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Ustby Leads WBB In Road Win Over Wake Forest – University of North Carolina Athletics
Senior Deja Kelly scored 15 points, added five rebounds and played all 40 minutes in the win. Junior Maria Gakdeng scored nine points on 4-6 shooting and also had seven rebounds.
Carolina is back in action on Thursday night, hosting NC State at Carmichael Arena for an 8 p.m. tipoff.
Although UNC’s final total of 58 points tied for the third-lowest score of the season, the team’s 52.4 shooting percentage was the year’s best. The Tar Heels were 22-42 from the field, taking their second-fewest shots of the year.
Carolina made its first five shots of the night – including Ustby’s three – and got putbacks on the first two misses to take an early lead. The visitors were up 20-8 after a quarter on 56.3 percent shooting (9-16).
The hot shooting continued in the second quarter, there just wasn’t much of it: Carolina took just eight shots in the period but made five (62.5 percent) and led 31-20 at halftime.
Wake Forest (4-22, 0-14 ACC) never led on its Senior Night, but did get as close as six points on several occasions after halftime. With nine minutes to play in the game, Kate Deeble’s layup made the score 41-35, but Ustby matched that with a layup of her own to again make the margin eight.
The Demon Deacons got that close again with 32 seconds to play, but Kelly hit two free throws with 28 seconds remaining for the final margin.
Elise Williams led the home team with 13 points, Deeble finished with 12 on 5-7 shooting off the bench, and Malaya Cowles added 10.
Carolina, which won its third in a row against Wake Forest, won the rebounding battle 40-27 and held a 34-22 scoring advantage in the paint.
While UNC was outstanding from the field, the Tar Heels had their worst free throw shooting night of the season, making 11-25 (44.0).
Friends and family members gathered in Washington state on Saturday, remembering former Miss North Carolina Carrie Everett, who died on Easter Sunday. Another memorial service is planned in North Carolina next month.
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Virginia 3, North Carolina 0 | First Quarter
Virginia 3, North Carolina 0 | Q1 8:19
After a faceoff win by Henry Metz, Brendan Millon finds Truitt Sunderland to give the Hoos a 3-0 lead. Timeout North Carolina.
Virginia 2, North Carolina 0 | Q1 9:00
Brendan Millon gets the scoring started for the Cavaliers with a question mark style goal. On the defensive end, Jake Marek opens the game with three early saves with his third save setting up a transition goal by Tommy Snyder.
Virginia vs North Carolina pregame notes
UVA owns a 59-33 advantage since the series began in 1938.
The 59 wins are UVA’s most against any opponent in program history (followed by 51 against Duke).
In Chapel Hill last year, the Tar Heels defeated the Cavaliers 18-9, snapping UVA’s six-game series win streak.
UVA has won nine of the last 11 meetings, dating back to 2018.
The Hoos have won the last two meetings with Carolina at Klöckner Stadium, 11-4 in 2022 and 14-6 in 2024.
The Tar Heels’ four goals in 2022 marked the fewest goals in a game under Joe Breschi, who was named UNC’s head coach in 2006.
The last time the Tar Heels knocked off the Cavaliers at Klöckner was a 16-13 decision during the first of three games between the two teams in 2021.
Later that year, UVA claimed back-to-back meetings against the Heels, including in the NCAA semifinals on the way to capturing the 2021 national title over Maryland.
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HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — Fire crews are responding to a brush fire near Howard Gap Road in Hendersonville on Friday evening.
The fire is across the street from the Ebenezer Baptist Church and near the Highlands Square Shopping Center.
Henderson County Fire Marshal Glen Gillette said crews are fighting “blowdown from Helene.”
NEW WILDFIRES IGNITE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA FOREST AMID WORSENING DROUGHT
Around 11 p.m., the fire appears larger than it did an hour ago because crews are backburning, which refers to using fire to help control the wildfire.
Dana Fire Department Chief Jimmy Womack said that what was a 3-acre fire an hour ago will be an 8-acre fire due to back burning. He said the fire is 80% contained.
Womack said the cause of the fire is unknown, but one of the conditions contributing to the blaze is the Helene blowdown.
“There’s a lot of blowdown in these woods behind us. That’s what creates most of the problem,” said Womack.
Womack said there has been no property damage and no injuries have been reported for this fire in the woods that 24 personnel are fighting. They got the call to arrive at 6:05 p.m.
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Dana Fire and Rescue and Henderson County Fire Department are supporting the U.S. Forest Service with this fire.
Glen said no structures are threatened at this time and Howard Gap Road is closed.
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