{"id":1941179,"date":"2026-10-30T21:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T01:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941179"},"modified":"2026-10-30T22:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T02:02:17","slug":"hecks-brace-shahbos-late-saves-secure-top-seed-for-unc-keep-matson-unbeaten-vs-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1941179","title":{"rendered":"Heck\u2019s brace, Shahbo\u2019s late saves secure top seed for UNC, keep Matson unbeaten vs. Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM \u2014 Seventy days after Duke dominated North Carolina in an August field hockey scrimmage at Williams Field, the roles were reversed for one half. A young Tar Heels team that has endured plenty of adversity since then looked more like a championship team. Sensational fifth-year forward Ryleigh Heck scored two goals, and Carolina held on for a 2\u20131 victory to earn the top seed in next week\u2019s ACC tournament in Chapel Hill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tarheeltribune.com\/2026\/10\/30\/hecks-brace-shahbos-saves-secure-top-seed-for-unc-keep-matson-unbeaten-vs-duke\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click here to read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM \u2014 Seventy days after Duke dominated North Carolina in an August field hockey scrimmage at Williams Field, the roles were reversed for one half. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1941179","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\/1941179","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=1941179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941180,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1941179\/revisions\/1941180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1941179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1941179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1941179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}