The No. 7 North Carolina women’s lacrosse team (4-2) fell to the No. 5 Notre Dame (5-1) 7-5 in a tough Saturday morning match-up.
After numerous violations, turnovers, saves and missed shots from both teams, the game went scoreless for the first twelve minutes. Notre Dame’s Madison Ahren put the ball between the pipes on a free position shot after a violation on junior defender Adair Martin.
The first quarter saw no goals from UNC, but seven turnovers, four team fouls and three saves from junior goalkeeper Alecia Nicholas.
Halfway through the second quarter, Ahren scored again off of a high-soaring whipped ball that crashed through the pipes.
UNC graduate defender Gabi Hall fouled Notre Dame's Jackie Wolak, leading to a free position shot and causing a deficit of 3-0.
After graduate defender Emily Nalls gained the following draw control, senior midfielder Alyssa Long weaved through her defenders to obtain UNC’s first goal of the game.
North Carolina capitalized off of its next power play free position opportunity when first-year attacker Eva Ingrilli crashed the goal and soared the ball through iron bars.
The Tar Heels leveled the game when graduate attacker Ashely Humphrey assisted redshirt junior attacker Reilly Casey in a cut from behind the goal.
To begin the second half, Ahren scored her third goal of the game off of a free position due to a UNC violation.
