CHAPEL HILL - No. 3 North Carolina closed out the regular season with a 6-1 victory over Syracuse, giving Hayley Carter and the Tar Heels a fifth-straight Atlantic Coast Conference Women’s Tennis regular season title.
North Carolina (27-2, 13-1 ACC) garners the top seed in next week’s ACC Championship and will face either eighth seed Virginia or ninth seed Florida State on Friday at 1 p.m. in Rome, Georgia.
Seniors Carter and Rachael James-Baker were honored before the match as part of Senior Day festivities inside Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
The celebration continued in doubles when top ranked Hayley Carter and Jessie Aney, playing together for the first time in three weeks, earned a 6-2 win over No.