{"id":1426987,"date":"2021-08-27T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1426987"},"modified":"2026-07-26T13:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T17:52:00","slug":"tar-heels-drop-season-opener-3-2-to-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1426987","title":{"rendered":"Tar Heels Drop Season Opener, 3-2 To Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2021\/8\/27\/field-hockey-tar-heels-drop-season-opener-3-2-to-michigan.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2013 In a 1-vs-2 matchup to open the season, the top-ranked North Carolina field hockey team scored two fourth-quarter goals but fell 3-2 to No. 2 Michigan on Friday afternoon at the University of Iowa&#8217;s Grant Field. The UNC-Michigan game, a rematch of the 2020 NCAA Championship game won by Carolina last May, was the opener of the 2021 Big Ten\/ACC Challenge, which also includes a Friday game between No. 3 Iowa and No. 11 Wake Forest. <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2021\/8\/27\/field-hockey-tar-heels-drop-season-opener-3-2-to-michigan.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/goheels.com\/news\/2021\/8\/27\/field-hockey-tar-heels-drop-season-opener-3-2-to-michigan.aspx\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Tar Heels Drop Season Opener, 3-2 To Michigan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Goheels.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IOWA CITY, Iowa \u2013 In a 1-vs-2 matchup to open the season, the top-ranked North Carolina field hockey team scored two fourth-quarter goals but fell 3-2&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1921371,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426987\/revisions\/1921371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}