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CARY, N.C. – Bitter rivals will clash one final time as top-seeded Duke faces second-seeded North Carolina in the Division I Women’s College Cup semifinals today – Friday, Dec. 6 – at WakeMed Soccer Park in Cary, North Carolina. The NCAA soccer match is available on multiple streaming services.
Today’s match will broadcast live on ESPNU at approximately 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Fans who have parted ways with their local cable provider can catch this game for free by utilizing streaming alternative DirecTV Stream, which offers a free trial. FuboTV is also offering $30 off your first month.
Sling TV is offering half off your first month. In order to watch ESPNU on this streaming service, you will need the Sling Orange + Blue package, or the Sling Orange package with the Sports Extra add-on for an additional $11 per month.
Finally, this match will also stream on ESPN Plus. You can get a subscription to ESPN Plus for $11.99 per month Another option is to sign up for an annual subscription for $119.99, which saves about 17% off compared to the monthly route.
After clinching the program’s first No. 1 overall seed, the Duke Blue Devils (18-2-1) are two wins away from their first ever Women’s College Cup championship. It’s the fourth time the two rivals will meet this season. North Carolina ousted Duke in the ACC tournament semifinals, but fell to the Blue Devils in both regular season meetings.
It’s only fitting the two must go through one another once more to punch their ticket for the national championship game.
Bolstered by a stellar defense, the Blue Devils have not conceded a goal this tournament. They defeated Howard (8-0), No. 8 Texas Tech (3-0), No. 5 Michigan State (2-0) and slipped past Virginia Tech (1-0) in a thrilling quarterfinal.
The Blue Devils have scored 14 goals in four games this postseason. Graduate midfielder Nicky Chico notched the lone goal in the win over the Hokies, marking a new single-season scoring record for the program at 68 goals.
This is Duke’s fifth appearance in the College Cup (1992, 2011, 2015, 2017 and 2024). Regardless of the outcome, 23-year head coach Robbie Church is set to retire after the conclusion of the historic campaign.
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North Carolina (20-5-0) holds the record for the most national titles, but has not won a championship since 2012. They return to the College Cup for a 32nd time and the fifth appearance in the last seven years.
The Tarheels handled their opposition to reach the semifinal stage, notching victories over USC Upstate (8-0), Santa Clara (1-0), No. 6 Minnesota (3-0) and a golden goal propelled them past No. 3 Penn State in the quarterfinals after a 1-1 draw.
The match was not without controversy as a video review overturned a first half goal from the Nittany Lions. North Carolina broke through with a Kate Faasse stunning header to send the Heels back to Cary. The junior midfielder leads the nation with 19 goals, including an incredible seven game-winning goals.
North Carolina owns the all-time series with a 44-6-5 record, but the Blue Devils are 3-4-3 in the last 10 encounters, signaling a shift in the lopsided rivalry.
Cary is 19 miles from Durham. It’s 22 miles from Chapel Hill. The rivalry is renewed in their own backyard. The winner will face No. 2 Wake Forest and No. 3 Stanford in the national championship on Dec. 9.
It is the first time that four teams from the same conference will compete in the final four of the Division I Women’s College Cup.
More information on how to watch the match on TV and streaming services:
- What: Women’s College Cup semifinal: Duke vs. North Carolina
- When: Friday, Dec. 6, 2024
- Time: 7:30 p.m. Eastern
- Where: WakeMed Soccer Park | Cary, North Carolina
- Channel: ESPNU
- Best streaming options: FuboTV ($30 off first month), DirecTV Stream (free trial) and Sling TV (promotional offers for new customers) and ESPN Plus
- Cable Channel Finder: AT&T U-Verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice, Cox, DirecTV, Dish, Verizon Fios
The North Carolina Tar Heels host the Virginia Tech Hokies on Saturday night at the Dean E. Smith Center in a monumental game for head coach Hubert Davis and his team. Here are quotes from this week that carry weight into this contest.
Seth Trimble’s Aggressive Mindset
- “The thing that I loved about him was he was thinking attack. He wasn’t coming off looking to pass,” Davis said. “One of the things that I’ve told him is when you come off a ball screen, you’re 100% thinking score, and then let the defense dictate whether you make a pass or you go to the basket. And Seth’s ability to be able to get downhill, he was able to score, draw fouls, just a huge difference maker for us.”
- “And I feel like now that Caleb [Wilson] has been out, he’s definitely been more of the go-to guy, and he’s had a lot more opportunities,” Henri Veesaar said. “I feel like he flipped a switch in the second half of Syracuse and that kind of just carried over, because he started being more aggressive, getting downhill, and that carried over into the next game.”
- “The coaches have been on me,” Trimble said. “I know I said it; I’ve said this over and over again, but they’ve been on me just to go and just finish, you know, coming off the ball screen, go, look to score, you know, don’t look to pass. Don’t look to make a play. Go to score. And then things are going to happen from that. And then I’m going to be able to kick out, going to be able to hit Henri [Veesaar].”
Defensive Fortitude
- “We were ready – just being ready on the defensive end and making them score over us,” Veesaar said. “I feel like on the defensive end most of the time, most of the games, we control the way we play, and as long as we don’t make any [mistakes]…today we were talking, communicating the whole game. So that was really good.”
- “It was a huge point to try and slow down Mikel [Brown Jr.] and [Ryan] Conwell,” Trimble said. “They’re two incredible guards, two of the best guards in the ACC. So, if you can shut them down, you can put yourself in a good position to win. Now, we didn’t necessarily shut them down, obviously, but efficiency wise, they didn’t have the best game, and it made it difficult. So, I think we did a good job.”
- “[With] so many gifted guys that can score in many different areas, one of the things that we wanted to do is just make every catch, make every move, make every shot difficult,” Davis continued. “And I just felt like throughout the game, they got worn down and tired. And I think that’s why a lot of their threes hit front rim or air ball, because of the fatigue.”
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GOLDSBORO, N.C. — A rancher in North Carolina had a nightmare experience in a car wash recently, when wire fencing sitting in the bed of his pickup truck got entangled in the rotating brushes.
Kyle Corbett shared video of the aftermath on TikTok, writing, “Lesson today is don’t go in the car wash with high tensile wire in the bed of your truck.”
“I needed to put up more fence for my cattle, so I purchased this reel of high tensile wire the night before, and the next day I went up town to take care of some business at the bank,” Corbett said. “I decided to run through the car wash ‘real quick’ and didn’t think about that wire.”
“I never use that truck for any work. I went to the car wash and the guys checked my truck out for safety. I went through and that’s when all hell broke loose,” he said.
“It wrapped up half of the fence in just a matter of seconds and beat the hell out of that car behind me. It sounded like a war zone,” he added.
“This is not good…yeah that’s terrible,” he says in the footage as he’s filming the mess.
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — Bourbon is more than a business for Jesse Carpenter — it’s a tribute to the city that shaped him.
“This is Durham. This is where I’m from. This is where I grew up,” said Carpenter, Chief Product Officer of Old Hillside Bourbon.
The company he co-founded with childhood friends takes its name and identity from one of Durham’s most iconic institutions-Hillside High School, one of the oldest historically Black high schools in the nation.
“We graduated Class of 1993 from Hillside High School,” Carpenter said. “Concord and Lawson Street. It’s the old Hillside.”
The idea took root during the pandemic when Carpenter proposed starting a bourbon company to those same friends.
“I had an idea to start a bourbon company, and they were on board,” he said. “Friends from 30 years ago, and now we’re doing this business together. It’s awesome.”
From 300 Cases to 10,000
What began as a pandemic-era idea has evolved into a rapidly growing business.
In its inaugural year, Old Hillside distributed 300 cases; this year, the company anticipates 10,000. The bourbon also earned Best in Show at the 2023 TAG Global Spirits Awards, impressing even the most discerning craft bourbon critics.
“Let me focus on the aroma — layers of oak, vanilla,” one reviewer commented on the Bourbon Banter YouTube channel, concluding with, “I think it’s a great taste.”
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A Bottle Full of Stories
Beyond its flavor, Old Hillside stands out for the history embedded in its label. Each vintage pays homage to a chapter of Black American history that might otherwise remain overlooked.
The inaugural bottle features a photo of the old Hillside High building, symbolizing the school’s deep community ties. A second flavor pays tribute to the African American jockeys who dominated the Kentucky Derby before the Jim Crow era effectively pushed them out of the sport. The company’s latest release honors the Harlem Hellfighters, the renowned all-Black military unit that served with distinction in World War I.
It’s a storytelling approach that Carpenter and his team are actively working to spread across North Carolina. Brand ambassadors Corey Carpenter and Amire Schealey are on the front lines of that effort.
“More bars and restaurants — tackling different markets,” said Corey Carpenter. Schealey added that the team is “setting up tastings at different ABC boards to build up our brand and presence around the state of North Carolina.”
Like many acclaimed bourbons, Old Hillside is distilled and bottled in Kentucky. But its founders are quick to point out where its true spirit comes from.
“Old Hillside is a lifestyle,” Jesse Carpenter said. “Not just a school-friendship and camaraderie. That’s what we do.”
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