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UNC Hosts High Point Saturday In NCAA First Round
November 6, 2017 | Women's Soccer
Carolina will meet Panthers at 1 p.m.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The University of North Carolina women's soccer team has earned a first-round host game in the NCAA Division I Women Championship and will play host to the High Point University Panthers Saturday at 1 p.m. at WakeMed Soccer Park's Koka Booth Stadium.
The Tar Heels earned the automatic bid from the Atlantic Coast Conference after beating Duke 1-0 Sunday in the ACC Tournament championship game in Charleston, S.C. That marked Carolina's first ACC Tournament championship since 2009. The Tar Heels are 15-2-2 this season. High Point is the champion of the Big South Conference. The Panthers come to Chapel Hill Saturday with a record of 13-7-1.
UNC is the No. 1 seed in the lower right quadrant of the tournament bracket. The No. 1 seeds in order are Stanford, North Carolina, Duke and South Carolina.
First-round games in UNC's quadrant of the bracket this coming weekend include:
San Diego State at #2 UCLA
Butler at Northwestern
Cal State Fullerton at Pepperdine
Saint Francis (Pa.) at #3 Virginia
Monmouth at #4 Princeton
Arkansas at NC State
Colorado at Denver
High Point at #1 North Carolina
Tickets for Saturday's game can be purchased in advance at the GoHeels.com Ticket Center. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children and senior citizens and $3 for group tickets. Gates will open Saturday at 12 noon.
Saturday's game will be webcast live nationally by ACC Network Extra will live streaming on WatchESPN and the ESPN App.
The Tar Heels earned the automatic bid from the Atlantic Coast Conference after beating Duke 1-0 Sunday in the ACC Tournament championship game in Charleston, S.C. That marked Carolina's first ACC Tournament championship since 2009. The Tar Heels are 15-2-2 this season. High Point is the champion of the Big South Conference. The Panthers come to Chapel Hill Saturday with a record of 13-7-1.
UNC is the No. 1 seed in the lower right quadrant of the tournament bracket. The No. 1 seeds in order are Stanford, North Carolina, Duke and South Carolina.
First-round games in UNC's quadrant of the bracket this coming weekend include:
San Diego State at #2 UCLA
Butler at Northwestern
Cal State Fullerton at Pepperdine
Saint Francis (Pa.) at #3 Virginia
Monmouth at #4 Princeton
Arkansas at NC State
Colorado at Denver
High Point at #1 North Carolina
Tickets for Saturday's game can be purchased in advance at the GoHeels.com Ticket Center. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children and senior citizens and $3 for group tickets. Gates will open Saturday at 12 noon.
Saturday's game will be webcast live nationally by ACC Network Extra will live streaming on WatchESPN and the ESPN App.
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