt Gavin 2 multi-goal games (1 in 2017), 1 in 2018; 3 multi-point games (2 in 2017, 1 in 2018). Mike Guerin 1 multi-goal game (1 in 2017); 1 multi-point game (1 in 2017). Timmy Kelly 11 multi-goal games (2 in 2016, 4 in 2017, 5 in 2018); 3 multi-assist games (1 in 2016, 2 in 2017); 19 multi-point games (4 in 2016, 7 in 2017, 8 in 2018). Andy Matthews 3 multi-goal games (2 in 2017, 1 in 2018); 18 multi-assist games (8 in 2017, 10 in 2018); 22 multi-point games (12 in 2017, 10 in 2018). William McBride 3 multi-goal games (2 in 2016, 1 in 2017); 4 multi-point games (1 in 2015, 2 in 2016, 1 in 2017). Sean Morris 1 multi-point game (1 in 2018). Colin Munro 1 multi-point game (1 in 2018). William Perry 10 multi-goal games (2 in 2017, 8 in 2018); 3 multi-assist games (1 in 2017, 2 in 2018); 13 multi-point games (3 in 2017, 10 in 2018). Jack Rowlett 1 multi-goal game (1 in 2017); 1 multi-point game (1 in 2017). Alex Trippi 2 multi-goal games (2 in 2018); 1 multiassist game (1 in 2018); 3 multi-point games (3 in 2018). ACC opponents and it went 3-3 the rest of the way and earned an NCAA Tournament bid at 8-7. So this year s situation is no different. The Tar Heels can still play their way into post-season play. UNC s regular season records (prior to ACC and NCAA Tournaments) over the past three seasons have been 8-5 in 2016, 6-7 in 2017 and 6-7 so far in Each of the previous two years resulted in championships for Carolina - an NCAA title in 2016 and an ACC crown in SCOUTING THE FIGHTING IRISH: Carolina will be facing a Notre Dame team that has been up and down in 2018 in terms of wins and losses but is in a good position to earn yet another bid to the NCAA Tournament. Notre Dame is currently the No. 5 team in the NCAA RPI. The Fighting Irish opened the season with wins in four of its first five games. This including victories over three teams which beat Carolina this season - Richmond, Denver and Virginia. The only loss for Notre Dame in its first five games came at Maryland on March 3. Since beating Denver and Virginia back-to-back on March 10 and March 17, the Fighting Irish has gone 2-3. The Irish were upset at home by Michigan before rebounding a few days later to win 9-8 at Ohio State. The Fighting Irish fell at Syracuse 10-6

9 UPDATED SINGLE GAME CAREER HIGHS (Career highs reflect only two or more in each category) Justin Anderson Goals 3 vs. UMBC, ; 3 vs. Richmond, ; Assists 3 vs. Furman, ; Points 5 vs. Richmond, ; Ground Balls-3 vs. Notre Dame, Alex Bassill - Saves - 10 vs. Maryland, ; Ground Balls - 2 vs. Maryland, ; 2 vs. Virginia, ; 2 vs. Syracuse, Brian Cannon Goals 3 vs. Syracuse, ; Points 3 vs. Syracuse, ; Ground Balls 2 vs. Lehigh, Chris Cloutier Career Highs: Goals 9 vs. Loyola, ; Assists 4 vs. Dartmouth, ; Points 9 vs. Loyola, ; Ground Balls 5 vs. Virginia, ; 5 vs. Furman, Tanner Cook Goals 5 vs. Furman, ; Points 5 vs. Furman, Jesse Cuccia Ground Balls-2 vs. Dartmouth, Matt Cunningham Goals-5 vs. Richmond, ; Points-5 vs. Richmond, ; Ground Balls-2 vs. Maryland, Matt Gavin Goals 3 vs. Virginia, ; Points 4 vs. Virginia, ; Ground Balls 3 vs. Syracuse, Timmy Gehlbach Ground Balls - 3 vs. Massachusetts, Riley Graham Ground Balls 12 vs. Dartmouth, Face-Offs Won 18 vs. Dartmouth, ; Face-Offs Attempted 26 vs. Dartmouth, Mike Guerin Goals 2 vs. Dartmouth, ; Points 2 vs. Dartmouth, Jack Halpert Ground Balls 6 vs. Mercer, ; Caused Turnovers 2 vs. Furman, Cole Haverty Ground Balls 2 vs. Furman, Charles Kelly Face-Offs Won: 16 vs. Virginia, ; Face-Off Percentage.786 (11-14) vs. Furman, ; Face-Offs Attempted: 28 vs. Virginia, ; Ground Balls 6 vs. Furman, ; 6 vs. Lehigh, Timmy Kelly Goals: 4 vs. Johns Hopkins, ; Assists: 3 vs. Virginia, ; 3 vs. Virginia, ; Points: 4 vs. Virginia, ; 4 vs. Lafayette, ; 4 vs. Johns Hopkins, ; 4 vs. Virginia, ; Ground Balls: 4 vs. St. John s, Joe Kenna Ground Balls - 3 vs. UMBC, ; 3 vs. Hofstra, ; Caused Turnovers 2 vs. Notre Dame, Cam Macri Ground Balls - 2 vs. Hofstra, ; 2 vs. Richmond, ; 2 vs. Duke, Ryan Macri Ground Balls: 6 vs. Syracuse, ; Caused Turnovers: 3 vs. Syracuse, Kyle Mathie Ground Balls: 3 vs. UMBC, ; 3 vs. Richmond, ; 3 vs. Albany, ; Caused Turnovers: 2 vs. Duke, ; 2 vs. UMBC, ; 2 vs. Furman, Andy Matthews Goals 3 vs. Dartmouth, ; Assists 4 vs. Lehigh, ; Points 5 vs. Dartmouth, ; 5 vs. Lehigh, ; Ground Balls 5 vs. Richmond, ; Caused Turnovers 2 vs. Richmond, William McBride Goals: 2 vs. Michigan, ; 2 vs. Virginia, ; 2 vs. Virginia, ; Points: 3 vs. Michigan, ; Ground Balls: 4 vs. Maryland, ; 4 vs. Denver, ; 4 vs. Hofstra, ; Caused Turnovers 3 vs. Lafayette, Luke Millican Saves 9 vs. Furman, ; Ground Balls 3 vs. Furman, Sean Morris Points: 2 vs. Mercer, Michael Nathan Caused Turnovers 2 vs. Mercer, ; Ground Balls 4 vs. Duke, Colin Munro Points 2 vs. Lafayette, Ryan O Connell - Faceoffs Won - 9 vs. Richmond, ; Faceoffs Attempted - 17 vs. Richmond, ; Ground Balls - 6 vs. Richmond, Jake Peden Ground Balls 2 vs. Furman, ; 2 vs. Lehigh, ; 2 vs. Lehigh, ; 2 vs. Richmond, William Perry - Goals 4 vs. Lehigh, ; Assists 2 vs. Virginia, ; 2 vs. Johns Hopkins, ; 2 vs. Virginia, ; Points 4 vs. Lehigh, ; 4 vs. Virginia, ; Ground Balls 3 vs. Furman, ; 3 vs. Richmond, ; Caused Turnovers-2 vs. Virginia, Jack Pezzulla Saves 13 vs. Johns Hopkins, ; Ground Balls 3 vs. Mercer, Jordan Prysko Ground Balls: 2 vs. Michigan, Jack Rowlett Goals: 2 vs. Albany, ; Points: 2 vs. Albany, ; Ground Balls: 6 vs. Johns Hopkins, ; 6 vs. Notre Dame, ; Caused Turnovers: 4 vs. Massachusetts, ; 4 vs. Syracuse, Alex Trippi Goals: 2 vs. Denver, ; 2 vs. Syracuse, ; Assists: 2 vs. Mercer, ; Points: 3 vs. Mercer, ; 3 vs. Syracuse, ; Ground Balls: 3 vs. Mercer, and at home against Duke 8-2 in successive ACC games before winning its most recent game, winning at Marquette 7-6 on April 11. CAROLINA VERSUS NOTRE DAME THE SERIES: North Carolina and Notre Dame will play for the 18th time on the lacrosse field on Saturday when the squads tussle at Kenan Stadium in Chapel Hill. North Carolina won the first meeting in Chapel Hill in 1995 by an 11-8 score at Fetzer Field. Altogether, North Carolina leads the series 9-8. The two teams have played each other six times since Notre Dame joined the ACC in 2014 with each team winning three of those meetings. ALL-TIME MEETINGS March 5, UNC 11, Notre Dame 8 at Chapel Hill, N.C. April 13, UNC 11, Notre Dame 10 at Notre Dame, Ind. March 6, Notre Dame 10, UNC 8 at Chapel Hill, N.C. March 14, UNC 14, Notre Dame 11 at Notre Dame, Ind. March 12, Notre Dame 9, UNC 7 at Carson, Calif. March 11, Notre Dame 9, UNC 7 at Notre Dame, Ind. March 10, UNC 11, Notre Dame 8 at Chapel Hill, N.C. March 8, UNC 8, Notre Dame 6 at Chapel Hill, N.C. March 8, Notre Dame 9, UNC 7 at Notre Dame, Ind. May 6, UNC 9, Notre Dame 8 - overtime - at Chapel Hill, N.C. March 2, Notre Dame 10, UNC 9 - triple overtime - at Notre Dame, Ind. March 1, Notre Dame 11, UNC 10 at Chapel Hill, N.C. April 18, Notre Dame 15, UNC 14 at Notre Dame, Ind. April 23, UNC 17, Notre Dame 15 at Chapel Hill, N.C. May 22, UNC 13, Notre Dame 9 - NCAA Quarterfinal - at Columbus, Ohio April 22, Notre Dame 14, UNC 13 at Notre Dame, Ind. April 30, UNC 14, Notre Dame 10 - ACC Tournament championship - at Durham, N.C. REVIEWING 2017 REGULAR SEASON MEETING BETWEEN UNC AND NOTRE DAME: Bryan Costabile scored off an assist by Sergio Percovic with 2:44 to play in the fourth quarter to lift sixth-ranked Notre Dame to a victory over 16th-ranked North Carolina before an Arlotta Stadium record crowd of 5,000 fans Saturday afternoon, April 22, Notre Dame improves to 7-3 with the victory overall and 2-2 in the ACC. North Carolina falls to 6-7 on the season and 1-3 in the ACC. North Carolina next heads to the ACC Tournament next Friday where it will play top-ranked Syracuse at 6 p.m. at

10 Sophomore midfielder Justin Anderson had four points in UNC s win over Furman on February 10, 2018 and scored the game-winning goal in overtime. Koskinen Stadium in the semifinal round. Chris Cloutier led the Tar Heels offensively with a season-high four goals while Timmy Kelly had a pair of goals for UNC. Andy Matthews and Tanner Cook each scored one goal and had one assist. Mikey Wynne led the way for Notre Dame with five goals. Sergio Perkovic had three goals and two assists for Notre Dame and Brendan Gleason and Bryan Costabile each scored two goals and had one assist. Notre Dame outshot the Tar Heels and won the ground ball battle The Irish also were dominant in the face-off circle with 19 wins to just 11 for UNC. Brian Balkam made nine saves for the Tar Heels while Shane Doss had seven for Notre Dame. The Tar Heels stayed close for much of the way with just 13 turnovers as compared to 19 for Notre Dame. UNC forced seven failed clears by the Irish. After Timmy Kelly scored 48 seconds into the game, Notre Dame scored four of the last five goals of the first quarter. Jack Rowlett cut a Notre Dame lead to 3-2 with an unassisted goal off a face-off win Kyle Mathie is one of five seniors to serve as a team captain this year. He is a three-year veteran in Carolina s long stick defensive midfield corps. Carolina s NCAA Tournament Facts NCAA Championship Years 1981, North Carolina 14, Johns Hopkins 13 at Princeton, N.J., Attendance: 13,943 Coach: Willie Scroggs; Final Record: , North Carolina 7, Johns Hopkins 5 at Charlottesville, Va., Attendance: 10,283 Coach: Willie Scroggs; Final Record: , North Carolina 10, Virginia 9 (OT) at Newark, Del., Attendance: 9,765 Coach: Willie Scroggs; Final Record: , North Carolina 18, Towson 13 at Syracuse, N.Y., Attendance: 8,293 Coach: Dave Klarmann; Final Record: , North Carolina 14, Maryland 13 (OT) at Philadelphia, Pa., Attendance: 26,749 Coach: Joe Breschi; Final Record: 12-6 NCAA Runnerup Years 1993, Syracuse 13, North Carolina 12 at College Park, Md., Attendance: 20,117 Coach: Dave Klarmann NCAA Tournament Leading Scorers 1981, Michael Burnett, 15 points 1982, Dave Wingate, 11 points; Michael Burnett, 11 points 1986, Gary Seivold, 12 points 1991, Dennis Goldstein, 16 points 1993, John Webster, 15 points 2016, Chris Cloutier, 22 points NCAA Championship Game Most Outstanding Player Award Winners 1982, Tom Sears 1986, Gary Seivold 1991, Dennis Goldstein 2016, Chris Cloutier NCAA Tournament Appearances (31) 1976, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Record: (.550) 5 Championships, 1 Runnerup Finish, 7 Third-Place Finishes, 13 NCAA Final Fours with 6:41 left in the quarter before Mikey Wynne scored the second of his three first half goals with 11 seconds left in the period. Unassisted goals by Michael Tagliaferri and Andy Matthews brought Carolina even at 4-4 with 11:06 left in the second quarter but Notre Dame answered with three goals in a span of 3:27 to go up 7-4 on a Mikey Wynne goal at 6:29. UNC s Chris Cloutier scored with three seconds left in the half off an assist by Tanner Cook to pull the Heels within 7-5 at the half. It marked the 17th straight game in which Cloutier has scored a goal, the sixth longest streak in the country. The Tar Heels played a back-and-forth third quarter with UNC outscoring Fighting Irish 4-3 to cut the lead to a single goal going into the final quarter. The Tar Heels tied the game at 8-8 on a goal by Tanner Cook with 11:05 left in the third quarter before Notre Dame s Mikey Wynne scored back-to-back goals to give Notre Dame a 10-8 lead with 4:31 left in the third period. North Carolina then scored four goals in a row to take its biggest lead of the Career Points at Carolina Name, Years Played G A Pts 1. Joey Sankey ( ) Marcus Holman ( ) Jimmy Bitter ( ) Bruce Ledwith ( ) Bert Fett ( ) Michael Burnett ( ) Dennis Goldstein ( ) John Webster ( ) Merrill Turnbull ( ) Billy Bitter ( ) Luke Goldstock ( ) Mac Ford ( ) Jed Prossner ( ) Brendan Carey ( ) Chase Martin ( ) Bart Wagner ( ) Gavin Petracca ( ) Jeff Sonke ( ) Spencer Deering ( ) Matt Crofton ( ) Chris Cloutier (2015-Active) Michael Thomas ( ) Gary Seivold ( ) Mike McCall ( ) Harper Peterson ( ) Chad Tutton ( ) Ryan Blair ( ) Pat Welsh ( ) Jason Wade ( ) Ryan Wade ( ) Steve Speers ( ) Mark Phillips ( ) Joey Seivold ( ) Steve Pontrello ( ) Justin Bowman ( ) Sean DeLaney ( ) David Wingate ( ) Kevin Griswold ( ) Thomas Wood ( ) Bryant Will ( ) Brent Voelkel ( ) Dan Cox ( ) Ben Hunt ( ) Tim Welsh ( ) Austin Garrison ( ) Peter Voelkel ( ) Dan Donnelly ( ) John Szczypinksi ( ) Joe Yevoli ( ) Mike Acee ( ) Jimmy Dunster ( ) Doug Hall ( ) Jeff Homire ( ) Gregg Langhoff ( ) Monty Hill ( ) Neill Redfern ( ) Monty Hill ( ) Dan Levy ( ) Steven Will ( ) John Donato ( ) Pat Foster ( ) Andy Matthews (2016-) game at with 10:20 left in the match. Chris Cloutier scored two goals in that run and Justin Anderson and Tate Jozokos also scored for the Tar Heels. But UNC s lead was short-lived. Successive extraman goals by Notre Dame tied the game and then Sergio Perkovic put the Irish ahead with 7:01 to play with the

11 Most Career Goals Scored Name, Years Played Goals 1. Bert Fett ( ) Jimmy Bitter ( ) Joey Sankey ( ) Marcus Holman ( ) Luke Goldstock ( ) Jed Prossner ( ) Mac Ford ( ) John Webster ( ) 109 Chris Cloutier (2015-Active) Dennis Goldstein ( ) Chad Tutton ( ) Jeff Sonke ( ) 102 Mike McCall ( ) Merrill Turnbull ( ) Harper Peterson ( ) 99 Billy Bitter ( ) Chase Martin ( ) Jason Wade ( ) Bart Wagner ( ) 94 Gavin Petracca ( ) Ryan Wade ( ) David Wingate ( ) 90 Justin Bowman ( ) Matt Crofton ( ) 86 Steve Pontrello ( ) Bruce Ledwith ( ) Michael Burnett ( ) Michael Thomas ( ) Steve Speers ( ) Gary Seivold ( ) Brendan Carey ( ) Mark Phillips ( ) Spencer Deering ( ) Sean DeLaney ( ) Joey Seivold ( ) Dan Cox ( ) Kevin Griswold ( ) 66 Pat Welsh ( ) 66 Thomas Wood ( ) Ben Hunt ( ) Monty Hill ( ) 62 Tim Welsh ( ) Jeff Homire ( ) John Szczypinski ( ) Ryan Blair ( ) 59 Michael B. Burns ( ) Terry Martinello ( ) Neill Redfern ( ) Mike Acee ( ) 54 Jimmy Dunster ( ) Brent Voelkel ( ) Doug Hall ( ) 52 Ousmane Greene ( ) 52 Austin Garrison ( ) Michael Tagliaferri ( ) Dan Levy ( ) 50 three goals coming in a span of just three minutes. William Perry tied the game for Carolina at 5:56 but UNC had only one possession the remainder of regulation. Costabile s game-winner came at 2:44 and the Irish basically possessed the ball from that point on to seal the win. CAROLINA VERSUS NOTRE DAME IN 2017 ACC TOURNAMENT CHAMPI- ONSHIP GAME: Led by Chris Cloutier s Most Valuable Player performance, the #18 North Carolina Tar Heels defeated #6 Notre Dame Sunday afternoon, April 30, 2017 in the ACC Championship men s lacrosse title game at Koskinen Stadium on the Duke University campus. A crowd of 2,325 fans was in attendance to see the #4 tournament seed Tar Heels down the #3 seed Fighting Irish just eight days after Notre Dame had defeated Carolina in the regular-season meeting between the two teams in South Bend, Ind. Cloutier, who had three goals and two assists in the championship game, was joined on the All-Tournament Team by senior attackman Luke Goldstock, senior long-stick midfielder Jack Lambert and sophomore attackman Andy Matthews. With the win, the Tar Heels become NCAA Tournament selection eligible at 8-7, winning their first ACC championship since Notre Dame falls to 8-4 on the season. It was the 13th ACC men s lacrosse championship overall for the Tar Heels. They won conference titles in 1981, 1982, 1985 and 1988 when the league crowns were based on the regularseason standings. UNC has won ACC Tournament titles in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2013 and Coach Joe Breschi s Tar Heels jumped out of the gate with four goals in a row and held at least a two-goal lead the rest of the game. After that initial scoring run by the Tar Heels, the closest the Fighting Irish could get was 4-2 early in the second frame and 8-6 heading into the fourth quarter. But UNC senior Stephen Kelly won 10 of 11 face-offs in the fourth quarter and the Tar Heels outscored the Fighting Most Career Caused Turnovers Name, Years Played Caused Turnovers 1. Ryan Flanagan ( ) Austin Pifani ( ) Michael Jarvis ( ) Tim Kaiser ( ) Evan Connell ( ) Kieran McDonald ( ) Charlie McComas ( ) 43 Mark Staines ( ) Michael Burns ( ) Jake Bailey ( ) Ryan Kilpatrick ( ) 35 Jack Rowlett (2016-Active) 35 Career Face-Off Winning Percentage Player, Year Pct. 1. Jude Collins ( ) Jason Sanders ( ) Shane Walterhoefer ( ) Kevin Frew ( ) Donnie McNichol ( ) Steve Gilhuley ( ) Ryan Wade ( ) Steve Stenersen ( ) Justin Bowman ( ) R.G. Keenan ( ) Ryan Damon ( ) Craig Hasslinger ( ) Stephen Kelly ( ) Mac Hammer ( ).526 UNC VS. NOTRE DAME ALL-TIME SERIES (UNC leads 9-8) 1995 H W A W H L A W N L A L H W H W A L H W 9-8* 2013 A L 9-10@ 2014 H L A L H W N W 13-9% 2017 A L N W 14-10^ Overtime ^ACC Tournament %NCAA Tournament Irish 6-4 in the final quarter to pull away for the win. Luke Goldstock led the Tar Heels with four goals, all in the fourth quarter. The four goals for Goldstock give him 118 career goals. He is now fifth all-time in Tar Heel history. Marcus Holman ( ) is in fourth place with 121 career goals. With four points in the game, Goldstock moved past both Mac Ford and Jed Prossner into 11th place in career points with 176. Billy Bitter ( ) ranks 10th with 178 career points. Chris Cloutier had three goals and two assists in the championship game. He had all of his goals in the first half, pacing the Tar Heels to a 7-3 lead at intermission. He then assisted on back-to-back goals by Goldstock in the fourth quarter that gave UNC its third five-goal lead of the game at 13-8 with 6:52 to play. With his five points in the game, Cloutier ran his career total to 102, becoming the 42nd Tar Heel in history to hit the century mark in points. Cloutier finished the tournament s two games with nine points (6 goals, 3 assists) while Goldstock had eight points in two games (6 goals, 3 assists). Sophomore Andy Matthews had a goal and three assists in the semifinals against Syracuse and again in the championship game against Notre Dame. All earned their way onto the All-Tournament Team. Freshman William Perry had two goals, both on the extra-man, and an assist in the championship contest while Justin Anderson, Timmy Kelly and Tanner Cook each had a single goal. Senior long-stick defensive midfielder Jack Lambert was one of the heroes of the weekend for the Tar Heels as he had two goals in the semifinal win over Syracuse and a goal and two assists in the championship game victory over Notre Dame. Coming into the weekend, Lambert had a single point in his career, a goal earlier this season against Maryland. Brendan Gleason led Notre

12 Most Assists in a Career Name, Years Played Assists 1. Bruce Ledwith ( ) Michael Burnett ( ) Joey Sankey ( ) Marcus Holman ( ) Brendan Carey ( ) Dennis Goldstein ( ) 82 Jimmy Bitter ( ) John Webster ( ) Merrill Turnbull ( ) Spencer Deering ( ) Billy Bitter ( ) Ryan Blair ( ) Bart Wagner ( ) Bert Fett ( ) Chase Martin ( ) 63 Matt Crofton ( ) 63 Gavin Petracca ( ) Gary Seivold ( ) Michael Thomas ( ) Mac Ford ( ) Pat Welsh ( ) Jed Prossner ( ) Bryant Will ( ) Jeff Sonke ( ) 55 Luke Goldstock ( ) Andy Matthews (2016-) 50 Dame with his first career hat trick. Bryan Costabile had two goals and an assist for the Irish. Stephen Kelly came back from a rough first half to end the game with 11 ground balls and a 14 of 26 performance at the face-off X. He won 10 of 11 face-offs in the fourth quarter, allowing the Tar Heels to dominate possession and protect and extend their lead. Kelly has now won 711 face-offs in his career (12 behind career leader Shane Walterhoefer who had 723 from ). Kelly has 374 career ground balls, the third most in UNC history. Tar Heel redshirt junior goalkeeper Brian Balkam made 11 saves for the Tar Heels in the victory while Shane Doss had 12 saves for the Fighting Irish. UNC outshot the Fighting Irish Notre Dame had a edge in ground balls. Both teams won 14 face-offs. UNC committed 15 turnovers and was 21 of 25 in the clearing game. Notre Dame was guilty of 13 turnovers and was 17 of 19 in the clearing game. UNC went 3-for-5 on extra-man opportunities while Notre Dame was 1-for-6 on the EMO. Carolina continued to perform well offensively against the Fighting Irish who have surrendered their two highest goal totals of the season to UNC with 14 tallies against them on Sunday and 13 against them on April 22 in the regular-season meeting. The Tar Heels started the game on a four-goal scoring run in the opening 7:17 of the game. Andy Matthews scored an unassisted goal 58 seconds into the match to draw first blood. Carolina earned a man-up opportunity after a holding call on Mikey Wynne and converted on it with a goal by William Perry, assisted by Matthews, with 11:34 left in the first quarter. Cloutier started his hat trick off an assist by Perry with 9:42 left in the period and two minutes later the Tar Heels scored in transition with Lambert scoring his third goal of the weekend off an assist by Michael Tagliaferri. After Notre Dame scored the next two goals, UNC ran off three straight goals to go up 7-2. Justin Anderson tallied unassisted with 11:41 left in the second period before Chris Cloutier scored his second goal of the contest, assisted by Matthews, at 9:20. Cloutier finished off his first-half hat trick with an unassisted goal at 4:36 of the period and Drew Schantz answered for Notre Dame 34 seconds later, making it 7-3 Tar Heels at halftime. Timmy Kelly opened the scoring for UNC in the second half but after his goal at 12:49 at the third quarter, the Tar Heels would be kept off the scoreboard for over 13 minutes. Meanwhile, the Irish put three goals on the scoreboard, including a pair in the last minute and a half of the third quarter. With its lead cut to just two goals heading into the fourth quarter, UNC responded with three goals in a span of 2:19 early in the fourth quarter. Tanner Cook scored a man-up goal at 14:20 after claiming a loose ball on the crease. That was followed up by a Luke Goldstock transition goal off an assist by Jack Lambert at 13:19. Carolina earned another man-up situation shotly afterwards and William Perry converted for the second time on the man advantage, again off an assist by Matthews. Perry s goal proved to be the eventual game-winner and it put UNC up 11-6 with 11:07 to play. It was the second of three times UNC would lead by five in the contest. Notre Dame answered with two goals just 41 seconds apart to pull within 11-8 but Goldstock and Cloutier would make sure the Irish would get no closer. Goldstock scored back-to-back goals off Cloutier assists at 8:07 and at 6:52 of the final period. Goldstock would go on to score once more, again in transition off an assist by Lambert, at 2:27. The ACC championship was one of three won on Sunday by the University as women s lacrosse defeated Syracuse for its second straight conference championship and the women s tennis team downed Georgia Tech to also claim a second straight ACC title. POTENTIAL STARTING LINEUP: North Carolina s tentative starting lineup against Notre Dame could look something like the following: Attack #15 Timmy Kelly (Jr.), #45 Chris Cloutier (Sr.), #12 Andy Matthews (Jr.) Attack Reserve #55 Matt Cunningham (Sr.) 1st Midfield #1 Alex Trippi (Fr.), #3 William Perry (So.), #32 Matt Gavin (So.) 2nd Midfield (All 5 of these players are expected to see action in different combinations) #16 Sean Morris (Fr.), #77 Tanner Cook (So.), #11 Brian Cannon (Sr.), #31 Steven Schneider (Fr.), #17 Ryan O Connell (Fr.) Short Stick Defensive Midfielders #11 William McBride (Sr.), #28 Cam Macri (So.), #40 Cole Haverty (Jr.), #19 Timmy Gehlbach (Sr.), #23 Parker Alexander (Fr.) Long Stick Defensive Midfielders #4 Jack Halpert (Jr.), #88 Kyle Mathie (Sr.), #0 Jake Peden (Jr.) Face-Offs #26 Charles Kelly (Jr.), #17 Ryan O Connell (Fr.), #25 Riley Graham (Sr.), #22 Jack Rowlett (Jr.) Close Defense Starters #22 Jack Rowlett (Jr.), #20 Ryan Macri (Sr.), #43 Michael Nathan (Jr.) Close Defense Reserves #0 Jake Peden (Sr.), #29 Patrick Lyons (So.), #50 Kevin Walker (Jr.) Goalkeeper #48 Alex Bassil (Jr.) Backup Goalkeepers #34 Luke Millican (Fr.), #42 Jack Pezzulla (So.) UNC HEAD COACH JOE BRESCHI: Joe Breschi, UNC Class of 1990, leads the Tar Heels in his 10th season at Carolina. Breschi is in his 10 years at Carolina, a winning percentage of 66.3 percent. He also coached 11 years at Ohio State and is overall in 21 seasons as a collegiate head coach. His overall winning percentage at Ohio State and UNC combined is 62.9 percent. On April 9, 2017, UNC head coach Joe Breschi won Junior Chris Cloutier was the Most Outstanding Player of the 2016 NCAA Final Four weekend and the Most Valuable Player of the 2017 ACC Championship. He has 147 career points, 109 career goals and 38 career assists heading into the Notre Dame game.

13 his 100th game at Carolina. His 100th win as the Tar Heel head mentor came in Carolina s victory against Virginia at Klockner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. His 200th overall coaching victory came in a 9-8 victory over St. John s on March 3, 2017 in Kenan Stadium. Breschi Coaching Facts: in 10 seasons at UNC (66.3) in 21 seasons overall (62.9) in one-goal games at UNC 7-7 in overtime games at UNC versus ranked teams at UNC; 51-8 versus unranked teams at UNC versus non-conference teams at UNC in home games at UNC UNC VERSUS RANKED OPPONENTS UNDER COACH BRESCHI: North Carolina has played nationally-ranked (based on the USILA coaches poll) opponents 104 times in Joe Breschi s 10-year coaching tenure. UNC is in those games, a winning percentage of 54.8 percent. Conversely, and as would be expected, the Tar Heels are 51-8 against unranked opponents in Breschi s 10 seasons for an outstanding winning percentage of 86.4 percent. Breschi is overall at Carolina in his 10 seasons as head coach. During Breschi s tenure, UNC s only losses to unranked teams came at Ohio State in 2011, at home to Lehigh in 2012, at Pennsylvania in 2012, at home to Hofstra in 2016, at Massachusetts in 2016, at home against Hofstra in 2017 and at Hofstra and at Richmond in TAR HEELS IN OVERTIME UNDER BRESCHI: Carolina s loss against Syracuse on April 14 marked the 14th time the Tar Heels have played an overtime match in Coach Joe Breschi s 10 seasons as head coach. UNC is 7-7 in those 14 overtime contests. Carolina has won four of the last six games that have gone to extra time dating to a win at Duke on April 1, CAROLINA S IMPROVEMENT IN ONE- GOAL DECISIONS: Prior to Joe Breschi taking over as head coach in 2009, UNC went just 1-7 in games decided by one goal from midway through the 2004 season through the end of the 2008 campaign. Carolina has improved tremendously in one-goal games since Breschi arrived for the 2009 season. UNC is in games decided by one goal over the past 10 years with Breschi at the helm, a winning percentage of 52.1 percent. UNC is 3-3 in games decided by one goal in the 2018 season with wins over Furman, Lehigh and St. John s and losses to Richmond, Duke and Syracuse. NEW HOME PLAYING VENUE FOR 2018: At the conclusion of the 2017 lacrosse season, historic Fetzer Field was razed. Construction on a new Fetzer Field, which will house the men s and women s soccer and men s and women s lacrosse programs at Carolina, began in May The new Fetzer Field will reopen in fall 2018 at a date yet to be detemined. UNC men s and women s lacrosse will return to the new Fetzer Field in the spring of In the interim, North Carolina has played all eight of its home games in 2018 in Kenan Stadium, the Tar Heels historic football stadium which opened 91 years ago in All home games are free of charge in Fans are encouraged to sit on the North Side of the stadium in the new individual blue chair back seating and enter through gates 2 and 5 as stadium improvements are being made on the South Side of the stadium. Parking for weekend games is free in the Bell Tower Parking Deck. Parking will also be available in the Rams Head Parking Deck for an hourly fee on game days and for weekday games. The Rams Head Deck is on the East side of the stadium. Concessions on game days will only be available on the North Side of the stadium. Seating on the South Side of Kenan Stadium is not available the remainder of this spring as new seats are being installed in the historic football edifice. The original Fetzer Field was built in 1935 and had served as the home of the Tar Heel men s lacrosse program since 1949, its first varsity campaign. The original Fetzer Field was built as a Works Progress Administration program during the Great Depression. The original Fetzer Field housed the following sports: Track and Field Men s Soccer Men s Lacrosse Women s Soccer Women s Lacrosse TAR HEELS AT KENAN STADIUM: Because of field improvements last spring at Kenan Stadium, 2017 marked the first year since 2015 that the Tar Heels did not play a game at Kenan Stadium, the home of the football Tar Heels. UNC is back in Kenan Stadium on a full-time basis in 2018 for eight home games as the new Fetzer Field in being completed on campus. North Carolina had a 6-0 mark in games played at Kenan Stadium from after beating Notre Dame there on April 23, UNC s last loss in the Tar Heel football stadium came on April 7, 2018 when Virginia defeated the Tar Heels It marked just the second loss for Carolina at Kenan Stadium since April 26, 2009 when the Tar Heels lost to Duke at Kenan Stadium in the ACC Tournament championship game. The Tar Heels defeated Virginia twice (2013 ACC Tournament championship game & 2016 regular season game) and Duke (2013 ACC Tournament semifinals), Johns Hopkins (2013 regular season), Maryland (2014 regular season), Notre Dame (2016 regular season), Lafayette (2018 regular season), Furman (2018 regular season), Lehigh (2018 regular season), Mercer (2018 reguar season) and St. John s (2018 regular season) once each in the 12 games at Kenan Stadium played between March 30, 2013 and March 3, Since his arrival as UNC head coach for the 2009 season, Coach Joe Breschi s teams are 12-4 in games played in Kenan Stadium, winning 75 percent of their games there. UNC hosted the ACC Tournament in Kenan Stadium in both 2009 and 2013 during Breschi s tenure. UNC has won 12 of its past 15 games played at Kenan Stadium dating to the 2009 ACC Tournament semifinals against Maryland on April 24, 2009, losing only to Duke in the 2009 ACC Tournament finals, to Denver on March 5, 2018 and to Virginia on April 7, TWO TAR HEELS NAMED PRE- SEASON ALL-ACC: A pair of Tar Heel veteran players and two-year starters at their positions were named to the preseason All-Atlantic Coast Conference Team selected by the league s five head coaches and released by the conference office on Tuesday, January 30. Senior attackman Chris Cloutier and junior close defenseman Jack Rowlett were named to the preseason All-ACC Team. Both are entered their third years as starters for the Tar Heels in Cloutier was the Most Valuable Player of the 2017 ACC Tournament when the Tar Heels won their 13th league title in history. CLOUTIER NAMED TO TEWAARA- TON TROPHY WATCH LIST: University of North Carolina men s lacrosse senior attackman Chris Cloutier was named to the 2018 Tewaaraton Trophy Watch List on Thrusday, March 1. A total of 50 NCAA Division I men s lacrosse players were named to the list. Cloutier is Carolina s leading scorer in 2018 with 29 goals and 10 assists for 39 points. He is a senior from Kitchener, Ontario. He was the Most Valuable Player of the 2016 NCAA Tournament and the 2017 ACC Tournament. Cloutier was tabbed as a third-team USILA All-America attackman in CLOUTIER S GOAL SCORING & POINTS STREAKS: Senior attackman Chris Cloutier saw a 31-game goal scoring

14 CAROLINA LACROSSE IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT (33-27) Year UNC Seed Opponent & Seed Round Site Result 1976 #5 #4 Navy Quarterfinal Annapolis, Md. L #7 #2 Johns Hopkins Quarterfinal Baltimore, Md. L #5 #4 Navy Quarterfinal Annapolis, Md. W #1 Virginia Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. L (2OT) 1981 #2 #7 Syracuse Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 13-6 #6 Navy Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 17-8 #1 Johns Hopkins Championship Princeton, N.J. W #1 #8 Navy Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 16-2 #4 Cornell Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 15-8 #2 Johns Hopkins Championship Charlottesville, Va. W #5 #4 Army Quarterfinal West Point, N.Y. W 12-6 #1 Johns Hopkins Semifinal Baltimore, Md. L #5 #4 Virginia Quarterfinal Charlottesville, Va. W 11-2 #1 Johns Hopkins Semifinal Baltimore, Md. L #3 #6 Brown Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W #2 Syracuse Semifinal Syracuse, N.Y. L (OT) 1986 #5 #4 Maryland Quarterfinal College Park, Md. W #1 Johns Hopkins Semifinal Newark, Del. W 10-9 (OT) #3 Virginia Championship Newark, Del. W 10-9 (OT) 1987 #5 Michigan State First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W 21-5 #4 Johns Hopkins Quarterfinal Baltimore, Md. L #3 Cornell Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. L #6 Towson First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W 19-8 #3 Loyola Quarterfinal Baltimore, Md. W 12-5 #2 Johns Hopkins Semifinal College Park, Md. L #4 #5 Harvard Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 18-3 #1 Syracuse Semifinal Piscataway, N.J. L #1 #8 Loyola Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 11-9 #5 Syracuse Semifinal Syracuse, N.Y. W Towson Championship Syracuse, N.Y. W #2 Brown Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W #3 Princeton Semifinal Philadelphia, Pa. L #1 #8 Army Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 14-5 #4 Johns Hopkins Semifinal College Park, Md. W #3 Syracuse Championship College Park, Md. L #4 #5 Virginia Quarterfinal Chapel Hill, N.C. L Unseeded #8 Loyola First Round Baltimore, Md. L #4 #5 Syracuse Quarterfinal Piscataway, N.J. L Unseeded #7 Duke First Round Amherst, Mass. L #8 Ohio State First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W 13-6 #1 Johns Hopkins Quarterfinals Charlottesville, Va. L #8 Navy First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W 12-8 #1 Duke Quarterfinals Annapolis, Md. L #4 Navy First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. L #6 UMBC First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W #3 Duke Quarterfinals Annapolis, Md. L #4 Delaware First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W #5 Duke Quarterfinals Princeton, N.J. L #8 Maryland First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. L #8 Denver First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. L #5 Lehigh First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W 16-7 #4 Denver Quarterfinals Indianapolis, Ind. L Unseeded #5 Denver First Round Denver, Colo. L #3 Colgate First Round Chapel Hill, N.C. W #6 Maryland Quarterfinals Annapolis, Md. L Unseeded #6 Marquette First Round Milwaukee, Wis. W 10-9 #3 Notre Dame Quartefinals Columbus, Ohio W 13-9 #7 Loyola Semifinals Philadelphia, Pa. W #1 Maryland Championship Philadelphia, Pa. W (OT) 2017 Unseeded #8 Albany First Round Albany, N.Y. L streak come to an end in Carolina s loss against Virginia on April 7 at Kenan Stadium. With two goals against Maryland on March 24, Cloutier broke the school record for most consecutive games scoring a goal. He added to his streak by scoring three times against Duke on March 30. The previous school record was 29 games held by Marcus Holman. Holman s 29-game scoring streak began against Detroit Mercy on February 18, 2012 and extended through a game against Duke on April 26, During Cloutier s 31-game scoring streak (four games in 2016, 16 games in 2017, 11 games in 2018), he scored 83 goals, an average of 2.68 goals per game. Cloutier

15 CAROLINA LACROSSE IN THE ACC TOURNAMENT (21-19) Year UNC Seed Opponent & Seed Round Site/Result 1989 #2 #3 Virginia Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 7-5 #4 Duke Championship Chapel Hill, N.C. W #2 #3 Maryland Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. W 12-5 #1 Virginia Championship Charlottesville, Va. W #1 #4 Duke Semifinal Durham, N.C. W 11-8 #3 Maryland Championship Durham, N.C. W #1 #4 Virginia Semifinal College Park, Md. W 14-5 #2 Maryland Championship College Park, Md. W #2 #3 Duke Semifinal College Park, Md. W 13-6 #4 Maryland Championship College Park, Md. W #2 #3 Maryland Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. W 8-7 #1 Virginia Championship Charlottesville, Va. W #3 #2 Maryland Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W 14-9 #4 Duke Championship Chapel Hill, N.C. L #1 #4 Duke Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. W 18-8 #3 Virginia Championship Charlottesville, Va. W #4 #1 Virginia Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. L #4 #1 Maryland Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. L #4 #1 Duke Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. L #4 #1 Virginia Semifinal College Park, Md. L 16-17(2 OT) 2001 #3 #2 Duke Semifinal Orlando, Fla. L #4 #1 Virginia Semifinal Durham, N.C. L #3 #2 Virginia Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. L (OT) 2004 #2 #3 Virginia Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. L #4 #1 Duke Semifinal Baltimore, Md. L #3 #2 Maryland Semifinal Baltimore, Md. L #4 #1 Duke Semifinal Durham, N.C, L #4 #1 Duke Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. L #4 #1 Maryland Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W #2 Duke Championship Chapel Hill, N.C. L #2 #3 Maryland Semifinal College Park, Md. L #2 #3 Maryland Semifinal Durham, N.C. L #3 #2 Virginia Semifinal Charlottesville, Va. W 11-9 #1 Duke Championship Charlottesville, Va. L #2 #3 Duke Semifinal Chapel Hill, N.C. W #4 Virginia Championship Chapel Hill, N.C. W DID NOT QUALIFY 2015 #2 #3 Syracuse Semifinal Chester, Pa. L #1 #4 Syracuse Semifinal Kennesaw, Ga. L #4 #1 Syracuse Semifinal Durham, N.C. W #3 Notre Dame Championship Durham, N.C. W had the second longest active goal scoring streak in NCAA Division I lacrosse when it ended against UVA. Cloutier s goal-scoring binge began on May 14, 2016 against Marquette in the first round of that year s NCAA Tournament. Cloutier has recorded at least one point in 33 successive games. That is tied for the 11th longest point production streak in Tar Heel lore with a 33-game streak by Mac Ford (April 16, 1983 through May 19, 1985). During those 33 games, Cloutier has been responsible for 111 points on 84 goals and 27 assists. Cloutier s 33-game point streak is equal to the 12th longest streak amongst current streaks in NCAA Division I. CHRIS CLOUTIER ON CAREER CHARTS: Senior attackman Chris Cloutier (Kitchener, Ontario) has scored 109 career goals at Carolina heading into the Notre Dame game. Cloutier became the 14th player in UNC history to score 100 goals in his career when he tallied with 1:28 left in the third quarter in the March 5 game against Denver. Cloutier is in a tie for eighth place in UNC goal scoring history. John Webster also scored 109 goals in his career from Cloutier is currently in 21st place in points in Carolina history with 147. He has 109 goals and 38 assists in his career. Next up on the career points chart is Matt Crofton in 20th place with 149 points from KELLY NAMED ACC OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE WEEK ON FEBRUARY 26: University of North Carolina junior attackman Timmy Kelly of Lutherville, Md., was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Men s Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week on Monday, February 26. Kelly scored a career-high four goals as North Carolina earned a victory at No. 13/14 Johns Hopkins, giving the Tar Heels their fifth straight win over the Blue Jays in Baltimore. With the game tied at 9-9, Kelly put North Carolina ahead for good with a man-up goal with 8:11 left in the game. He scored again 15 seconds later to give the Tar Heels a two-goal lead and then scored with 5:09 left in the match for the eventual game-winning goal in UNC s victory. Kelly s previous career high was three goals in a game, achieved on a trio of occasions - once in 2017 and twice in CLOUTIER & KELLY NAMED TO Senior Brian Cannon rotates in the first and second midfield unit for the Tar Heels.

16 USILA TEAMS OF THE WEEK: The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association has instituted a 10-man National Team of the Week for the first time in The initial Tar Heel tapped for the team is senior attackman Chris Cloutier of Kitchener, Ontario. Cloutier was named to the team on February 12 after scoring five goals and adding an assist in the Tar Heels overtime victory over Furman. Cloutier forced overtime with a goal with 1:16 to play in regulation and sophomore Justin Anderson won the game for the Tar Heels 31 seconds into overtime. Timmy Kelly was named to the USILA Team of the Week on Tuesday, February 27. Kelly scored a career high four goals in Carolina s win at Johns Hopkins on February 23. With the game tied at 9-9 in the fourth quarter, the junior attackman scored three straight goals to put the Tar Heels up 12-9 en route to a triumph over the Blue Jays. PERRY LEADS NATION IN MAN UP GOALS: UNC sophomore midfielder William Perry is Carolina s most productive midfield scorer in 2018 with 21 goals and eight assists for 29 points. Perry leads the nation in man up goals with 10, nearly half of his 21 goal total. He has scored 10 of Carolina s 19 man up goals this season. Perry is the 15th highest scoring midfielder in the nation this year with his 21 goals. ANDY MATTHEWS ASSIST STREAK COMES TO END: Junior attackman Andy Matthews recorded at least one assist in 16 successive games before that streak was ended on March 10 against Hofstra. Matthews had begun his assist streak against Dartmouth on March 18, 2017 and it extended for 16 games through the contest against Denver on March 5, His 16-game assist streak equaled the fifth longest streak in UNC lacrosse history. Players with assist streaks longer than Matthews included Bruce Ledwith ( ) at 22 games, Michael Burnett ( ) at 21 games, Dennis Goldstein ( ) at 18 games and Joey Sankey (2015) at 17 games while Brendan Carey (1996) also had a 16 game assist streak. Matthews also recorded points in 19 straight games beginning on March 4, 2017 and extending through the game on March 5, With points in 19 straight games, Matthews recorded a streak that matched the 22nd longest streak in UNC history. Matthews curently ranks 62nd in career points at Carolina with a total of 70 points and he is 26th in career assists with 50. CAROLINA SQUAD CHOOSES FIVE CAPTAINS FOR 2018 TEAM: The University of North Carolina men s lacrosse program, under the leadership of Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi, elected five players to serve as team captains for the 2018 season. The 2018 Tar Heel team captains include: Senior attackman Chris Cloutier of Kitchener, Ontario Senior defenseman Joe Kenna of Chantilly, Va. Senior defenseman Ryan Macri of Hamilton, Mass. Senior defenseman Kyle Mathie of Smithtown, N.Y. Senior midfielder William McBride of Baltimore, Md. McBride is the second member of his family to serve as a Tar Heel captain. His brother Greg McBride served as a team captain in Macri served as a team captain on the Tar Heels ACC championship winning team in He is one of just eight individuals to serve as a team captain in multiple years for the Tar Heel program, joining the following players who were all two-time team captains in their own right. Ryan Macri, Austin Pifani, Mark Rizzo, Marcus Holman, Mike Munnelly, Austin Garrison, Joey Seivold, Lew Floyd, TAR HEELS ON TV IN 2018: Carolina will have four of its 14 regular season games televised on ESPNU in The second of the four games to air on ESPNU came last Friday when the Tar Heels played at fifth-ranked Duke. In addition to that, seven more games will be televised on ACC Network Extra with live streaming on WatchESPN and the ESPNApp. Games at Hofstra and Richmond and against Maryland were on other networks. The 2018 ESPNU schedule is as follows: Friday, February 23, 5 p.m., North Carolina at Johns Hopkins Friday, March 30, 5 p.m., North Carolina at Duke Saturday, April 14, 4 p.m., North Carolina at Syracuse Saturday, April 21, 12 p.m., Notre Dame at North Carolina The 2018 ACC Network Extra schedule is as follows: Saturday, February 3, 12 p.m., Lafayette at North Carolina Saturday, February 10, 12 p.m., Furman at North Carolina Saturday, February 17, 12 p.m., Lehigh at North Carolina Wednesday, February 28, 4 p.m., Mercer at North Carolina Saturday, March 3, 10:30 a.m., St. John s at North Carolina Monday, March 5, 4 p.m., Denver at North Carolina Saturday, April 7, 6 p.m., Virginia at North Carolina The UNC-Hofstra game was televised on LSN and Pride Productions. The UNC-Richmond game was televised on NBCSW+ and NBCSPhiladelphia+. The UNC versus Maryland game aired on YouTube. TAR HEELS IN THE POLLS: North Carolina entered the 2018 season coming off an 8-8 campaign in 2017 in which it won the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament championship and earned an NCAA Tournament bid for the 11th straight season. Carolina began the 2018 campaign ranked ninth in the Inside Lacrosse Maverik preseason media poll. Coach Joe Breschi s Tar Heels were also ranked ninth in the preseason United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association preseason coaches poll. The first regular season polls were released on February 12. After starting the season 6-7, Carolina is currently receiving votes in the USILA coaches poll. The Tar Heels have been ranked in the USILA poll every week since the 2007 preseason poll except on three occasions - March 26, 2018, April 9, 2018 and April 16, CAROLINA PICKED TO FINISH THIRD IN ACC: The North Carolina men s lacrosse team was picked to finish third in the Atlantic Coast Conference in The preseason poll voted on by the league s five head coaches was released on Tuesday, January 30. The Tar Heels Senior Matt Cunningham came off the bench to score two goals in UNC s game at Hofstra and then notched a career high five goals against Richmond four days later.

17 are the defending Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament champions after having finished fourth in last year s ACC regular season standings. Duke and Notre Dame are tied atop the 2018 preseason poll with 17 points each in the rating. The Tar Heels are picked third with 12 poll points. Syracuse is fourth with nine poll points and Virginia is fifth with six poll points. CONGRATULATIONS MARCUS: The U.S. men s lacrosse national team named its 23-player travel roster that will represent the United States in the Federation of International Lacrosse Men s World Championship July in Netanya, Israel. The U.S. team will again include 2013 University of North Carolina alumnus Marcus Holman, who also played on the National Team when the World Championships were held in Denver, Colo., in The U.S. Team won a silver medal in that event. 28 TAR HEELS NAMED TO ACC ACADEMIC HONOR ROLL IN : A record 385 University of North Carolina student-athletes were named to the Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, announced on July 13, 2017 by the league. It was the second year in a row and the fourth time in the past five years that UNC had established a new high and the fifth year in a row that more than 300 Tar Heel student-athletes have been honored. Coach Joe Breschi s North Carolina men s lacrosse team was responsible for 28 of the 385 Tar Heels on the Honor Roll during the last school year. Fifty-six percent of the team s 50 members were tapped for the Honor Roll. The ACC champion 2017 Tar Heels placed four more members on the team than the outstanding number of 24 tapped from 2016 s NCAA championship squad for the Honor Roll. Overall, the school year honorees included freshman Justin Anderson, senior Brian Balkam, sophomore Alex Bassil, junior Bug Carper, freshman Tanner Cook, junior Matt Cunningham, junior Mike D Alessandro, senior Luke Goldstock, junior Riley Graham, sophomore Jack Halpert, sophomore Cole Haverty, senior Stephen Kelly, sophomore Timmy Kelly, senior Peyton Klawinski, senior Jack Lambert, freshman Patrick Lyons, freshman Cam Macri, junior Ryan Macri, junior Kyle Mathie, sophomore Andy Matthews, junior Patrick McCormick, sophomore Michael Nathan, senior Austin Pifani, sophomore Jordan Prysko, senior Mark Rizzo, freshman Tyler Seminetta, sophomore Kevin Walker and senior Luke Walsh. CAROLINA S STELLAR MARK IN NON-CONFERENCE GAMES: UNC s record in non-conference games continues to be one of the best in the nation over the past 13 seasons, dating back to late in the 2006 season. The Tar Heels have won 106 of their last 135 games against non-conference teams dating back to April 15, 2006 when the Tar Heels beat Fairfield 18-9 at Kenan Stadium. In Joe Breschi s 10 seasons as head coach, the Tar Heels are a brilliant against non-conference teams, a winning percentage of 77.3 percent. The only non-conference losses were to Notre Dame in 2009, to Ohio State and Johns Hopkins in 2011, to Lehigh, Pennsylvania and Denver in 2012, to Massachusetts, Notre Dame and Denver in 2013, to Denver in 2014, to Maryland twice in 2015, to Hofstra, Denver, Massachusetts and Maryland in 2016 and to Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Richmond, Maryland and Albany in 2017 and to Denver, Hofstra, Richmond and Maryland in NEAR DOMINANCE AT HOME UNDER BRESCHI: UNC is in home games in Coach Joe Breschi s 10 years at the helm of the Tar Heels. That s a winning percentage of 79.3 percent. UNC s only home losses during Breschi s 10-year tenure include regular-season and ACC Tournament games to Duke in 2009, a regularseason loss to Duke in 2011, an NCAA Tournament loss to Maryland in 2011, regular-season losses to Lehigh and Virginia and an NCAA Tournament loss to Denver in 2012, a regular-season loss to Duke in 2013, a regular-season loss to Notre Dame in 2014, regular-season losses to Hofstra and Denver in 2016, regular-season losses to Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Richmond, Maryland, Duke and Syracuse in 2017 and regular season losses to Denver and Virginia in The Tar Heels had won 17 successive home games under Breschi s tutelage from before being upset at home by Hofstra on February 20, That 17-game home winning streak had begun against Bucknell with a 20-4 win on March 11, CAROLINA IN HOME GAMES: North Carolina has an all-time record of in home games. That included a perfect 11-0 record in In Joe Breschi s 10-year tenure as head coach, he has twice led Carolina to unbeaten records at home 7-0 in 2010 and 11-0 in Since 1949, UNC has had eight undefeated home seasons, two under the tutelage of Breschi. UNC has a 69.3 percent winning percentage all-time in history in home games. THE ALL-TIME RECORD: North Carolina has an all-time record of in the sport of men s lacrosse. That is a winning percentage of.624. The Tar Heels need eight wins to reach the 500-win plateau in school history. The team s 300th all-time loss came against Maryland by an 11-7 score on March 24, 2018 in Costa Mesa, Calif. CAROLINA S DOUBLE DIGIT SCOR- ING GAMES: In Coach Joe Breschi s 10 years as head lacrosse coach at UNC, Carolina s success has in large part been tied to hitting the 10-goal plateau in a game. In fact, UNC s loss to Syracuse on April 14, 2018, marked only the 21st time in Breschi s coaching tenure that the Tar Heels have lost when they have reached the 10-goal plateau. UNC has scored at least 10 goals in a game in 120 of 163 games under Coach Breschi s direction dating back to the opening game of the 2009 season. That s 73.1 percent of the time. Carolina is in those 120 games, a winning clip of.853. As would be expected, in the 43 games under Coach Breschi s tutelage in which the Tar Heels have not reached the 10-goal mark, UNC has not fared nearly as well as when it scores in double figures. In fact, the Tar Heels record in those 43 games is just 9-34, a winning percentage of.209. Carolina s last win in which it was held to single digits in goals came against St. John s 9-8 at Kenan Stadium on March 3, That marked the first game the Tar Heels had won in which both teams scored in single digits since downing Furman in a 7-3 decision on February 11, 2017 at Greenville, S.C. The 10 goals in the UNC-Furman game on February 11, 2017 were the fewest combined goals in a Tar Heel game since Februrary 13, 2010 when UNC beat Bryant 5-4 in Chapel Hill at Navy Field. In 2017, UNC was 6-3 when scoring in double digits and 1-5 when being held in single digits. The Senior Riley Graham is the winner of the Athletic Director s Scholar Athlete Award for the men s lacrosse team at Carolina during the school year.

18 Tar Heels are 5-4 in games in which they have scored in double digits in 2018 and 1-3 in which they have scored in single digits. UNC CLAIMS ANOTHER SEASON OPENING WIN: The Tar Heels beat Lafayette in their 2018 season opener on February 3. UNC has won every season opener since the 1999 season, running its streak to 20 seasons in a row with the win over the Leopards. Carolina s last loss in a season opener came on February 22, 1998 when the Tar Heels fell to Butler at Fetzer Field. CAROLINA VERSUS NUMBER ONE: During the 2017 season, North Carolina played against the team ranked #1 in the nation in the USILA coaches poll a total of three times. North Carolina played against the #1-ranked team in the USILA coaches poll that third time when it defeated Syracuse on Friday, April 28 in the ACC Tournament semifinals. That was also the 12th time UNC had played the nation s #1-ranked team since midway through the 2012 season. With a 13-9 victory over top-ranked Denver on March 4, 2017, the University of North Carolina recorded a victory against a team ranked #1 in the USILA coaches poll for the sixth straight year. UNC would go on to play Syracuse twice in the 2017 when the Orange was ranked #1, losing an overtime game in the regular season before winning against the Orange in the ACC Tournament semifinals. Since beating Johns Hopkins 13-9 on April 1, 2012 at the Meadowlands, UNC is now 8-4 against the nation s top-ranked teams in its last 12 games against teams ranked at the top of the USILA coaches rankings. Altogether, UNC played #1 teams thrice each in both the 2016 and 2017 campaign. According to research by UNC Athletic Communications, UNC is now all-time against teams ranked #1 in the USILA coaches poll after the April 28, 2017 victory against Syracuse. Carolina s first meeting against a #1 USILA ranked team came in Carolina has had wins against #1 teams in each of the six years from Those wins came against Johns Hopkins 13-9 on April 1, 2012, against Maryland 10-8 on March 23, 2013, against Maryland 11-8 on March 22, 2014, against Denver on February 27, 2015, against Notre Dame on April 23, 2016, against Maryland in overtime on May 30, 2016, against Denver 13-9 on March 4, 2017 and against Syracuse on April 28, Prior to the win against Johns Hopkins in 2012, Carolina had not beaten a #1-ranked team since April 6, 1996 when UNC beat Virginia at Fetzer Field. UNC VERSUS #1 TEAMS ALL-TIME IN USILA POLL (14-21) March 13, Maryland 16, UNC 8 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) May 24, 1980 Virginia 11, UNC 10, two overtimes (at Charlottesville, Va.) May 30, 1981 UNC 14, Johns Hopkins 13 (at Princeton, N.J.) May 21, 1983 Johns Hopkins 12, UNC 9 (at Baltimore, Md.) April 6, 1985 UNC 11, Johns Hopkins 10 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) May 19, 1985 Syracuse 14, UNC 13, overtime (at Syracuse, N.Y.) May 24, 1986 UNC 10, Johns Hopkins 9, overtime (at Newark, Del.) April 8, 1989 Johns Hopkins 16, UNC 10 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) May 26, 1990 Syracuse 21, UNC 10 (at Piscataway, N.J.) March 9, 1991 UNC 10, Syracuse 3 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) March 6, 1993 UNC 14, Syracuse 10 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) March 3, 1994 Syracuse 17, UNC 10 (at Syracuse, N.Y.) April 6, 1996 UNC 19, Virginia 18 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) March 12, 1997 Princeton 10, UNC 9 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) May 8, 1999 Loyola 10, UNC 7 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) April 19, 2002 Virginia 10, UNC 3 (at Durham, N.C.) March 29, 2003 Johns Hopkins 11, UNC 10 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) May 22, 2004 Johns Hopkins 15, UNC 9 (at Charlottesville, Va.) April 2, 2005 Johns Hopkins 7, UNC 5 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) April 8, 2006 Virginia 21, UNC 13 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) March 15, 2008 Duke 19, UNC 9 (at Durham, N.C.) April Virginia 11, UNC 10 (at East Rutherford, N.J.) April 10, 2010 Virginia 7, UNC 5 (at East Rutherford, N.J.) April 1, 2012 UNC 13, Johns Hopkins 9 (at East Rutherford, N.J.) April 7, 2012 Virginia 15, UNC 10 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) March 23, 2013 UNC 10, Maryland 8 (at College Park, Md.) March 22, 2014 UNC 11, Maryland 8 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) February 27, 2015 UNC 12, Denver 10 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) April 18, 2015 Notre Dame 15, UNC 14 (at Notre Dame, Ind.) March 5, 2016 Denver 13, UNC 12, Overtime (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) April 23, 2016 UNC 17, Notre Dame 15 (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) May 30, UNC 14, Maryland 13 - overtime, (at Philadelphia, Pa.) March 4, 2017 UNC 13, Denver 9 (at Denver, Colo.) April 15, 2017 Syracuse 12, UNC 11 overtime (at Chapel Hill, N.C.) April 28, 2017 UNC 16, Syracuse 15 (at Durham, N.C.-ACC Tournament Semifinal) THE FINAL GAME AT THE OLD FETZER: Fetzer Field had served as the primary home of the University of North Carolina men s lacrosse program since the varsity program s founding in Despite exhaustive efforts at research, an exact record for games played at Fetzer is not fully known or researchable due to gaps in athletic communications records from the 1940s to 1970s. The all-time home record for UNC lacrosse since 1949 was at the end of the 2017 season and now stands at overall. That includes games played at Fetzer Field, Kenan Stadium, Navy Field, Henry Stadium and Finley Field. Fetzer Field was built as a track and field facility in 1935 as a Works Projects Administration (WPA) project during the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Administration in the Great Depression. Over the decades, several more sports began to compete at Fetzer Field - men s soccer in 1947, men s lacrosse in 1949, women s soccer in 1979 and women s lacrosse in Fetzer Field was torn down in May A new soccer/lacrosse specific stadium is b being built on the same spot with opening planned for August 2018 in time for the 2018 men s and women s soccer campaigns. A new track and field facility is being built on Old Mason Farm Road in Chapel Hill near the Ronald McDonald House and a new field hockey stadium is being built on Ehringhaus Field. An indoor practice facility for foot- Andy Matthews leads the Tar Heel team in assists this season with 23 and he is second on the team in points with 30.

19 ball and outdoor football practice fields are also a part of the overall athletics construction project and those are located on the previous site of Navy Field and Henry Stadium. LOOKING FOR ANOTHER DOUBLE DIGIT WIN SEASON UNDER COACH BRESCHI: Despite playing against one of the nation s toughest schedules in 2016, the Tar Heels reached a double digit win total for the eighth successive year under the tutelage of head coach Joe Breschi, who was hired in June The win over Notre Dame on May 22, 2016 gave UNC eight successive seasons with 10 or more wins. Breschi was the first head coach in UNC history to post double digit win totals in each of his first eight years mentoring the Tar Heels. Other than Breschi, Dave Klarmann ( ) is the only other coach to win 10 or more games in each of his first four seasons as the Tar Heel head coach. Under Breschi s leadership, UNC went 12-6 in 2009, 13-3 in 2010, 10-6 in 2011, 11-6 in 2012, 13-4 in 2013, 10-5 in 2014, 13-4 in 2015 and 12-6 in The streak marked the first time that UNC has won 10 or more games in a season in eight straight years in Tar Heel history. UNC won 10 or more games in six straight seasons from , the first two seasons under head coach Willie Scroggs and the last four under head coach Dave Klarmann. After going 8-8 in 2017, the Tar Heels are off to a 6-7 start in Four more wins this season would give the Tar Heels 10 or more wins in a season for the ninth time in head coach Joe Breschi s 10-year coaching tenure. EARLIEST START TIME IN TAR HEEL HISTORY: The North Carolina versus St. John s game on March 3 faced off at 10:30 a.m. That was the earliest start time to a game in UNC men s lacrosse history dating back to the 1949 season. The previous earliest starting time to a game came on March 10, 2012 when UNC defeated Princeton 9-8 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, Md. That game started at 11 a.m. Almost excatly six years apart, both of those historically early games ended up in 9-8 Tar Heel victories in regulation time. EARLIEST GAME DATE WISE IN CAROLINA HISTORY: When North Carolina played Lafayette in Kenan Stadium on February 3, 2018, it marked the earliest date on which the Tar Heels have ever played a game in their history dating back to The previous earliest game ever played was on February 4, 2017 when UNC defeated UMBC 17-6 in Raleigh, N.C. at Cardinal Gibbons High School GAME SUMMARIES TAR HEELS IMPROVE TO 6-0 WITH WIN OVER ST. JOHN S: William Perry s goal from a near impossible angle with 6.8 seconds to play lifted the 10th-ranked University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team past St. John s 9-8 on March 3 at Kenan Stadium. In the process, the Tar Heels rewarded head coach Joe Breschi with his 200th collegiate career coaching win. He won 92 games in his 11 seasons as Ohio State s head coach from and Saturday s win was his 108th in 10 seasons with the Tar Heels. Perry s goal ended a scoring drought of 28 minutes and 45 seconds for the Tar Heels in the second half of the game. After leading at halftime 7-5, UNC s Timmy Kelly scored off an assist by Perry 1:08 into the second half to put the Heels up 8-5. But St. John s scored the next three goals of the game and tied the contest at 8-8 with 7:08 to play in the fourth quarter on an unassisted goal by Ryan Schaeffer. Both teams had opportunities over the next several minutes of the game before Jason DeBenedictis took a shot for the Red Storm with 34 seconds left in the game that went wide right. UNC s William McBride backed up the shot and the Heels successfully cleared the ball before Breschi called timeout with 19 seconds left. Coming out of the timeout, freshman Alex Trippi carried the ball to the center from the right side, dodged down the left side alley and fed Perry who was positioned at goal line extended 10 yards out on the left side. Perry stung the net into the upper right corner just inside the pipe to put the Heels up 9-8. Carolina then won the ensuing face-off off the stick of Charles Kelly with Jack Halpert on the ground ball pickup and the Heels killed the clock. North Carolina improved to 6-0 on the season for the first time since 2015 with the victory while St. John s fell to 2-2. Carolina now has a two-goal win against Johns Hopkins to go along with three one-goal wins this campaign, including a pair of overtime triumphs. Only two of Carolina s six wins have been by more than two goals. Eight different Tar Heels scored goals in the game with Perry scoring twice and adding an assist. Justin Anderson had a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels and Andy Matthews contributed a pair of assists. UNC outshot the Red Storm but struggled much of the day to get the ball Sophomore William Perry leads all Tar Heel midfielders with 21 goals and 29 points. He tops the nation with 10 man-up goals. He has scored more than one-half of UNC s man-up goals during the course of the 2018 campaign. past Red Storm goalkeeper Matt Hanley who played spectacularly. Hanley made 15 saves, including eight on 10 shots on goal by the Tar Heels in the second half. UNC goalkeeper Jack Pezzulla made five saves altogether. UNC s Charles Kelly won 12 of 21 faceoffs against a pair of St. John s face-off men. Kelly led the Tar Heels with five ground balls as the Tar Heels led the Red Storm in that category Timmy Kelly and Jack Rowlett each had four ground balls for Carolina. St. John s committed 12 turnovers and was 16 of 20 in the clearing game. Carolina had just eight turnovers and was 20 of 21 in the clearing game. Both teams had one extra-man opportunity with the Tar Heels scoring the only man-up goal of the contest. NOTING THE TAR HEELS Saturday marked the first ever meeting between North Carolina and St. John s. Chris Cloutier scored one goal in the game. He has scored at least one goal in 26 successive games. Cloutier s 26-game scoring streak is the second longest active streak in the country and it is now the third-longest goal scoring streak in UNC history. The only Tar Heels with longer goal scoring streaks are Marcus Holman at 29 games ( ) and Mac Ford at 27 games ( ). Andy Matthews had two assists against the Red Storm. He now has at least one assist in 15 successive games. That is the sixth longest assist streak in UNC history. Chris Cloutier has now scored 98 goals in his career. He is now tied for 16th in career goal scoring at Carolina. He is tied for 25th in career points at UNC with 130. Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi now

20 has 200 career wins on the collegiate level. He was in 11 seasons at Ohio State from Breschi is in 10 seasons at UNC. Carolina has won 106 of its last 131 games against non-conference opponents dating back to April 15, UNC has won 85 of 106 non-conference games since Breschi became the head coach in UNC is in games decided by one goal in Coach Breschi s 10-year tenure. The win marked only the ninth time in the last 40 games in which Carolina has scored in single digits and still prevailed. The last time came on February 11, 2017 when UNC beat Furman 7-3. TAR HEELS RACE PAST BEARS IN RETURN TO KENAN: Behind a six-goal effort by senior attackman Chris Cloutier, the University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team improved to 5-0 on the season with a 14-7 win over the Mercer Bears on February 28 at Kenan Stadium. Cloutier led the Tar Heels with six goals while eight other Tar Heels each scored a single goal. The six goals by Cloutier were the second most he has ever had in a game in his career, topped only by the nine goals he scored against Loyola in the NCAA Tournament semifinals on May 28, The win was the 199th of Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi s collegiate coaching career which includes 11 seasons at Ohio State and 11 years at North Carolina. He gets his first chance at win No. 200 Saturday when the Tar Heels host St. John s. Freshmen Alex Trippi and Sean Morris and sophomore William Perry joined Cloutier as Tar Heels with multiple points in the game. Trippi had a goal and two assists while both Morris and Perry had a goal and an assist. The Bears (1-4 on the season) got three goals from Scott Baird and a pair of tallies by Matt Quinn. The Tar Heels outshot the Bears in the match and the home side had a slight edge in ground balls at Junior Jack Halpert led the Tar Heels with a career-high six ground balls. Junior Charles Kelly won 14 of 21 faceoffs, the second most draws he has won in a game in his career. He also had five ground balls while Ryan Macri had four ground balls and Jack Pezzulla and Alex Trippi had three each. The only game in which Kelly has won more face-offs came against Lehigh on February 17 when he won 15. Kiel Brennan took all 24 faceoffs for Mercer, winning nine. Bradley Hodoval played all 60 minutes in goal for the Bears, making 16 saves while allowing 14 goals. Pezzulla started his third straight game in goal for the Tar Heels and played 47:53, making 10 saves and allowing just four goals. Junior Alex Bassil played the last 12:07 of the match and made four saves while allowing three goals. UNC was a perfect 17 for 17 in the clearing game while Mercer was 16 for 21. The Bears committed 12 turnovers while UNC had just 10 turnovers but five of those came in the fourth quarter when Mercer outscored Carolina 3-1. UNC s extra-man offense continued to thrive on the young season, going three for four. Mercer did not score on its four extra-man chances. After Tanner Cook of Carolina and Scott Baird of Mercer exchanged goals, Cloutier scored a man-up goal with 4:19 left in the first quarter, a tally which put the Tar Heels up for good in the game. Cloutier s goal was the first of eight successive tallies by Carolina. The Canadian senior had three of those eight goals. Mercer retaliated with a pair of goals before Cloutier finished the scoring in the first half with 55 seconds left, giving the Tar Heels a 10-3 lead at intermission. UNC outscored the Bears 3-1 in the third quarter with two of the three goals coming from Cloutier. UNC achieved its biggest lead of the game at 14-4 with 12:07 left in the fourth quarter on an extra-man goal by William Perry. Mercer scored the last three goals of the contest, including back-to-back goal by Matt Quinn at 5:53 and 3:01 of the final period. NOTING THE TAR HEELS Carolina played a season-high 34 players in the game. North Carolina improved to 2-0 alltime against Mercer. The Tar Heels won the previous meeting 20-7 on February 12, 2012 in Atlanta. Chris Cloutier scored six goals in the game. He has scored at least one goal in 25 successive games. Cloutier s 25-game scoring streak is the second longest active streak in the country and it is tied for the third-longest goal scoring streak in UNC history. The only Tar Heels with longer goal scoring streaks are Marcus Holman at 29 games ( ) and Mac Ford at 27 games ( ). Andy Matthews had one assist against the Bears. He now has at least one assist in 14 successive games. That is tied for the sixth longest assist streak in UNC history. Chris Cloutier has now scored 97 goals in his career. He is now 17th in career goal scoring at Carolina. He is now 26th in career points at UNC with 129. Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi needs one more victory to reach 200 career wins on the collegiate level. Carolina has won 105 of its last 130 games against non-conference opponents dating back to April 15, HEELS HIT ROAD AND EMERGE WITH COME-FROM-BEHIND WIN AT JOHNS HOPKINS: The 12th-ranked University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team never led until midway through the fourth quarter but three successive goals by junior attackman Timmy Kelly gave the Tar Heels the lead for good in an eventual victory over 13th-ranked Johns Hopkins before 1,383 fans and an ESPNU national television audience at Homewood Field on Friday evening, February 23. With the win, the Tar Heels started the season 4-0 for the first time since 2015 and Coach Joe Breschi s team has already won a two-goal game on the road and a pair of overtime games, playing extremely well in tight games in the young 2018 campaign. UNC has now won its last five games against the Blue Jays at Homewood Field and has cut the Blue Jays all-time lead in the series to Kelly notched a career-high four goals in the game, including three straight in the fourth quarter that broke a 9-9 tie and lifted the Heels to a three-goal lead. Sophomore midfielder Tanner Cook matched his career high for points in a game with five as he scored four goals, all in the first half, and added an assist. Chris Cloutier added two goals, running his goal scoring streak to 24 successive contests. Both Andy Matthews and William Perry had a goal and two assists. Matthews has now recorded assists in 13 consecutive games. Tar Heel sophomore goalkeeper Jack Pezzulla stood on his head for long stretches during the night, making a Sophomore Tanner Cook has started 12 games in the first midfield unit for Carolina. He has scored 15 goals this season, the fourth highest total on the team. career high 13 saves. Hopkins led 5-3

21 at the end of the first period but Pezzulla made five saves in the opening 15 minutes and prevented the early deficit from growing greater. Hopkins placed 10 of its 11 shots in the first quarter on goal and had leads of 2-0, 3-1 and 5-3 in the quarter. Hopkins led in most statistical categories except saves where Brock Turnbaugh had nine for the Blue Jays. Hopkins led in shots and in ground balls This marked the second straight game in which the Tar Heels have earned just 20 ground balls (Lehigh had 30 to UNC s 20 in the previous game), but in both cases UNC has pulled out tight victories. Hopkins face-off man Hunter Moreland was outstanding as he won 18 of 27 draws at the X and had a game-high 10 ground balls. Four of his nine losses at the X were due to face-off violations. Both teams committed 13 turnovers and both squads were excellent in the clearing game with just one failed clear each. UNC s extra-man offense, which has been a highlight of its early-season play, was three of four while Hopkins scored twice on four chances. Hopkins opened the game with a pair of goals in the first 1:15 of play before Tanner Cook got the Tar Heels on the board with 3:10 elapsed. After the Blue Jays again went up by two goals, tallies by Cook and Chris Cloutier tied the game at 3-3 with 5:41 left in the period. Hopkins, however, regained the momentum with unassisted goals at 1:05 and 0:14 of the period and led 5-3 at the first break. Cook scored back-to-back goals at 13:52 and 5:28 of the second period and the Heels were back in a tie at 5-5. Cole Williams put the Blue Jays back ahead 4:53 before halftime but he was called for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for tossing his stick in the air in celebration and Carolina capitalized with Kelly s first goal, an extra-man tally off an assist by Andy Matthews just 27 seconds later. Coming out of halftime, Hopkins seized the momentum. A pair of unassisted goals gave the Blue Jays an 8-6 lead 3:55 into the second half. Carolina bounced back and goals by Cloutier at 5:42 and by William Perry in a man-up situation with 2:27 left saw the game tied at 8-8 heading into the final period. Patrick Fraser regained the lead for Johns Hopkins with 12:39 left in the game with an EMO goal but momentum shifted to Carolina about three minutes later. An unassisted goal by Andy Matthews tied the game at 9-9 with 9:46 to play and started a four-goal run for the Tar Heels. At 8:11, Kelly gave UNC its first lead of the game, scoring man-up off an assist by Cook. Jack Rowlett then forced a turnover by Hunter Moreland eight seconds later and the junior defenseman fed Kelly for a two-goal lead with 7:56 to play. Charles Kelly was called for a penalty on the ensuing face-off but Pezzulla saved a shot by Fraser on the Hopkins EMO. UNC cleared the ball and called timeout and a minute and a half later, Kelly notched his fourth goal of the game to put the Heels up 12-9 with 5:09 to play. Hopkins scored a pair of goals to cut UNC s lead to with 3:06 to play. Carolina won the next face-off but turned the ball over and Hopkins had two shots to tie the game, both off cage, before Jack Keogh turned the ball over with 1:53 to play. After the Tar Heels were hit with a shot clock warning with 1:08 to play, Justin Anderson scored six seconds later to restore a two-game lead for the Tar Heels. Hopkins had two more shots and an EMO in the final minute but it turned the ball over with one second left. Next up for Carolina is a match against Mercer on Wednesday, February 28 at 4 p.m. at Kenan Stadium. Admission is free. The game will be webcast nationally on ACC Network Extra. NOTING THE TAR HEELS North Carolina improved to all-time against Johns Hopkins. The Tar Heels have won 10 of the last 12 meetings between the two teams and they have won the past five games between the two teams played at Homewood Field. Chris Cloutier scored two goals in the game. He has scored at least one goal in 24 successive games. Cloutier s 24-game scoring streak is the second longest active streak in the country and it is tied for the fifth-longest goal scoring streak in UNC history. Andy Matthews had two assists against the Blue Jays. He now has at least one assist in 13 successive games. That is the seventh longest assist streak in UNC history. Chris Cloutier has now scored 91 goals in his career. He is now tied for 20th in career goal scoring at Carolina with Ryan Wade ( ). He is now 28th in career points at UNC with 123. Tar Heel head coach Joe Breschi needs two more victories to reach 200 career wins on the collegiate level. He has 92 wins in 11 seasons as head coach at Ohio State and he has 106 wins in 10 seasons as head coach at North Carolina. Carolina has won 104 of its last 129 games against non-conference opponents dating back to April That s a winning percentage of 80.6 percent in those 129 games. Timmy Kelly scored four goals Timmy Kelly starts in the UNC attack unit with Chris Cloutier and Andy Matthews. He is currently fourth on the team in points with 27 and he ranks third on the team with 20 goals. against the Blue Jays, a career high. He had a trio of three-goal games previously in his career, against UMBC in his sophomore year and against Lafayette and Lehigh ealier this season. Kelly s four points matched his career high previously set against Virginia on April 10, 2016 and matched against Lafayette on February 3, 2018 Tanner Cook matched his career high for points in a game with five. He also had five points against Furman on February 10, 2018 Jack Pezzulla had a career high 13 saves. His previous career high was eight against Lehigh on February 17, TAR HEELS CLAIM THRILLING WIN AGAINST LEHIGH: For the second straight Saturday, the 13th-ranked University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team needed overtime to prevail in a barnburner as William Perry s fourth goal of the game with 36 seconds elapsed in extra time gave the Tar Heels a win over Lehigh before 826 fans at Kenan Stadium on February 17. Just seven days previous to that game, it was Perry s fellow sophomore first midfield line mate Justin Anderson who scored just 31 seconds into overtime to lift the Tar Heels past Furman at Kenan Stadium. With the win over the Mountain Hawks, the Tar Heels improved to 3-0 on the season while Lehigh fell to 2-1. Saturday s game marked the second straight Saturday in which the Tar Heels fell behind late in the fourth quarter, earned a tying score with less than 2 1/2 minutes remaining in regulation and then won the game in the first minute of overtime. William Perry had a career high four goals to lead the Tar Heels while Timmy

22 Kelly matched his career high for goals in a game with three and Andy Matthews equaled his career high for points in a game with five. Matthews had two goals and three assists in the game. Lehigh had two players combine for seven of its 11 goals as Andrew Pettit had four tallies for the Mountain Hawks and Tristan Rai had three goals. The Tar Heels ended the game with a shot advantage. North Carolina s Charles Kelly did yeoman s work in the face-off circle as he won 15 of 26 face-offs, including four of six wins in the fourth quarter and the face-off to begin overtime. He led the Tar Heels with six ground balls. Kelly s work at the X was a key factor in the Tar Heels win as the Mountain Hawks had an edge in most other statistics. Lehigh led in ground balls and it committed only seven turnovers compared to 11 for the Tar Heels. Both teams scored two extra-man goals and both squads were almost perfect in the clearing game as Lehigh went 15 for 16 and UNC went 19 for 21. Conor Gaffney had a game-high seven ground balls for the Mountain Hawks while Andrew Pettit had six ground balls to go with four goals and an assist. Both goalies played the entire 60:36 in the cage with Lehigh s James Spence making 11 saves and UNC s Jack Pezzulla notching eight saves. GAME OF RUNS ENDS IN OVER- TIME WITH TAR HEELS TOPPING PALADINS: The ninth-ranked University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team weathered a furious second half rally by Furman on February 10 to win on a Justin Anderson goal just 31 seconds into the sudden victory period at Kenan Stadium before a crowd of 845 rainsoaked fans. Anderson, a sophomore from Las Vegas, Nev., assisted on Chris Cloutier s game-tying goal with 1:16 left in regulation and then he scored the game-winner with 3:29 left in the first overtime period to lift the Tar Heels to 2-0 on the season. Despite trailing by six goals with less than four minutes left in the third quarter, the Paladins (now 0-2) scored eight of the next nine goals of the game and took a lead on an extra-man goal by Mike Liscombe with 2:09 to play in the fourth quarter. Senior attackman Chris Cloutier led the Tar Heels offensively with five goals and an assist while sophomore midfielder Tanner Cook scored five goals, including four in the first half, on just seven shots. The sophomore midfielder s previous career high for goals in a game was three the previous Saturday versus Lafayette. Justin Anderson had the game-winning goal and his three assists were a career high. He had never had more than one assist in a game in his career prior to Saturday. Sophomore midfielder William Perry had two goals and an assist for Carolina while Andy Matthews had a pair of assists and Timmy Kelly had a goal and an assist. UNC dominated the game statistically but it was never able to put the Paladins away in the second half. The Tar Heels outshot Furman 45-36, won the ground ball battle and was in control at the face-off X, winning 21 of 32 draws. But the Tar Heels committed 17 turnovers to just 14 for Furman and the Paladins made 13 saves in goal while a pair of UNC goalkeepers combined for nine. Both Charles Kelly and Riley Graham were above 50 percent at the face-off X to help lead Carolina to the win. Kelly won 11-of-14 draws and Graham won 10-of-18. The two Tar Heels tied for the game-high ground ball total on the day with six each. Cloutier had five ground balls for Carolina. The 11 face-off wins by Kelly versus Furman were the most he has had in a game in his career. His previous career high was seven versus Michigan on February 6, CAROLINA OPENS WITH WIN OVER LEOPARDS: Ten different Tar Heel players scored goals on February 3 as the ninth-ranked University of North Carolina men s lacrosse team defeated Lafayette in both team s season openers at Kenan Stadium. The Tar Heels balanced scoring effort was led by hat tricks by attackman Timmy Kelly and midfielder Tanner Cook as the Tar Heels won their season opener for the 20th year in a row in front of a crowd of 1,112 fans. Lafayette outshot the Tar Heels in the game and the Leopards won the battle at the face-off X by a margin of But Carolina shot the ball with more accuracy, tallying 17 goals on 27 shots on goal. While Carolina committed 16 turnovers, the Leopards had 24 turnovers and that negated much of the Leopards edge in face-offs. UNC had 33 ground balls to 29 for Lafayette. Seventeen different Tar Heels recorded ground balls for UNC led by Riley Graham with five and Ryan Macri with four. Jonathan Anastos played the whole game in goal for the Leopards and made 10 saves while allowing 17 goals. UNC played two goalkeepers. Freshman goalie Luke Millican played the first 50:48 and made eight saves while allowing seven goals. Jack Pezzulla played the final 9:12 in the cage and had three saves and three goals allowed. Carolina was led in scoring by Timmy Kelly and Chris Cloutier with four points each as Kelly had three goals and an assist and Cloutier rung up two goals and two helpers. Tanner Cook added a hat trick for Carolina and William Perry and Brian Cannon each scored twice. Freshman Colin Munro had a goal and an assist for the Tar Heels in his Tar Heel debut while Andy Matthews added a pair of assists for UNC. With two goals in the game, Chris Cloutier scored a goal in his 21st straight game, matching Jimmy Bitter for the seventh longest goal scoring streak in Tar Heel history. Andy Matthews had two assists for the Tar Heels and he has now posted helpers in 10 straight games, matching John Webster for the ninth longest streak in UNC history. Senior William McBride is one of five Tar Heel team captains and is UNC s top short stick defensive midfielder.