Senior stars shine in UNC women’s soccer home finale

The UNC women’s soccer team was clicking in virtually every aspect on Sunday afternoon, beating Syracuse in its home finale by a 6-1 mark.

After three consecutive ties, the UNC women’s soccer team wondered when another solid effort would put a win in its back pocket.

How about Senior Day?

On Sunday afternoon in Chapel Hill, Tar Heels senior Avery Patterson scored two second-half goals, leading her team to a dominant, 6-1 victory over the Syracuse Orange.

It took UNC a little while to score, but the floodgates opened once it did.

Senior Maycee Bell, Carolina’s main defensive star, started the scoring barrage with her 34th-minute tally on a beautiful re-direct.

Minutes later, junior Bella Sember scored her first of the year. She deked out a Syracuse defender, then sent a low show past Syracuse keeper Shea Vanderbosh.

After a brief halftime break, UNC senior midfielder Sam Meza scored her first of the year on a rebound. Syracuse’s Erin Flurey stopped the bleeding momentarily, but not before Patterson scored her team-leading eighth and ninth goals of the season.

You thought five goals were enough? Think again.

Carolina freshman Melina Rebimbas ended the scoring onsalught with her second of the season, sending another low shot past the outstreched arm of Vanderbosh.

UNC has one more game remaining on its schedule, a 7 p.m. kickoff on Thursday night at Boston College. If the Tar Heels win, they’d finish undefeated heading into an expectedly-difficult ACC Tournament.

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