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Notre Dame Falls On The Road To No. 22 North Carolina
Chapel Hill, N.C. – Notre Dame girls’s basketball noticed its six-game profitable streak come to an finish in Sunday’s 60-50 loss to North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The Preventing Irish (12-2, 3-1) suffered their first ACC lack of the season, whereas the Tar Heels (10-5, 1-3) snap a four-game shedding streak.
Chilly taking pictures doomed the Irish all through the sport. They hit simply three of 17 pictures total and none of their 5 3-point makes an attempt within the first quarter to fall behind 7-0 early and eight for 30 within the first half.
Junior guard Olivia Miles led the Preventing Irish with 15 factors. The sophomore was 4 for five for 11 factors within the first half, whereas the remainder of the crew was 4 for 25 for 14 first half factors.
Junior guard Sonia Citron was the one different Notre Dame participant in double figures with 13 on 4 for 11 taking pictures. She scored 11 of her factors within the second half.
The one quarter Notre Dame outscored the Tar Heels was the second, once they had an 18-9 benefit after UNC led 13-7 on the finish of the primary interval. The 9 second quarter factors marked UNC’s second single digit quarter of the season. Their first was Thursday vs Miami.
Notre Dame was held to single digits in each the primary and third (9) durations.
Senior guard Dara Mabrey hit her solely 3 with 4:54 to play within the first half to present the Irish their first lead of the sport at 20-17. It was a part of a 7-0 run in :59 second stretch and 13-2 run over a four- minute span. For the most popular taking pictures stretch of the sport for Notre Dame.
Mabrey completed simply 1 for 11 from behind the 3-point arc, whereas the Irish had been a season-worst 2 for 22 of their first ACC lack of the season.
Notre Dame was down 39-35 going into the fourth quarter when Paulina Paris caught fireplace to maintain North Carolina within the lead. The freshman hit a runner and a pair of 3s to spice up the Tar Heel result in 48-40 with 6:18 remaining. She scored their first 11 factors of the quarter and ended with a game-high 16 factors.
The Irish used a 14-2 quick break factors benefit within the first half to ignite their offense, however they had been solely capable of muster 4 extra quick break factors within the second half.
Veteran heart Lauren Ebo posted a brand new career-high 19 rebounds within the recreation to assist the Irish win the battle of the boards 42-24.
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