Cardiac ’Cuse Strikes Again Over Louisville - Syracuse University Athletics

Tuesday, November 3

Chapel Hill, N.C.

12:30 p.m.

Syracuse University

(10-6, 4-4)

Five-Seed Louisville

(10-9, 4-4)

Team	1	2	3	4	Final F
Louisville	1	1	1	0	3
Syracuse	1	1	1	1	4

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Jess Liddell scored twice on penalty corners and Fieve Frenken broke a 3-3 tie in the fourth quarter as No. 16 Syracuse University field hockey edged Louisville 4-3 in the ACC Championship quarterfinals Tuesday at Karen Shelton Stadium.

The Orange (10-6) advance to the ACC semifinals for the third consecutive season. First Team All-ACC selection Aubrey Turner had a hand in all four Syracuse goals, scoring once and assisting on the other three for a five-point day. Ava Brewer assisted on both of Liddell's goals. Jessie Eiselin went the distance in goal, making five saves to improve to 6-5 on the year.

Louisville (10-9) got two goals from Mary Wordelmann and one from Chloe Plumb, while Tyler Everslage and Gracie Potter each added an assist. Emily Young made five saves in 55:51 before the Cardinals pulled her for an extra attacker over the final 4:09. Louisville held a 21-15 edge in shots and an 11-9 advantage in penalty corners.

How it Happened

Louisville struck first in the sixth minute as Wordelmann finished off an Everslage feed for a 1-0 lead.
The Orange earned three penalty corners in the final four minutes of the first quarter. Young turned aside Liddell twice before Liddell broke through with eight seconds left in the period, converting a corner set up by Brewer and Turner to tie the game 1-1.
Louisville regained the lead in the 24th minute. After the Orange defense blocked two Tamera Cookman shots on back-to-back corners, Plumb scored her fifth goal of the season off a Potter assist.
Syracuse answered two and a half minutes later. Young stopped Liddell's corner shot, but Turner was there for the rebound, knocking in her ninth goal of the year to make it 2-2. Young denied Liddell on another corner in the 27th minute to send the teams to halftime level.
Liddell gave Syracuse its first lead of the day in the 34th minute, burying another penalty corner with Brewer and Turner picking up the assists again.
The Cardinals pulled even 88 seconds later. Eiselin stopped Potter, Plumb rang the post and Maggie Kearin's shot was blocked before Wordelmann put home the loose ball for her second goal of the game.
Eiselin made two more stops in the third quarter, denying Lauren Masters in the 37th minute and Annabel Sep on a corner in the 39th. Young answered at the other end, turning away Liddell on a corner in the 44th minute to keep it 3-3 after 45 minutes.
Syracuse killed off back-to-back Louisville corners in the 50th and 51st minutes, blocking two Kearin drives. Moments later, Frenken put the Orange ahead for good in the 52nd minute, scoring her second goal of the season off a Turner assist.
Louisville earned two more corners in the 53rd and 54th minutes and played with an extra attacker over the final four minutes, but the Orange defense did not allow a shot over the last 9:21 to close it out.

By the Numbers

5 – Points for Turner (1g, 3a), who factored into every Orange goal.
7 – Shots on goal for Liddell, accounting for seven of the Orange's nine shots on frame. She led all players with nine shots.
3 – Syracuse goals that came off penalty corner sequences.
4 – Quarters in which Syracuse scored, finding the back of the net in every period.
0 – Louisville shots over the final 9:21 of regulation.

Up Next for Syracuse

No. 16 Syracuse faces top-seeded and seventh-ranked North Carolina in the ACC semifinals Wednesday, Nov. 4, with a 1 p.m. start at Karen Shelton Stadium.
The host Tar Heels advanced with a 6-0 win over Stanford in Tuesday's opening quarterfinal.
The semifinal will air on ACC Network with Leah Secondo and Suzanne Bush on the call. The ACC title game is set for Friday, Nov. 6 at 3 p.m.