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BC Heads to North Carolina to Face #5 Duke, #3 UNC
September 19, 2022 | Women's Soccer
The Eagles will face #5 Duke on Thursday night before taking on the #3 Tar Heels on Sunday afternoon.
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will head to the state of North Carolina for two ACC contests against two top-ranked teams this week, facing #5 Duke on Thursday night before taking on the #3 Tar Heels on Sunday afternoon.
Both games will air on ACC Network Extra.
Game 10 | Boston College at #3 Duke
Thursday, Sept. 22, 2022 | 7:00 p.m.
Koskinen Stadium | Durham, N.C.
Game 11 | Boston College at #2 North Carolina
Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022 | 1:00 p.m.
Dorrance Field | Chapel Hill, N.C.
A WIN ON THURSDAY WOULD . . .
• Give the Eagles a 5-2-3 record on the year.
• Give Boston College a 1-1-0 record in ACC play.
• Bump BC to 5-12-3 in the all-time series with Duke including a mark of 1-7-1 on the road.
ABOUT BOSTON COLLEGE
• Boston College enters Thursday night with a 4-2-3 overall record and an 0-1-0 mark in the ACC.
• The last time out on Friday afternoon in Newton, the Eagles had a five-game unbeaten streak snapped by #12 Florida State.
• BC's only other loss on the season came at the hands of reigning Big Ten champion Michigan, 1-0, on Aug. 25.
• Overall, six different Eagles have scored in Sam Smith (5), Emily Sapienza (4), Ella Richards (3), Andi Barth (2), Claire Mensi and Sydney Segalla.
• Laura Gouvin leads BC in assists with three.
• Twelve total Eagles have at least one point while six Eagles have at least three points.
• Smith has a team-leading 10 points and five goals ... she also leads BC with 21 shots and 11 shots on goal.
• Goalkeeper Wiebke Willebrandt is 4-2-2 with a 1.56 goals against average, .720 save percentage, 36 saves and two shutouts.
• Head coach Jason Lowe is in his fourth season as head coach of the Eagles.
ABOUT DUKE
• Duke topped Syracuse, 1-0, in its ACC opener on Friday to move to 6-2-0 overall on the season.
• Michelle Cooper leads the Blue Devils in points (13) and goals (5) while nine total players have at least one point.
• Kat Rader and Maggie Graham have three goals each, with Rader adding an assist for seven points.
• All six of Duke's game-winning goals have come from a different player.
• Ruthie Jones has played the majority of minutes in goal for Duke, going 6-2-0 while making 15 saves and posting a 1.17 goals against average, .625 save percentage and two solo shutouts.
• Duke was tabbed first in the ACC Women's Soccer Preseason Coaches Poll.
SERIES HISTORY VS DUKE
• Boston College has a record of 4-12-3 in the all-time series with Duke ... the Eagles are 0-7-1 on the road against the Blue Devils.
• These two teams first met on Sept. 23, 1990 with Duke earning a 3-0 win.
• The Eagles and Blue Devils last met on Oct. 15, 2020 in Newton ... the squads fought through a scoreless regulation before Delaney Graham scored the game-winner in the 96th minute for the then No. 5 Blue Devils.
• The last time BC and Duke met in Durham came on Oct. 21, 2018, with the Blue Devils earning a 2-1 win.
• The Eagles have scored at least one goal in 12 of the 19 meetings with the Blue Devils.
ABOUT NORTH CAROLINA
• North Carolina will play at Syracuse on Thursday night before returning home to host Boston College on Sunday afternoon.
• The #2 Tar Heels sit at 7-2-0 overall and 0-1-0 in conference play after falling at Virginia, 3-2, on Saturday night.
• Avery Patterson has a team-leading six goals and 14 points to go with two assists ... Emily Murphy is second on the team in both points (11) and goals (4).
• Sixteen total Tar Heels have at least one point.
• Goalkeeper Emmie Allen has gone 6-1-0 for the Tar Heels, posting a .800 save percentage, 0.67 goals against average and one solo shutout to go with four combined shutouts with Marz Josephson.
• Anson Dorrance is in his 46th year of coaching soccer at UNC ... UNC has won 21 NCAA national championships.
SERIES HISTORY VS NORTH CAROLINA
• Boston College has a record of 1-21-0 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 Sam Smith score in the 50th minute to give the Eagles a lead that would hold until the 88th when Julia Dorsey scored ... the Tar Heels then found the 97th minute game-winning goal in the second extra time.
• Eleven of the 22 meetings have been decided by one goal and six of the last 10 matches have been decided by one goal.
IT'S WORTH NOTING...
• The Eagles have out-cornered the opponent in five out of nine games of the season and 56-41 overall, including a season-high 12 against Holy Cross on Aug. 28.
• BC has out-scored opponents 17-14 and out-shot opponents 115-94 through the first nine games.
• The Eagles have registered at least three shots on goal in nine contests this season and at least six in four contests ... BC's season-high of shots was 23 at Northeastern on Aug. 21.
• Sam Smith leads the Eagles in both points (10) and goals (5).
• In her first season as an Eagle, Emily Sapienza sits second on the team in scoring with nine points off of four goals and one assist.
UP NEXT
• After facing Duke and North Carolina, the Eagles will return home for two ACC games.
• BC will host Notre Dame on Thursday, Sept. 29 and then take on Syracuse on Thursday, Oct. 6.
