Game Details
North Carolina 3, Saint Louis 0 (Box Score)
Sunday, Aug. 28, 2016 | 6:30 p.m. (ET)
Chapel Hill, N.C. | Fetzer Field
The Basics
Saint Louis dropped a 3-0 decision at eighth-ranked North Carolina on Sunday night.
The Billikens split on an opening weekend that saw them play against two top 10 opponents on the road. SLU defeated No. 5 Wake Forest on Friday.
On Sunday, North Carolina (2-0) scored two goals in the first half and tacked on a goal early in the second half for the 3-0 margin.
SLU keeper Sascha Otte, who was coming off a career-high game against Wake Forest in which he made 11 saves, recorded seven stops for the Billikens.
Scoring Summary
UNC – Nils Bruening, 16:57
UNC – Zach Wright (Cam Lindley, Colton Storm), 22:13
UNC – Mauricio Pineda (Walker Hume, Nico Melo), 50:25
Quotable
“We gave everything we had, but we were second-best in every aspect tonight,” SLU head coach Mike McGinty said. “We learned a lot as a team this weekend and will be ready to go next Sunday against Tulsa for our home opener at Hermann Stadium.”
SLU Starters
Sascha Otte, Andre Rivers-Hardware, Max Karcher, Julian Gieseke, Lennart Hein, Patrick Sarr, Leo Novaes, Jair Hernandez, Quayyum Murana, Noah Murphy, Spiros Karidis.
Substitutes
Akeem Richards, Joe Saad, Carson Gray, Duncan Corbett, Constantin Heider, Eric Davies, Jair Minors, Brady Lenius, Anthony Brown, Grant Owens.
Up Next
The Billikens host Tulsa next Sunday night in a 7 p.m. kickoff at Hermann Stadium. Tulsa, which hosts UMKC on Wednesday, fell 2-1 to Cal State Northridge in its opener on Friday.
