No. 3 UNC Comes to Newton for Thursday Night Conference Clash

Thursday, October 17

Newton, Mass.

7:00 PM

Boston College

North Carolina

Emily Weintraub in action against Miami.

Photo by: John Quackenbos

No. 3 UNC Comes to Newton for Thursday Night Conference Clash

October 15, 2019 | Women's Soccer

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The Eagles will host the Tar Heels in an ACC clash that will be live on the ACC Network.

By: Athletic Communications

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will host third-ranked North Carolina on Thursday night at the Newton Campus Soccer Field. The conference clash will air live on the ACC Network. Kick off is scheduled for 7 p.m.

Boston College (8-4-2, 1-4-1 ACC) vs. No. 3 North Carolina (12-1-1, 5-0-1 ACC)
Thursday, Oct. 17 | 7 p.m.
Newton Campus Soccer Field | Newton, Mass.

A WIN OVER NORTH CAROLINA WOULD . . .
• Move the Eagles to 9-4-2 overall on the year and 2-4-1 in ACC play.
• Give Boston College an all-time record of 2-18-0 in the series with North Carolina.

ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA
• Third-ranked North Carolina enters Thursday night at 12-1-1 overall and 5-0-1 in ACC play after topping Pitt, 3-1, on Sunday afternoon.
• Brianna Pinto scored her team-leading eighth goal of the season in the win ... Pitt's goal marked the first allowed by UNC in ACC play this season ... it ended a 491 minute, 20 second shutout streak by the Tar Heels.
• Pinto leads UNC with 19 points on eight goals and three assists while Bridgette Andrzejewski has five goals and five assists for 15 points and Alessia Russo has six goals for 12 points.
• Marz Josephson and Claudia Dickey have split time in goal for the Tar Heels ... Josephson has played 740:00 minutes and holds a 6-1-1 record with a 0.24 goals against average and .889 save percentage ... Dickey has played 540:00 while holding a 5-0-0 record, .750 save percentage and 0.50 goals against average ... UNC has put up nine shutouts on the year.
• UNC's one tie on the year came at Duke on Oct. 10, with the ACC foes playing to a 0-0 tie ... the loss came in a 2-0 non-conference defeat at Arkansas back on Sept. 15.
• Anson Dorrance is in his 41st year as head coach at UNC ... he boasts an overall record of 847-74-40 ... UNC has won 21 NCAA national championships, 21 ACC Tournament championships and 22 ACC regular-season titles.
• The Tar Heels finished 2018 with an overall record of 21-4-2 and a 10-0-0 ACC record, good for first place.

SERIES HISTORY VS NORTH CAROLINA
• Boston College has a record of 1-18-0 in the all-time series against North Carolina.
• The squads first met in 1981, with the Tar Heels topping the Eagles, 8-1 ... the teams went on to meet three more times in the next eight years before a hiatus in the series until joining the ACC in 2005.
• The lone Eagles' win in the series came in 2010, with BC topping UNC, 3-2, in Chapel Hill ... a then fourth-ranked BC squad took down top-ranked UNC behind goals from Kristie Mewis, Alaina Beyar and Victoria DiMartino.
• In last year's meeting, UNC scored in the sixth minute for a 1-0 win at home ... it was the sixth game in the series that the Tar Heels won with a 1-0 score line.
• Ten of the 19 meetings have been decided by one goal and eight of the last 10 matches have been decided by one goal.

UP NEXT
• The Eagles will hit the road for two matches, traveling to Virginia Tech on Thursday, Oct. 24 and then over to Virginia for a game against the Cavaliers on Sunday, Oct. 27.
• BC's final regular season game will come at home on Thursday, Oct. 31 against Clemson.

LAST TIME OUT
• The Eagles battled Wake Forest to a 3-3 double overtime tie on Sunday afternoon in Newton.
• After Kayla Jennings scored exactly four minutes into the contest for a 1-0 BC lead, the teams were quiet until the 57th when Wake Forest equalized.
• Francesca Venezia's 78th minute strike then set off a string of four goals in 10 minutes ... each time BC scored, Wake Forest had an answer.
• Gianna Mitchell added BC's third goal of the afternoon but neither team found the net in the extra time and the game ended in a 3-3 tie.
• Goalkeeper Allie Augur finished with six saves for the Eagles ... it marked her fourth game this season with five-or-more saves.
• It was the first-ever tie in the series between Wake Forest and BC ... the Eagles now stand at 8-7-1 in the all-time series.

IT'S WORTH NOTING
• The Eagles have scored the first goal of the game in 11 of 14 contests this season.
• BC has 14 players with at least one point and 11 players with at least one goal ... BC's 11 different goal scorers on the year ties for the program's most in a single season since 12 Eagles scored in 2013.
• Sam Smith's eight goals is good for a tie for third overall in the ACC ... her three game-winning goals tie for third as well.
• Allie Augur's four shutouts on the season places her third overall in the conference.
• With her goal against Mississippi State on Sept. 15, Olivia Vaughn eclipsed 50 career points ... the senior now has 26 goals and seven assists for 59 career points ... Vaughn is BC's active career points leader.
• BC's four goals against FSU on Sept. 19 marked the most the Seminoles conceded in a match since a 4-3 loss to Notre Dame on Oct. 19, 2017.

ABOUT HEAD COACH JASON LOWE
• Jason Lowe was named the program's fifth head coach on Jan. 9, 2019.
• Lowe arrived on the Heights after serving on the coaching staff at Wake Forest since 2014, including 2017 and 2018 as associate head coach.
• The Shaker Heights, Ohio native helped the Demon Deacons reach the NCAA tournament Round of 32 in 2017 and the Sweet 16 in 2018.
• Prior to Wake Forest, Lowe served as an assistant coach at Alabama for five seasons and two years at Emory.
• Lowe served as a goalkeeper for the Wake Forest men's soccer team from 1994-97.
• In addition to receiving his bachelor's degree in 1998, Lowe also earned his MBA from Wake Forest in 2002.

SISTER TO SISTER
• Captain Kayla Jennings' goal against Wake Forest on Oct. 13 was assisted by her younger sister Jillian Jennings.
• It marked the first time that the Jennings sisters have teamed up for a goal.
• It was not the first time this year that two sisters combined for a BC goal ... in the Eagles' win over Miami on Sept. 26, Michela Agresti hit Samantha Agresti with a pass and Samantha Agresti in turn found Olivia Vaughn for a goal.

SPREAD THE WEALTH
• Through the first 14 games of the season, 14 different players have notched at least one point for the Eagles ... BC had 14 total point-getters in the 2018 and 2017 seasons.
• BC has 11 different goal scorers on the season and five players with multiple goals ... BC's 11 different goal scorers on the year ties for the program's most in a single season since 12 Eagles scored in 2013 (11 in 2018).
• Each class on the 2019 BC roster has contributed at least one goal so far this season.
• Through the first three games of the 2019 season, Boston College received goals from seven different players and at least one point from 11 different Eagles ... it marked the first time BC had at least seven different goal scorers through the first three games of the season since 2010 ... seven different Eagles found the back of the net through the first three games of that season that ended in the College Cup.

VALUABLE VAUGHN
• Senior forward Olivia Vaughn is BC's active scoring leader with 59 points on 26 goals and seven assists.
• Vaughn has notched two braces so far this season, doing it against UMass Lowell (Aug. 25) and Miami (Sept. 26) ... she now has six for her career.
• Vaughn recorded a career-high 21 points on a career-best 10 goals and one assist as a junior ... she also recorded a career-high 65 shots.
• Her four assists so far this season is a single-season career high ... her four assists also tie with Riley Lochhead for the team lead.
• The Montclair, N.J. native has played in all 73 of BC's contests since arriving on the Heights.

CAPTAIN CARREIRO
• Midfielder Gaby Carreiro has tied her career-high in goals scored this season with three.
• The tri-captain scored one against Boston University on Aug. 29 ... she has also gone 2-for-2 on penalty kicks, converting against Miami (Sept. 26) and Louisville (Sept. 29).
• Through 14 games, Carreiro has three goals and two assists for eight points ... her career high is 10 points, which came during the 2016 season on one goal and eight assists.