{"id":1934083,"date":"2026-09-20T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T18:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934083"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:13:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T20:13:01","slug":"more-growing-pains-but-progress-as-unc-falls-in-acc-field-hockey-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1934083","title":{"rendered":"More growing pains but progress as UNC falls in ACC field hockey opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 As a young North Carolina field hockey team works to improve, it\u2019s going through a process that\u2019s not common for the program: learning from losses. That has sometimes meant taking risks to create some momentum. On Sunday at Karen Shelton Stadium, one of those risks was Coach Erin Matson pulling goaltender Merritt Skubisz with seven minutes left for an extra attacker, trailing by a goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/09\/20\/more-growing-pains-but-progress-as-unc-falls-in-acc-field-hockey-opener\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAPEL HILL \u2014 As a young North Carolina field hockey team works to improve, it\u2019s going through a process that\u2019s not common for the program: learning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1934083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-tar-heels","wpcat-80-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934083","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1934083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934084,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934083\/revisions\/1934084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1934083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1934083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1934083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}