Wednesday, November 2
Chapel Hill, NC
6:00 p.m.
Boston College
at
North Carolina
Photo by: John Quackenbos
Eagles Head to Chapel Hill for ACC First Round Clash with UNC
October 31, 2022 | Men's Soccer
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – No. 10 seed Boston College travels to Chapel Hill to face No. 7 seed North Carolina in the ACC First Round on Wednesday night at 6 p.m. on ACC Network. The schools played to a 1-1 draw in the regular season on Oct. 21 in Newton. The winner will advance to play No. 2 seed Syracuse in the ACC Quarterfinal on Sunday in upstate New York.
LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College is coming off a 1-1 draw with No. 4 Syracuse on Friday night in the regular season finale at the SU Soccer Stadium
• BC extended its unbeaten streak against Syracuse to five games (3-0-2)
• Walker Davey scored his first career goal off a corner kick in the 12th minute, but the Orange tied the game on a penalty in the 65th
• Brennan Klein finished the night with five saves
ABOUT THE EAGLES
• Stefan Sigurdarson leads the ACC in total goals (12) and points (25)
• The senior, who scored last month against UNC, ranks fifth nationally in total goals and 10th in total points
• Amos Shapiro-Thompson had a career-best four-point performance against Endicott and ranks second on the team this season with seven points
• Brennan Klein has started 10 of the team's 15 matches in net and ranks fourth in the ACC with 3.1 saves per game
SERIES HISTORY
• Boston College is 4-12-2 against North Carolina entering the 19th all-time meeting and the fourth all-time matchup in the ACC Tournament
• The Eagles are 3-5-0 all-time in eight previous trips to Chapel Hill but won their last visit 1-0 in the 2016 ACC Quarterfinal on a goal by Zeiko Lewis
• North Carolina earned wins in the 2010 Semifinal and 2011 Title Game
• BC's two other road wins over the Tar Heels came in 2007 and 2009
CLIMBING THE RANKS
• Stefan Sigurdarson extended his career-high with his 10th, 11th and 12th goals of the season at home against Endicott on Oct. 24
• The hat trick moved Sigurdarson into a tie with Brian Siracusa for third place all-time on the program's single-season goals list
• His 28 career goals are tied with Charlie Rugg for sixth in program history and he trails Simon Enstrom by just two goals for fifth
• He ranks seventh all-time at BC in points with 64, eight behind Enstrom
• The Icelandic striker also ranks seventh in single-season points with 25, one shy of Alejandro Bedoya and Charlie Mundhenk for sixth
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LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College is coming off a 1-1 draw with No. 4 Syracuse on Friday night in the regular season finale at the SU Soccer Stadium
• BC extended its unbeaten streak against Syracuse to five games (3-0-2)
• Walker Davey scored his first career goal off a corner kick in the 12th minute, but the Orange tied the game on a penalty in the 65th
• Brennan Klein finished the night with five saves
ABOUT THE EAGLES
• Stefan Sigurdarson leads the ACC in total goals (12) and points (25)
• The senior, who scored last month against UNC, ranks fifth nationally in total goals and 10th in total points
• Amos Shapiro-Thompson had a career-best four-point performance against Endicott and ranks second on the team this season with seven points
• Brennan Klein has started 10 of the team's 15 matches in net and ranks fourth in the ACC with 3.1 saves per game
SERIES HISTORY
• Boston College is 4-12-2 against North Carolina entering the 19th all-time meeting and the fourth all-time matchup in the ACC Tournament
• The Eagles are 3-5-0 all-time in eight previous trips to Chapel Hill but won their last visit 1-0 in the 2016 ACC Quarterfinal on a goal by Zeiko Lewis
• North Carolina earned wins in the 2010 Semifinal and 2011 Title Game
• BC's two other road wins over the Tar Heels came in 2007 and 2009
CLIMBING THE RANKS
• Stefan Sigurdarson extended his career-high with his 10th, 11th and 12th goals of the season at home against Endicott on Oct. 24
• The hat trick moved Sigurdarson into a tie with Brian Siracusa for third place all-time on the program's single-season goals list
• His 28 career goals are tied with Charlie Rugg for sixth in program history and he trails Simon Enstrom by just two goals for fifth
• He ranks seventh all-time at BC in points with 64, eight behind Enstrom
• The Icelandic striker also ranks seventh in single-season points with 25, one shy of Alejandro Bedoya and Charlie Mundhenk for sixth
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