Syracuse rallied from a four-goal deficit to defeat North Carolina 13-11 in the NCAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament quarterfinals Saturday evening in Hempstead, N.Y. With the win, the Orange advance to the Final Four for the second consecutive season. 

The sixth-seeded Orange also avenged two losses to the third-seeded Tar Heels earlier in the season. Syracuse dropped a regular-season game to the Tar Heels, 14-9 on April 4, followed by a loss in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament on May 1, 12-10.

Here's everything you need to know about the win and about what happens next for Syracuse men's lacrosse.

North Carolina's Peter Thomann started the scoring with the first goal 14 plus minutes into the first quarter. Six seconds later, Syracuse (13-5) answered with a goal by John Mullen, and the teams were tied at 1-1 to end the first quarter.

North Carolina scored five of the next six goals to push its lead to 6-2, but Syracuse rallied scoring the game's next six goals. A Syracuse scoring spurt with goals from Luke Rhoa, Mullen and Finn Thomson narrowed the North Carolina (13-5) lead to 6-5 at the half.

Syracuse continued its scoring outburst in the second half, with Joey Spallina -- the program's all-time leading scorer -- putting in the first of his three goals less than a minute into the third quarter. Wyatt Hottle and Michael Leo completed the six-goal streak to put the Orange up by two.

North Carolina went almost 15 minutes without a point before Brevin Wilson scored, but Thomson answered back with a goal. Another Tar Heels goal left the Orange with a 9-8 lead entering the fourth quarter.

Syracuse's season record when it takes a lead to the fourth quarter is 12-1, with the lone loss coming against the Tar Heels. 

The Tar Heels tried mightily but couldn't overtake the Orange. Syracuse scored four times in the fourth quarter, with goals coming from Spallina, a local Long Island product. He finished with three goals and three assists on the day.

The low-scoring first quarter could be attributed to the field conditions at host Hofstra.

Before the Orange and Tar Heels took the field, Notre Dame defeated Johns Hopkins 15-9. During the television broadcast of that game, Fighting Irish head coach Kevin Corrigan said, "This field is terrible. It is what it is. Both teams are dealing with it.”

Before today's action, Dan Aburn of Inside Lacrosse noted on X that the newly installed field could cause players to slip.

"Something to watch for today at Hofstra:

New turf installed. Could be more slippery than usual."

Syracuse's longest drought in program history without winning a national championship could be coming to an end next weekend. The Orange have reached the semifinals in back-to-back seasons for the first time since 2009. 

The Orange will try to become the first six seed ever to win a national championship.  To do that, they will need to defeat No. 2 seed Notre Dame (12-2) next Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET in Charlottesville, Va. 

In the teams' previous matchup on April 25, the Fighting Irish defeated the Orange 16-11. 

No. 1 Princeton meets No. 8 Penn State in one quarterfinal on Sunday, with unseeded Duke and Georgetown playing in the other to determine who will earn a spot in the second semifinal.

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