Heck Hat Trick Leads FH In 7-0 Win At Liberty

Sunday, September 22

Lynchburg, Va.

Noon

North Carolina

(6-0)

Liberty

(4-3)

North Carolina

Liberty

Grace Pottebaum and the Tar Heels won 7-0 at Liberty Sunday. (Photo courtesy of Liberty Athletics)

September 22, 2024 | Field Hockey

Box Score

LYNCHBURG, Va. – The UNC field hockey team scored four times in the second quarter to take a 4-0 lead into halftime and then kept rolling for a 7-0 win at No. 11 Liberty on Sunday afternoon.

No. 2 Carolina improved to 6-0 while the Flames fell to 4-3.

Junior Ryleigh Heck finished with a hat trick plus two assists for an eight-point day. Sophomore Charly Bruder scored twice, and the Tar Heels got single goals from Sietske Brüning and Sanne Hak.

The gamewinner came in the 18^th minute, on the first penalty corner of the game. Bruder had the score on assists from Ciana Riccardo and Katie Dixon. Brüning added to that in the 24^th minute, blasting in a pass from Heck. In the 26^th minute, Heck scored her own, hitting the post with her first shot then gathering the rebound and sending it just inside the far post to make it 3-0. Less than a minute later, Sanne Hak made it 4-0, scoring on a pass from Heck.

After carrying that advantage into the third quarter, Heck quickly made it 5-0 on a pass from Pleun Lammers just 90 seconds into the period. UNC added two more in the fourth, with Bruder batting the ball in out of the air on a rebound in the 50^th minute, and Heck scoring on a reverse in the 56^th minute.

UNC outshot the Flames 25-2 for the game and registered its fourth shutout in a row.

Next up for the Tar Heels is a trip out west to face the newest Atlantic Coast Conference opponents. After an open weekend, UNC plays at Stanford on Oct. 4 and at California on Oct. 6.

No. 2 UNC 7, No. 11 Liberty 0
Scoring: UNC – Charly Bruder (Ciana Riccardo, Katie Dixon), 17:51; UNC – Sietske Brüning (Ryleigh Heck), 23:31; UNC – Heck, 25:37; UNC – Sanne Hak (Heck), 26:26; UNC – Heck (Pleun Lammers), 31:28; UNC – Bruder, 49:44; UNC – Heck, 55:34
Shots: UNC 25 (4/12/3/6), Liberty 2 (0/1/0/1)
Penalty Corners: UNC 5 (0/4/1/2), Liberty 0
Goalkeeper Saves: UNC 2 (Abigail Taylor, 55:57, 2 saves, 0 goals allowed; Charley Van Den Stockt, 4:03, 0 saves, 0 goals allowed); Liberty 7 (Michaela Skinner, 60:00, 7 saves, 7 goals allowed)
Records: UNC 6-0, Liberty 4-3