Carolina (9-5-5) will play at No. 12 seed UC Irvine on Sunday at 5 p.m. ET in Irvine, Calif.
For the second-straight match, Carolina got another quick goal to take a 1-0 lead. This time the early goal came from Omar Holness at the 3:27 mark. Cooper Vandermaas-Peeler started the play with a corner kick, sending a perfect deep cross that Holness one-touched into the back of the net for his second goal of the season.
Vandermaas-Peeler earned his team-leading fourth assist on the play.
All-ACC keeper Brendan Moore made two saves to notch his ACC-leading 10th clean sheet of the season for the Tar Heels.