Redei’s Brace Powers Tar Heels Past Golden Eagles

Sunday, September 2

Durham, N.C.

12 p.m.

North Carolina

5-0-1

Marquette

0-4-1

Marquette

North Carolina

Zoe Redei had the first brace of her college career as UNC downed Marquette 4-0

Photo by: Jeffrey A. Camarati

September 2, 2018 | Women's Soccer

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UNC has not allowed a goal in 379 minutes.

By: Dave Lohse

DURHAM, N.C. – The third-ranked University of North Carolina women's soccer team notched three goals in a span of 9:34 late in the first half Sunday, going on to post a clean sheet in a 4-0 victory over Marquette at the Duke Nike Classic at Koskinen Stadium.

Junior striker Zoe Redei recorded a brace in a span of just over eight minutes, matching her goal total for the 2017 season in the process. Senior defender Julia Ashley had a goal and an assist in the match and junior forward Madison Schultz recorded her second goal of the season as the Tar Heels got three of their four goals off the bench.

UNC's defense ended with its third successive clean sheet and Carolina has not allowed a goal since the 1:10 mark of the match against Texas on August 22. UNC has not been scored on in the past 378 minutes and 50 seconds.

Carolina had struggled with finishing in its previous three games – a 1-1 tie with Texas and 1-0 wins over UCF and Providence. But Sunday against the Golden Eagles, a flurry late in the first half saw the Tar Heels light up the scoreboard.

After Carolina made six substitutions at a water break at the 25:16 mark, UNC scored just 13 seconds later off the foot of Redei, who had missed the first four games of the season with a leg injury before playing 10 minutes in Thursday's win over Providence. Julia Ashley launched a pass from midfield to Redei who pushed it out wide to the right side to Bridgette Andrzejewski. The junior forward from Maryland returned the ball to Redei, whose run left her wide open in the middle of the penalty box for a one touch into the lower left side of the goal.

It did not take long before Redei found the back of the net again. Ashley again initiated the play with a pass to Sydney Spruill at the top of the 18-yard box. Spruill outfought two Golden Eagle players for the play and sent the ball to a wide open Redei in the right side of the box. Redei finished almost identically to her previous goal and at 33:35, UNC had doubles its lead to 2-0.

It took less than a minute and a half for Carolina to add to that lead. After a foul on the Golden Eagles, sophomore defender Lotte Wubben-Moy delivered a long serve from 40 yards out perfectly to the head of Ashley who finished for her second goal in four days at the 35:03 mark. Ashley has now doubled her career goal total in the past two games (she had two goals in 2017) while Wubben-Moy earned her first career point with the assist on Ashley's goal.

Carolina finished off the scoring at 71:20 as junior striker Madison Schultz notched her second goal of the year. Ru Mucherera initiated the play with a throw in from the left side. Morgan Goff held off her defender with her back to the goal and tapped the ball to Schultz who finished from the left side just inside the 18-yard box into the right side of the goal after finding space to free herself up.

The Tar Heels outshot the Golden Eagles 26-4, including a 12-0 edge in shots on goal. Maddy Henry of Marquette made all eight saves in the game, playing the first 81:58 for the Golden Eagles in goal.

UNC head coach Anson Dorrance played 27 players in the game with all of them seeing at least 10 minutes of action. Senior Megan Joyner, junior Abby Staker and sophomores Miah Araba and Natalie Chandler all saw their first game action of the 2018 season.

The Tar Heels return to action on the West Coast next weekend. UNC plays at ninth-ranked Santa Clara next Friday at 10:30 p.m. EDT. Two days later, Carolina will play at top-ranked and defending NCAA champion Stanford at 5:30 p.m. EDT.