Terriers Set for Friday Trip to UConn

Friday, October 18

Storrs, CT

6 PM

Boston University

UConn

Photo by: Steve Babineau

October 17, 2019 | Women's Ice Hockey

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The Boston University women's ice hockey team will travel to UConn on Friday for a Hockey East tilt against the Huskies. Puck drop is scheduled for 6 p.m.

ROAD WARRIORS

This is the second game in a five-game road stretch for the Terriers.
BU will trek to Maine for a Sunday matinée before heading to Penn State for a two-game series on Oct. 25 and 26.
The Terriers won't play two consecutive home games until Nov. 12, 15 and 19 when they host Yale, Boston College and Harvard.

HISTORY WITH THE HUSKIES

BU is 26-11-7 all-time against the Huskies, including a 12-5-4 record at UConn.
The Terriers went 2-0-1 against UConn last season and are 3-0-3 against the Huskies over the last two campaigns.
Dating back to a victory over the Huskies in the 2010 Hockey East title game, BU is 23-2-4 against UConn.

LAST TIME AGAINST UCONN

Nara Elia, Courtney Correia and Emma Wuthrich all lit the lamp to give BU a 3-0 lead in an eventual 3-1 triumph at UConn on Feb. 22.
Abby Cook, Kaleigh Donnelly and Mackenna Parker each added one assist.
Corinne Schroeder made 35 saves, including 20 in the third period, to preserve the win.

SCOUTING THE HUSKIES

UConn split its first league games of the year last weekend, falling at home to New Hampshire and winning at Holy Cross.
Both games ended 2-0.
Junior Natalie Snodgrass leads the Huskies with four assists and five points while classmate Morgan Wabick has notched a team-best three goals.
Ten different Huskies have notched at least two points.
Senior Morgan Fisher and sophomore Samantha Carpentier-Yelle have each started two games and posted one shutout.
Fisher boasts a 1.00 goals-against average and a .946 save percentage while Carpentier-Yelle has stopped all 32 shots she has faced.

BEST OF BU AGAINST UCONN

Sammy Davis leads BU with six goals and eight points against UConn.
Jesse Compher has notched seven points (3g, 4a) while Abby Cook leads BU with five helpers against the Huskies.
Abbey Stanley has secured four assists while Deziray De Sousa has notched three points (1g, 2a).
Natasza Tarnowski (1g, 1a), Breanna Scarpaci (2a) and Nara Elia (2g) all have at least two points against UConn.
Emma Wuthrich (1g), Courtney Correia (1g), Kaleigh Donnelly (1a) and Mackenna Parker (1a) all secured at least one point against the Huskies as rookies last season.
Corinne Schroeder allowed just one goal in each of her three starts against UConn last season.
She has never allowed more than two goals in any of her six starts against the Huskies, boasting a 3-0-3 record with a .947 save percentage.
Schroeder owned a .970 save percentage against the Huskies during the 2018-19 campaign.

WEEKEND RECAP

The Terriers tied Merrimack, 2-2, on Friday night in their home opener before suffering a 4-2 setback at New Hampshire the next day.
Freshman Julia Nearis notched her first collegiate goal on Friday while junior Natasza Tarnowski tied the game, 2-2, in the second period.
Sophomore Mackenna Parker and junior Kristina Schuler assisted on Nearis' marker while redshirt senior Sammy Davis and sophomore Kaleigh Donnelly both had helpers on Tarnowski's tally.
Junior Corinne Schroeder made 21 saves in the tie.
On Saturday at UNH, senior Abby Cook gave BU a 1-0 lead but the Wildcats tallied three straight goals to pull away.
Davis also scored and assisted on Cook's power-play strike.
Junior Nara Elia recorded two assists while sophomore Courtney Correia also notched an assist.
Sophomore Kate Stuart made a career-high 43 saves.

FIFTY FOR SAMMY

Redshirt senior Sammy Davis notched her 50th career goal on Oct. 6
She notched two goals in the victory, including a power-play strike.
She has recorded a point in all three games this season, scoring three goals and adding two assists.
Both of Davis' assists have been the primary helper.
Davis ranks ninth in the conference with five points and her average of 1.67 points per game is fifth-best in the league this season.

ELECTRIC ELIA

Junior Nara Elia assisted on both Terrier goals at UNH on Saturday.
It was the fourth two-assist game of her career and the eighth time she has recorded at least two points.
Those two helpers were the first two points of the year for Elia, who tallied career highs in goals (9), assists (9) and points (18) last season.

NIFTY NEARIS

Freshman Julia Nearis notched her first collegiate goal on Oct. 11 against Merrimack.
She is the first Terrier rookie to light the lamp this season and the second BU freshman to record a point.
Haylee Blinkhorn secured her first collegiate point with an assist in the season opener.
All five Terrier freshmen have skated in all three games this season.

SPREADING THE WEALTH

Four different Terriers have been responsible for the six BU goals so far this season.
Redshirt senior Sammy Davis has tallied three goals while freshman Julia Nearis, senior Abby Cook and senior Natasza Tarnowski have also lit the lamp.
Nine Terriers in total have recorded an assist and 11 BU skaters have registered a point.

COOK CASHES IN

Senior Abby Cook notched her first goal of the season on Saturday at UNH.
She now has two points in three games this season.
This is a continuation of her strong play in the offensive zone from last season, when she posted career highs in goals (8) and assists (20).
In 114 career games, the two-time Hockey East and New England All-Star has notched 15 goals and added 56 assists for 71 points.

TOP LINE TERRIFIC SATURDAY

The top line of redshirt senior Sammy Davis, sophomore Courtney Correia and junior Nara Elia had a strong game on Saturday at New Hampshire.
Davis (1g, 1a) and Elia (2a) both registered two points while Correia assisted on Davis' goal.
The trio combined for five of the Terriers' six points on Saturday.

STUART STRONG AT NEW HAMPSHIRE

Sophomore Kate Stuart made a career-high 43 saves in her first start of the season on Saturday at UNH.
She made 21 of those stops in a frantic first period to help keep the score at 1-1 after 20 minutes.
That was the second time Stuart has made over 40 saves against the Wildcats; she stopped 41 shots in a 3-3 tie with UNH on Feb. 16.
Stuart's previous high for saves came on Nov. 30, 2018, when she turned aside 42 Boston College shots in a 3-2 win.

OFF TO FAST STARTS

BU has scored the opening goal in all three tilts this season.
All three of those opening salvos have come during the first period, which represents half of the Terriers' total goals this season.
Only three other teams score a higher percentage of their goals in the opening 20 minutes.