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Notre Dame Snaps North Carolina’s 27-Game ACC Streak
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Kasey Choma set the tone early — in each halves — and No. 12 Notre Dame by no means trailed in a 16-12 win over No. 3 North Carolina in South Bend, Ind. The win snapped the reigning nationwide champion Tar Heels’ Atlantic Coast Convention profitable streak at 27 video games, with the final loss additionally coming in South Bend, a 9-7 setback in 2019.
On Saturday, Choma scored simply over a minute into the competition to provide the Irish the early lead. North Carolina’s star freshman Marissa White tied it up quickly after, however then Notre Dame scored three straight objectives and led for the rest of the sport.
A aim by Madison Ahern with 31 seconds left within the first half gave Notre Dame a 9-4 halftime benefit.
Choma scored simply 44 seconds into the second half to provide the Irish a 10-4 lead, its largest benefit within the recreation.
North Carolina answered, scoring 4 straight objectives together with a pair of free place photographs by Caitlyn Wurzburger, to get inside 10-8 with 4:49 left within the third quarter. However the Irish would enable UNC to get no nearer. Again-to-back objectives by Kristen Shanahan and Choma put Notre Dame up 4 and Carolina (9-2, 5-1 ACC) trailed by at the least three the remainder of the way in which.
Ahern scored a game-high 5 objectives for Notre Dame (8-3, 4-2 ACC), together with three objectives within the fourth quarter to assist salt the sport away. Ahern now has 198 factors in her profession, together with 140 objectives.
Choma and Kelly Denes every had hat methods and Denes had eight draw controls, serving to Notre Dame to a big benefit within the circle (21-11). Mary Kelly Doherty had a aim, two assists and 9 draw controls for the Irish.
White and Wurzburger had been two of 5 Carolina gamers with a pair of objectives, becoming a member of Caroline Godine, Alyssa Lengthy and Sophie Pupil. Six of North Carolina’s 12 objectives got here on free place photographs.
Meaghan Tyrrell and Megan Carney mixed for 10 objectives and the Orange acquired a game-high 10 factors from Emma Ward in a 21-9 win over Virginia.
In one other nationally-ranked ACC showdown, No. 1 Syracuse stayed good on the season with a 21-9 victory over Virginia.
Virginia had a few leads early and trailed by only one aim after the opening interval, however Syracuse (12-0, 6-0 ACC) scored seven occasions within the second quarter to start placing the sport away.
Emma Ward (4g, 6a) had a career-high 10 factors for the Orange whereas Meaghan Tyrrell continued her torrid scoring tempo with six objectives and three assists. Tyrrell has 75 factors in simply 13 video games.
Morgan Schwab had a aim and 5 assists for Virginia (8-4, 4-2) and Ashlyn McGovern scored thrice.