#2 Orange, #3 Tar Heels Meet on Senior Day

No. 2 Syracuse (14-2, 3-2 ACC) vs. No. 3 North Carolina (14-3, 3-2 ACC)
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The No. 2 Syracuse field hockey team (14-2, 3-2 ACC) closes out the regular season on Saturday when it hosts No. 3 North Carolina (14-3, 3-2 ACC) in a 1 p.m. game on Senior Day at J.S. Coyne Stadium.

• The No. 2 seed in the upcoming ACC Tournament is on the line as both teams are 3-2 in conference play. Duke, who plays at Maryland, is also 3-2.

• Syracuse is coming off a pair of wins last weekend at home, beating No. 16 Wake Forest, 4-1, and Cornell, 3-2, in overtime, running its home winning steak to 44 games. The Tar Heels are coming off a 2-1 win vs. No. 4 Connecticut and a 3-2 overtime loss at Old Dominion.

GAME COVERAGE

• Live stats of both games will be available at SUathletics.com.

• Fans can also follow the Orange on Twitter.com/CuseFH, the official Twitter home of Syracuse FIeld Hockey, or on Facebook at Facebook.com/SUfieldhockey.

SENIOR DAY

• Syracuse field hockey's senior class will be honored in a brief ceremony prior to the game (12:44 p.m.). Seniors Adrian Chambers, Anna Crumb, Leonie Geyer and Laura Hahnefeldt, as well graduate student Sarah Kerly, student assistant Mike Young, and second-year graduate assistant athletic trainer Jenny Russell will all be recognized.

HELLO ACC!

• Syracuse plays its inaugural season in the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2013. The Orange brings the nation's premier field hockey conference's total of programs to seven.

• All seven ACC teams are currently ranked in the NFHCA Top 20, including the top four teams and six of the top 10 (No. 1 Maryland, No. 2 Syracuse, No. 3 North Carolina, No. 4 Virginia, No. 7 Duke and No. 10 Boston College).

• ACC teams have been dominant in non-conference games this season, amassing a 71-7 mark for a winning percentage of .910.

• ACC teams have won 10 out of the last 11 national championships and had at least one team in the title game for each of the last 14 years.

ORANGE-HOT AT HOME

• The Orange has been dominating at J.S. Coyne Stadium since seventh-year head coach Ange Bradley took the reins in 2007 as it currently rides a 44-game home winning streak dating back to 2009.

• SU has outscored the opposition, 184-36, or an average score of 4.2-0.8, during the winning streak.

• In home games under Bradley (since 2007), Syracuse is 60-6 (.909) overall. That breaks down to 42-4 (.913) in non-conference games and 18-2 (.900) in conference games.

• The Orange is 8-0 at home this season, outscoring its opponents, 29-7. Last season, SU went 8-0 at home and outscored its opponents, 34-7. In 2011, Syracuse went 13-0 at home and outscored the opposition, 65-9.

• SU's last home loss was on Sept. 6, 2009 vs. No. 7 Princeton, 3-2, in overtime.

ORANGE RANKED NO. 2

• After moving up one spot to No. 3 last week, Syracuse moved up one more to No. 2 in this week's Penn Monto/NFHCA Division I Coaches Poll. It is the highest the Orange has been ranked since it was No. 1 for three weeks last season.

• The Orange started the season ranked No. 5 in the preseason poll, before slipping to No. 6 on Sept. 10, and had been ranked fifth for three weeks in a row before bouncing between third and fourth the last three weeks prior to this week.

TOP 10 STREAK REACHES 62 WEEKS

• The Orange has been ranked in the top 10 of the NFHCA poll for 62-straight weeks, dating back to Aug. 28, 2008.

• The Orange was ranked No. 1 for three weeks in 2012 after spending three weeks at No. 2, its highest ranking since reaching No. 1 for the first time in program history in 2008.

VS. RANKED OPPONENTS

• Syracuse is 6-2 against ranked opponents this season, most recently beating No. 16 Wake Forest, 4-1, on Oct. 26 at Coyne Stadium. The other wins came against No. 7 Massachusetts, 2-1, on Sept. 13, No. 6 Princeton, 4-0, on Sept. 22, No. 6 Stanford, 3-1, on Sept. 28, No. 4 Virginia, 4-1, on Oct. 5 and No. 7 Duke, 2-1, in double-overtime on Oct. 11.

• Syracuse is 49-55 against ranked teams since 2007, and is an impressive 23-8 in its last 31. SU was 10-2 in 2012 and was 7-4 in 2011.

• The only losses to ranked teams in 2012 were to No. 5 UConn, 4-3, in the BIG EAST Championship and to No. 1 North Carolina in the national semifinals. This season's losses were at No. 17 Boston College, 6-3, and at No. 1 Maryland, 2-1, in overtime on Oct. 18.

• The Orange is 23-34 against top 10 teams since 2007, including a 5-1 mark this year.

SERIES VS. NORTH CAROLINA

• Syracuse is 1-4 all-time against North Carolina.

• The team's met twice last season. On Sept. 1, 2012, Emma Russell scored off a penalty corner with 9:03 left in overtime to give No. 7 Syracuse a monumental 1-0 victory against No. 2 North Carolina at J.S. Coyne Stadium.

• It was the Tar Heels' only loss of the regular season and was the first time they had been shut out since 2009, 1-0, vs. Maryland in the ACC Tournament.

• The teams met again on Nov. 16, 2012 in the national semifinals in Norfolk, Va. with the Tar Heels winning, 6-1. Lauren Brooks scored the game's first goal 7:40 in, but UNC netted three goals in a 1:02 span late in the first half to take control of the game.

• UNC won a 2011 matchup in Chapel Hill, 3-2, that was the teams' first meeting since 1996.

SCOUTING THE TAR HEELS

• UNC, ranked No. 3 in this week's NFHCA poll, is coming off its third loss of the season, losing at Old Dominion on Sunday, 3-2, in overtime. Its only other losses were vs. Duke, 3-2, in double overtime on Sept. 27 and vs. Maryland, 2-1, in OT on Oct. 5.
• UNC leads the NCAA in goals per game (4.71), points per game (13.12), scoring margin (+3.48) and assists per game (3.71).
• Sophomore back Emily Wold leads the Tar Heels with 28 points on the season on four goals and an NCAA-leading 20 assists. Sophomore forward Casey Di Nardo is the top scorer with 12 goals on the year, closely followed by sophomore midfielder Nina Notman with 11 goals. Junior forward Charlotte Craddock (6 goals, 4 assists) is a returning first-team All-American from 2012.
• Goalkeeper Saski Ammer is gourth in the nation in goals-against average (1.04) and 15th in save percentage (.764).

BROOKS HONORED BY ACC

• Lauren Brooks was named ACC Co-Player of the Week on Tuesday after scoring a total of three goals, including both game-winners in the No. 3 Orange's victories vs. No. 16 Wake Forest and Cornell (OT).

• In Saturday's match vs. Wake Forest, the Lancaster, Pa. native set the tone early by scoring the game's first goal in the 12th minute on a nifty reverse-stick shot from the top of the circle in a match Syracuse went on to win, 5-2. On Sunday against Cornell, Brooks again scored the game's first goal, this time in the sixth minute, before netting the game-winner in overtime for a 3-2 Orange victory.

• Brooks has a team-high 12 goals on the season and leads Syracuse with four game-winning goals, two of which have come in overtime. Brooks also had the winning goal in overtime versus No. 7 Duke on Oct. 11.

• Brooks is the third Syracuse player to earn ACC weekly honors this season. She joins senior midfielder Leonie Geyer, who won the award on Sept. 17, and freshman forward Karlee Farr, who was honored on Oct. 15.

ORANGE TOPS BIG RED IN OT

• Lauren Brooks' second goal of the game came in overtime to give No. 3 Syracuse a 3-2 victory vs. Cornell (11-6) on Sunday afternoon. The junior won it for the Orange 9:12 into the extra period.

• The Big Red forced overtime with Elly Plappert's goal with 15:12 remaining in the second half. SU had led 2-0 until Marisa Siergiej put Cornell on the board in the 21st minute with a goal on a penalty corner.

• Brooks opened the scoring in the sixth minute and Serra Degnan scored for SU in the ninth minute.

'CUSE TOPS DEMON DEACS

• Emma Russell scored two goals and Karlee Farr had a goal and an assist as Syracuse beat No. 16 Wake Forest, 5-2, on Saturday at J.S. Coyne Stadium. Jess Jecko was strong in goal for SU, making seven saves.

• Lauren Brooks opened the scoring in the 12th minute off a Leonie Geyer assist. Just 55 seconds later, Russell netted her 10th goal of the season and added her 11th 3:13 into the second half.

• Freshmen Farr and Serra Degnan added second-half goals for the Orange.

FARR ON FIRE

• Freshman forward Karlee Farr scored goals in five-straight games between Oct. 6 and 26. She currently has a six-game point streak in which she has seven goals and one assist.

• Farr, of Mount Joy, Pa., was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Field Hockey Player of the Week on Oct. 15 after leading the third-ranked Orange to a pair of victories, including a 2-1, double-overtime league win over seventh-ranked Duke.

• Farr scored Syracuse's lone goal in regulation in the road match at Duke on Oct. 11. She followed up with the game-winning score in Oct. 13's come-from-behind 3-1 win over New Hampshire.

BRING YOUR HAT

• Big individual offensive efforts have become routine for the Orange in 2013 as three different players have recorded hat tricks with three-goal games.

• Junior forward Lauren Brooks was the first to accomplish the feat, scoring three goals to lead Syracuse to a 6-2 victory vs. Kent State at Michigan State's Ralph Young Field on Sept. 8. It's her career-high in goals.

• Next up was senior midfielder Leonie Geyer, who scored three goals, all on penalty strokes, to lead the Orange to a 4-1 victory over No. 4 Virginia on Oct. 5 at Coyne Stadium for SU's first ever ACC win. It was her second career hat trick. She scored four goals against Vermont in 2011.

• Syracuse's third hat trick came the day after the second as freshman Karlee Farr quadrupled her season goal total with three in the Orange's 8-1 win vs. Monmouth on Oct. 6 at Coyne Stadium. She came into the game with one career goal in 10 games played.

• Prior to the three hat tricks this season, Syracuse's last were when Geyer scored four and Heather Susek had three goals in a 12-0 win vs. Vermont on Oct. 16, 2011.

CLIMBING THE ALL-TIME CHARTS

• Leonie Geyer continues to climb the Syracuse all-time record book.

• Her 11-point performance on the weekend of Oct. 5-6 ran her career point total to 105, making her the fourth player in SU history to reach triple digits. Now at 107 points, she is five behind third-place Lindsey Conrad's (2008-10) 112.

• Geyer has 12 assists on the season, running her career total to 41, placing her third in Syracuse history. Next up is Maggie Befort (2007-11) with 48.

• With 10 goals this season, Geyer now has 33 in her career, putting her one spot out of the top 10 all-time at SU. Jodi Carter (1992-95), Kelly Hambleton (1996-99) and Megan Koons (1996-99) all had 34, tied for ninth.

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