No. 3 UVA men’s lacrosse dominates No. 10 North Carolina 19-12

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – The No. 3 ranked UVa males’s lacrosse group dominated No. 10 North Carolina Friday evening in Chapel Hill beating the Tar Heels 19-2.

After UNC scored the primary purpose of the sport, Virginia’s Payton Cormier answered with a pure hat trick scoring the following three targets and UVa by no means trailed after that. Virginia constructed a 12-4 halftime lead and scored eight straight targets spanning each halves to construct a 16-4 lead.

Cormier had a game-high 5 targets. Xander Dickson added three targets.

“It was an important evening for Virginia Lacrosse,” stated UVa coach Lars Tiffany after the sport. “What actually typified it was the way in which we performed the bottom balls. We had been chopping. We had been working by means of floor balls, highlighted by Grayson Sallade’s floor ball early within the recreation. We had been going to slip, dive, combat – no matter we may. We’ve an important historical past of being tenacious off the bottom and we definitely demonstrated that immediately to present us these further alternatives.”

Virginia improves to 2-1 within the ACC and has now received 5 straight video games over North Carolina.

• Virginia improved to 58-32 within the all-time collection towards the Tar Heels, which started in 1938, and has now received eight of the final 9 conferences within the collection, together with the final 5.
• UVA’s 58 wins within the collection are probably the most over a single opponent in program historical past.
• The Cavaliers additionally tallied their fifth consecutive win at Dorrance Discipline, a streak that started in 2018.
• Virginia improved to 18-0 in video games following a loss (inside the identical season). UVA has not suffered back-to-back losses since 2017, Lars Tiffany’s first 12 months as Virginia head coach.
• The Cavaliers received their fourth recreation of the season away from Klöckner Stadium, together with their third true highway recreation.
• Lars Tiffany tallied his seventy fifth win as Virginia head coach. Tiffany is now 75-28 at UVA.

ADDITIONAL NOTES

• With two targets and two assists, Thomas McConvey prolonged his level streak to 62 video games. Having registered not less than one level in all 62 profession video games, McConvey’s streak is the longest amongst all energetic Division-I gamers. For his profession, McConvey has amassed 147 targets and 62 assists.
• With 5 targets and two assists, Payton Cormier prolonged his level streak to 37 video games. Throughout his streak, Cormier has registered 115 targets and 24 assists.
• With 141 profession targets in 48 video games, Cormier moved to No. 4 on UVA’s all-time targets checklist. Cormier entered Friday’s recreation tied for eighth.
• After being held scoreless in UVA’s final six video games, Petey LaSalla completed with two targets. UVA is now 23-3 all-time when LaSalla registers not less than one purpose, together with 4-0, in 2023.
• Virginia posted a 7-0 run within the span of 9:29 between the second and third durations.
• Attackman Connor Shellenberger missed the primary recreation of his profession attributable to a lower-extremity damage. Previous to Friday’s contest, Shellenberger had competed within the Cavaliers’ final 43 video games, together with 41 begins.
• Freshman Truitt Sunderland made his first profession begin at assault. Sunderland is the one freshman to start out in a recreation for the Cavaliers to date this season.
• Midfielder Peter Garno made his first begin of the season, the ninth of his profession.

UP NEXTThe Cavaliers return to the Previous North State to tackle Duke (10-1, 3-0 ACC) on Saturday (April 15). Opening faceoff from Koskinen Discipline is ready for 12 p.m. on ACC Community.

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