BC Hosts No. 5 UNC in Pink Card Match

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will host No. 5 North Carolina on Sunday at the Newton Campus Soccer Field. The conference clash will air live on ACC Network.

The game will mark BC's second annual Pink Card Match for breast cancer awareness. The team's pink game-worn pink jerseys from the game against UNC will be off, with the proceeds going to support the Mass General Brigham Auerbach Breast Center.

Game 14 | Boston College vs No. 5 North Carolina
Sunday, Oct. 10, 2020 | 1:00 p.m.
Newton Campus Soccer Field | Newton, Mass.

A WIN OVER NORTH CAROLINA WOULD . . .
• Move Boston College to 7-6-1 overall on the year and to 1-5-0 in ACC play.
• Give Boston College its second win in the series against North Carolina and move the Eagles to 2-20-0 all-time versus the Tar Heels.

ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA
• The Tar Heels enter Sunday's contest with an overall mark of 9-1-2 and a mark of 2-1-2 in ACC play.
• UNC last played on Thursday night at Pitt, coming away with a 1-0 win over the Panthers.
• Emily Murphy leads UNC in scoring with 12 points on four goals and four assists in nine games played ... Emily Colton has a team-leading five goals ... eight Tar Heels have recorded at least two goals each.
• Goalkeeper Claudia Dickey has played every minute for UNC, going 9-1-2 with a 0.56 goals against average, a 794 save percentage and six shutouts.
• UNC is 2-1-2 in its last five games, falling to Duke (1-0), tying Virginia Tech (2-2) and Virginia (0-0) while topping Clemson (3-0).
• Anson Dorrance is in his 45th year of coaching soccer at UNC ... UNC has won 21 NCAA national championships.

SERIES HISTORY VS NORTH CAROLINA
• Boston College has a record of 1-20-0 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.
• Last year's meeting in Newton saw a No. 1 UNC squad top the Eagles, 3-1 ... Jenna Bike scored for BC in the loss.
• Ten of the 21 meetings have been decided by one goal and six of the last 10 matches have been decided by one goal.

UP NEXT
• The Eagles will begin a three-game road trip with a 7 p.m. game at Louisville on Oct. 15.

LAST TIME OUT
• The Eagles took on No. 2 Virginia on Thursday night, falling 3-0 to the Cavaliers.
• The teams played an event first half but UVA took a 1-0 lead into the break thanks to a penalty kick conversion ... the visitors went on to add two more goals off of corner kicks in the second half.

IT'S WORTH NOTING
• BC has seven different goal scorers and 17 different point getters through the first 13 games of the season.
• Three Eagles have combined for six four-point games for BC this season, with Ella Richards doing it four times and Linda Boama and Samantha Agresti once each.
• Haley Thomas leads BC field players in minutes played with 1,118 and captain Michela Agresti is right behind with 1,117 minutes logged ... four other players have all put in at least 825 minutes in Sonia Walk (981), Samantha Agresti (853), Éabha O'Mahony (867) and Sarai Costello (825).
• Ella Richards ranks fifth in the ACC in points (20) and points and sits tied for fourth in goals (8).
• Linda Boama is sixth in the ACC in points (19) and points per game (1.58) while tying for fourth in goals (8) and fifth in goals per game (0.67).
• Wiebke Willebrandt's season and career-high 12 saves at No. 1 Florida State on Sept. 18 marked the second most in a game by an ACC goalkeeper this season.
• Willebrandt earned her first career win and shutout in her first career start with four saves at Iona on Aug. 19 ... the last Eagle goalkeeper to do the same was Erin Seppi against Stony Brook on Aug. 25, 2016.
• BC's 15 goals in the first four games marked the most for the team through the first four games of the year since BC scored 15 goals over the first four games of the 2015 season.

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
• The Eagles are a diverse group, having five different countries and 14 different states represented on the team roster of 28.
• The most represented state for BC is Massachusetts, which is called home by six players ... five Eagles hail from California ... 12 states can claim one Eagle each.
• Canada has two players represented while Iceland, Ireland and Germany each have one representative on the roster ... 23 players are from the United States.

2021 CAPTAINS
• The Eagles are led by Jenna Bike, Mia Karras and Michela Agresti in 2021.
• This is the second consecutive year that Bike and Karras are captaining the Eagles while Agresti is a first-time captain.
• In 2021, Bike started all 14 contests for the Eagles in her return to the pitch from injury ... the graduate student finished second on the team in scoring with 10 points on four goals and two assists.
• Karras, a graduate student, played and started all 14 of BC's contests last season.
• Agresti started all 32 game that BC played in her first two seasons on the Heights ... the defender has played at least 90 minutes in 31 of 32 games.

ACTIVE SCORING LEADERS
• Jenna Bike is BC's active scoring leader with 44 points on 17 goals and 10 assists.
• Sam Smith is the second-highest active scorer with 37 points on 16 goals and five assists.

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Players Mentioned

Michela Agresti

Samantha Agresti

Jenna Bike

Linda Boama

Sarai Costello

Mia Karras

Ella Richards

Sam Smith

Haley Thomas

Sonia Walk

Wiebke Willebrandt