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Many are confused as to why the Virginia Cavaliers, while able to win national championships and stomp out seemingly anyone in their path, are unable to win against Duke. How does a team that loses 12 of 13 matchups to an ACC rival manage to win 2 national championships during that time, while the other only wins one? Read More...
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Six 2012 Tewaaraton Trophy nominees highlight this year’s All-ACC Men’s Lacrosse Team as announced today by the league office. The team is determined by a vote of the league’s four head coaches. Maryland leads all conference teams with four players recognized. Junior midfielder Jesse Bernhardt, who is on the Tewaaraton Watch List, is joined by teammates John Haus, Joe Cummings and Niko Amato. Cummings and Amato both repeat as members of the All-ACC Team. Read More...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - It was Atlantic Coast Conference men's lacrosse at its best as North Carolina edged Maryland 11-10 Saturday afternoon at Fetzer Field in a game that featured five ties and four lead changes. The Tar Heels trailed by two early in the fourth quarter before scoring five of the next six goals and then staving off a Maryland flurry in the final minute. Read More...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Marcus Holman and Thomas Wood combined for 11 points Wednesday afternoon tolead the 15th-ranked North Carolina men’s lacrosse team to a 13-10 victory over Dartmouth before 1,116 fans at Fetzer Field. Holman had a career-high five assists and matched his career high with six points while Wood scored four goals, the most he has scored in a game in almost two years. Read More...
The UNC Women's Lacrosse team made a music video set to the music of Carly Rae Jepsen's new hit song "Call Me Maybe." The girls did it really spur of the moment. It was inspired by Justin Bieber's version of the music video on YouTube. Read More...
BALTIMORE, MD. — Steven Rastivo made 16 saves to earn Most Valuable Player honors of the 2012 Konica Minolta Face-off Classic as eighth-ranked North Carolina defeated 14th-ranked Princeton 9-8 at M&T Bank Stadium. Princeton outshot the Tar Heels 43-22 in the game but Rastivo proved to be a stone wall in the cage to keep the Tigers at bay, including a seven-save performance in the fourth quarter alone. Read More...
Spring Break 2012 – no regrets. Year in and year out, everyone in the college community looks forward to the time in early March when school breaks. Most students head to the tropics. College lacrosse teams have a different agenda, though. This year, our Lehigh team hit the road with no drinks, no girls…nothing but a looming game against the #4 team in the nation: the UNC Tar Heels. Read More...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The Lehigh men’s lacrosse team scored four of the first five second-half goals to break a 5-5 tie, on the way to one of its biggest wins in school history as the Mountain Hawks downed the #4 North Carolina Tar Heels, 9-8 on Saturday evening. Junior Ryan Snyder won 13-of-20 faceoffs while three Mountain Hawks scored two goals apiece and freshman Matt Poillon made eight saves between the pipes. Read More...
Building, building, building…we’re constantly building. We build off each week and every game. There’s as much to take from a loss, as there is to take from a win. Last Saturday was a beautiful day, the sun was out and the weather was just right as we went up against UNC. Read More...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — University of North Carolina sophomore All-America attackman Nicky Galasso underwent surgery to repair a fracture in his left foot last Friday and will be sidelined for approximately two months, UNC head coach Joe Breschi and men’s lacrosse athletic trainer Nina Walker announced Tuesday. Read More...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Two seniors and one junior have been named as tri-captains of the 2011-12 University of North Carolina men's lacrosse team, head coach Joe Breschi announced Tuesday. The three captains were chosen by a vote of their teammates on Monday, the day after the conclusion of fall ball for the Tar Heels. Read More...
UNC has received new gear for the 2012 season and it does not disappoint. The team will be wearing Titanium CPXR helmets and lacing up in their choice of Nike Huarache III's or Nike Zoom Vapor Carbon LX cleats. Read More...