Women's Soccer ACCtion: Sunday, September 27
Tar Heels and Seminoles win top 10 battles; UM's Taliaferro wins 100th match.
Tricia Taliaferro won her 100th match as Miami defeated No. 9 Maryland, 2-0.

Tricia Taliaferro won her 100th match as Miami defeated No. 9 Maryland, 2-0.

Sept. 27, 2009

Captains Engen & Hawkins Lead UNC Past No. 7 Wake Forest
Captains Whitney Engen (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.) and Ali Hawkins (Encinitas, Calif.) led the way for No. 1-ranked North Carolina Sunday evening as the Tar Heels blanked No. 7 Wake Forest in women's soccer action 4-0 before a crowd of 2,698 at Fetzer Field and a national television audience on the Fox Soccer Channel. Engen and Hawkins combined for two goals and three assists to lead the Tar Heel offense and the Carolina defense stood tall once again, posting its eighth shutout in 10 games and limiting the nation's No. 7 team to only one shot on goal in 90 minutes.

After not scoring a goal prior to the 67th minute in each of its five games, the Tar Heels came out with intensity against the Deacons, who were playing on eight days rest since winning at UAB 1-0 on September 19. The Tar Heels had played two overtime games since then but in the early going the Heels seemed to be the fresher team, putting pressure on the Wake Forest goal from the get go and putting two goals up on the scoreboard before the game was 22 minutes old.

Carolina improved to 9-0-1 on the season with the win and the Tar Heels are now 2-0 in the ACC. Wake Forest lost for only the second time this season. The Deacons are now 8-2 overall and 0-1 in the ACC.

FSU Tops BC 3-2
Fifth-ranked Florida State (9-1-0, 2-0-0 ACC) handed No. 3 Boston College (9-1-0, 1-1-0 ACC) its first loss of the season with a 3-2 victory Sunday afternoon at the Seminole Soccer Complex. Redshirt sophomore Jessica Price gave the Seminoles the lead for good breaking a 2-2 tie in the 73rd minute on her seventh goal of the season.

For the third game in a row, FSU knocked off a top 10 opponent and is now 5-0-0 against ranked teams in 2009 including a mark of 4-0-0 against top 10 teams.

With the victory, FSU extended its win streak to five straight against BC, while remaining unbeaten in eight all-time meetings (6-0-2).

Virginia Downs Clemson 3-0
The No. 14 Virginia women’s soccer team recorded its first ACC victory of the season, downing Clemson 3-0 Sunday afternoon in front of 1,097 fans at Klöckner Stadium. With the victory, the Cavaliers improve to 6-2-2 overall (1-1-0 ACC), while the Tigers fall to 3-7-0 (0-2-0 ACC).

Virginia took the lead in the eighth minute of play. Sinead Farrelly (Havertown, Pa.) sent a cross to the far post where Caitlin Miskel (Boca Raton, Fla.) scored on a diving header for her first goal of the season. The Cavaliers doubled their lead in the 38th minute, when Caroline Miller (Rockville, Md.) threaded a ball to Jess Rostedt (Kent, Ohio), who fired a shot inside the far post for her fifth goal of the season. In the second half, the Cavaliers added one more goal in the 54th minute. Julia Roberts’ (Frederick, Md.) cross found Lauren Alwine (Elizabethtown, Pa.) all alone on the far post, who knocked in her fourth goal of the year.

Virginia outshot Clemson 17-5 in the game, although the Tigers had an 8-0 corner kick advantage. Chantel Jones (Midlothian, Va.) made three saves to record her fourth shutout of the season. Paula Pritzen made four saves for Clemson.

Tech outs NC State, 3-0, in first ACC road game
In their first road match of conference play, the Hokies defeated a red-hot NC State team, 3-0. Three different Hokies scored, while, for the second time this season, six total earned points in the match. The Wolfpack took 10 shots in the game but were not able to get the ball through the Tech defense or past sophomore keeper Kristen Carden.

The Hokies (8-2-0, 2-0-0 ACC) went up on the Wolfpack (6-3-1, 1-1-0 ACC) in the 25th minute as senior leader Emily Jukich scored the only goal of the first half. Jukich netted her third goal of the season, flicking in a pass from junior Marika Gray who pushed the ball up the left side of the field before crossing it to Jukich. Gray’s helper was her first of the season.

The game would remain close through the first half and for most of the second half with both teams taking six shots by the end of the second half.

Milestones Reached in Hurricanes Win Over Maryland
The University of Miami women's soccer team scored once in each half, in getting its first Atlantic Coast Conference victory of the season, 2-0 over the No. 9 Maryland Terrapins, Sunday afternoon at Cobb Stadium

The win gave Hurricanes head coach Tricia Taliaferro her 100th career victory, but also saw sophomore Vikki Alonzo record her 15th career shutout. The shutout breaks a tie that Alonzo held with former `Cane Lauren McAdam for the most in school history.

Taliaferro is in her eighth season at the helm of the Miami soccer program, spending the three years prior at Illinios and has guided the Hurricanes to two straight NCAA Tournament appearances. The 100th win of her career also came against her alma mater