Terriers to Host Penn State in Final Series of 2018

Sunday, December 30

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Terriers to Host Penn State in Final Series of 2018

December 28, 2018 | Women's Ice Hockey

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Women's Ice Hockey (8-4-4, 5-4-4 WHEA) vs. Penn State (7-9-2, 2-6-0 CHA)
Date & Time	Sunday, Dec. 30 (2:30 p.m.) \| Monday, Dec. 31 (1 p.m.)
Venue	Walter Brown Arena \| Boston, Mass
Tickets	Sunday Tickets \| Monday Tickets
Live Stats	Sunday \| Monday
Watch (Online)	Sunday (outside New England) \| Sunday (New England) \| Monday
Watch (TV)	NESN (Sunday only)
Notes	BU \| Penn State
Twitter	@BUGameDay \| @TerrierWHockey

The Boston University women's ice hockey team will close out the calendar year with a pair of games against Penn State. The two-game series begins Sunday at 2:30, with Monday's tilt scheduled for 1 p.m.

BU will host its annual Skating Strides against Breast Cancer game on Sunday. That contest will also be broadcast live on NESN.

HISTORY WITH PENN STATE

This weekend will mark the fifth and sixth meetings between BU and Penn State.
The Terriers are 2-1-1 all-time against the Nittany Lions, including a 1-1 record at Walter Brown Arena.
BU last hosted Penn State on Oct. 9 and 10, 2015, with the Terriers dropping a 5-3 decision before earning a 3-1 win.
A year later, BU visited State College, Pennsylvania and skated to a 3-3 tie on Oct. 14 before the Terriers picked up a 7-2 win the next day.
The Nittany Lions have scored first in three of the four contests between the two teams.

NEWS ON THE NITTANY LIONS

Like BU, Penn State has not played since Dec. 8.
The Nittany Lions entered the semester break having been swept at Robert Morris (3-2, 4-1).
They had won three of four prior to that series at RMU, including a sweep of RIT, the Terriers' last opponent.
Sophomore Natalie Heising leads Penn State with 10 goals and 19 points.
She is second in assists (9), one behind team leader Kelsey Crow (10).
Crow, a senior, is second in points with 11.
Junior Jenna Brenneman has started 17 of Penn State's 18 games.
She is 7-8-2 with a 1.82 goals-against average and a .925 save percentage.

TERRIERS ON A TEAR

BU enters the final weekend of 2018 with a 7-1-1 record since Nov. 1.
During that time, the Terriers have averaged 4.0 goals per game while allowing just 1.67 goals per game.
Even more impressive is that five of the seven wins have been away from home.

RECAPPING THE RIT SWEEP

BU has not played since Dec. 8, when the Terriers completed a weekend sweep of RIT in Rochester.
The Terriers shut out the Tigers, 8-0, that afternoon after earning a 3-1 win the previous day.
Jesse Compher led the Terriers with seven points (2g, 5a) in two games, including a five-point effort (1g, 4a) in the 8-0 win.
Compher, redshirt junior Sammy Davis and junior Natasza Tarnowski all finished the weekend with two goals.
Thirteen different Terriers recorded at least one point, including freshmen Courtney Correia and Kaleigh Donnelly, who each notched their first collegiate goal on Dec. 8.
Sophomore Corinne Schroeder stopped 49 of the 50 shots she saw over the weekend, including 27 saves on Dec. 7.
Schroeder made 22 saves on Dec. 8 before freshman Nicole McGuigan played the final 9:11 of the contest to complete the combined shutout in what was her collegiate debut.

JESSE JUST KEEPS PUTTING UP POINTS

A native of Northbrook, Illinois, Compher has emerged as one of the top forwards in the country.
She is tied for first in the conference and fourth in the nation with 31 points, and her 20 assists ranks first in the league and second in the NCAA.
Compher is second in the country and first in Hockey East in points per game (1.94).
She has also averaged an NCAA-leading 1.25 assists per game and is on a nation-best 13-game assist streak.
Her 13-game point streak (10g, 19a) is the second longest active streak in the nation entering this weekend.
Compher is a plus-16 this season, including a plus-13 rating over the last 10 tilts.
She has recorded at least two points in 10 of the Terriers' 16 games this year.

DAVIS DYNAMITE LATELY

Redshirt junior tri-captain Sammy Davis has been outstanding during her current nine-game point streak.
She has notched 18 points (6g, 12a) in that stretch, including a career-high three assists on Dec. 1 against BC.
Davis pushed the point streak to nine with three points (2g, 1a) in a weekend sweep at RIT.
Davis' point streak began with a three-point night (2g, 1a) at UConn on Nov. 9.
The tri-captain is second on the squad in goals (10), assists (13) and points (23) and has also factored on four of the Terriers' seven game-winning goals since Nov. 9.

POWER SURGE

The Terriers went 6-for-9 on the power play in their 8-0 win on Dec. 8, matching an NCAA record for most power-play goals in a game.
BU was the first team to score six times on the power play in a single game since Dartmouth on Jan. 30, 2009.
The Terriers have scored at least two power-play goals in each of their last four fixtures.
Since Nov. 30, BU has gone 13-for-26 on the power play.
The Terriers were second to last in the country on the power play after their Nov. 27 win at Brown.
They now rank second in the nation at 25 percent.
The Terriers' penalty kill has also been a big reason for their recent success.
In their last seven wins, the Terriers are 25-of-27 (92.6%) on the penalty kill.