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Reporting A Score? | | | | | Archives | | |
| | | |  |  | | Virginia | 10 | | North Carolina | 7 | | | | Scoring: | Scoring: | Matt Ward
John Christmas
Joe Yevoli
Aj Shannon
Ned Bowen
Kyle Dixon
Chris Rotelli
| (2, 3)
(3, 1)
(2, 0)
(2, 0)
(0, 1)
(1, 0)
(0, 1)
| Mike Mccall
Steven Will
Scott Falatach
Ryan Blair
Kyle Bell
Lance Zimmerman
Jed Prossner
Austin Garrison
| (2, 0)
(1, 1)
(1, 0)
(0, 1)
(0, 1)
(1, 0)
(1, 0)
(1, 0)
| | | | Saves: | Saves: | Tillman Johnson
| 14 (0.667)
| Paul Spellman
| 18 (0.643)
| | | | Current Record : (6-2) | Current Record : (5-4) | | | | Team Page For 2003 | Team Page For 2003 | | | | | | The Game Story: | CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA-The Virginia men's lacrosse squad ended a
two-game losing streak with a 10-7 victory over North Carolina this
afternoon at Klöckner Stadium. The Cavaliers move to 6-2 overall this
season and 1-1 in the ACC. The Tar Heels, who could have clinched the
ACC regular season championship with a win, fall to 5-4 overall and
2-1 in the ACC.
Sophomore John Christmas led the Virginia attack with three goals in
his most productive outing in four games. Rookie Matt Ward added a
career-high five points on the strength of two goals and three
assists.
Junior Tillman Johnson was stellar in goal once again, turning back
14 Tar Heel shots, including at least five from within five yards.
The seven goals by the Tar Heels are their fewest of the season, the
fifth time this season UVa has held the opposition to its lowest
total of the year. It is also the fifth game in a row the Cavaliers
have allowed fewer than 10 goals, their longest streak in three years.
"We just tried to tell the guys to relax a little bit," said UVa head
coach Dom Starsia. "Confidence is a delicate thing with college kids,
and when you lose two games in a row, [you tend to lose it]. I
thought we looked very tentative in the first half. We weren't
hanging on to the ball, gave them failed clears, and just gave the
ball right back to them at times. After the first half, I just told
them to settle down and play the game like they're capable of playing
it."
Virginia, which had a dominant defensive performance throughout,
looked like a team that was unsure of itself early on. North Carolina
struck first only a minute into the game on midfielder Austin
Garrison's unassisted goal.
The Cavaliers quickly erased the deficit and bolted to a 4-2 lead at
the end of the first quarter. North Carolina outscored UVa 3-1 in the
second period as Tar Heel midfielder Steven Will scored with one
second left in the half on a dodge from behind the cage to knot the
score at five at halftime. Ward had a hand in three of UVa's first
half tallies, while Christmas notched the Cavaliers' first two goals
of the game.
The Cavaliers heeded their head coach's advice by scoring the first
three goals of the second half to take a lead they'd never
relinquish. Christmas started the run by taking a feed from
defenseman Ned Bowen and beating goalie Paul Spellman for UVa's third
fast break goal of the game. Freshman Kyle Dixon scored his first
goal in six games and was followed a short time later by Joe Yevoli's
second goal of the contest to push the Cavalier lead to 8-5.
North Carolina answered with an extra man goal by attackman Jed
Prossner with a minute left in the third quarter. After failed
attempts at both ends of the field during the next nine minutes, the
visitors found the back of the net again with 6:47 left in the game
on midfielder Lance Zimmerman's goal, which was set up by a deflected
shot from attackman Scott Falatach.
A.J. Shannon used his strength to overpower his defender for his
second score of the game to give the Cavaliers some breathing room
with 4:17 to go. Ward closed the scoring with an extra man goal with
3:13 left.
"I think one of the main things was the coach telling us to settle
down," said Cavalier defenseman Brett Hughes, who held Prossner,
UNC's leading scorer, to one goal. "Sometimes it takes us a half to
settle down. We didn't change anything on defense. Coach (Starsia)
just had to remind us to get back to what we've been doing all year.
When we've been successful, we're composed and not trying to do too
much and we're just trying to do the fundamentals."
Virginia travels to Duke next Saturday for a 2:30 pm match-up against
the Blue Devils at Koskinen Stadium. The Tar Heels stay on the road
with a 1 pm game at UMBC.
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