Terriers Trek to Sacred Heart on Tuesday

Tuesday, February 19

Fairfield, CT

3 PM

Boston University

Sacred Heart

Photo by: Rich Gagnon

February 18, 2019 | Men's Lacrosse

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Men's Lacrosse (2-1, 0-0 PL) at Sacred Heart (1-1, 0-0 NEC)
Date & Time	Tuesday, Feb. 19 (3 p.m.)
Venue	Campus Field - Fairfield, Conn.
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The Boston University men's lacrosse team will continue its 2019 season on Tuesday when the Terriers trek to Fairfield, Connecticut, to face Sacred Heart. Opening faceoff is set for 3 p.m.

SCOUTING THE PIONEERS

Sacred Heart improved to 1-1 after an 18-11 win over Furman on Saturday.
The Pioneers opened their season with a 13-10 loss at Georgetown.
Redshirt senior Joe Saggese leads the team with 13 points and also has a team-high six assists.
Senior Max Tuttle, a preseason All-American, is tied with Saggese for the team lead in goals with seven.
Junior Jake Giaquinto is 27-of-53 at the faceoff X.
Junior Brooks Dutton owns a 12.00 goals-against average and .455 save percentage in two starts.

A SUCCESSFUL HOME OPENER

BU earned a 15-8 win over Dartmouth on Saturday in its home opener at Nickerson Field.
The Terriers scored six seconds into the game en route to a 6-0 lead after 15 minutes.
BU held leads of 9-1 and 11-3 before ultimately taking a 12-6 lead into halftime.
Sophomore Chris Gray recorded nine points thanks to three goals and six assists, all of which came in the first half.
Freshman Timmy Ley scored a career-high five goals in that electric opening half.
Senior Brendan Homire tallied all three of his points in the second half, scoring two goals and assisting on classmate James Burr's third goal of the game with 4:27 remaining in regulation.
Senior Michael Laviano recorded two assists in his first game since the end of the 2017 season.
Sophomore Michael Doxie and freshman Jack Collins both found the back of the net while sophomore Sean Christman added an assist.
Christman finished the game 4-of-5 at the faceoff X while sophomore Kevin Snyder won a career-high 14 of the 21 draws he took.
Snyder collected a career-high five ground balls.
Junior Chase Levesque also gathered five ground balls to tie for the team lead on Saturday.
Sophomore Joe McSorley made four saves and combined with the Terrier defense to hold Dartmouth to just two goals in the second half.

GRAY NAMED OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF WEEK

Sophomore Chris Gray was named Patriot League Offensive Player of the Week, the conference announced on Monday.
Gray recorded nine points, all in the first half, in Saturday's 15-8 win over Dartmouth thanks to three goals and six assists.
Gray helped spark the Terriers to a 6-0 lead after 15 minutes and an eventual 11-3 lead in the second quarter.
He came one point from matching the single-game program record that he set at Harvard last year.
This is the second time in three weeks that Gray has been honored as the conference's top offensive player.
He currently leads the Patriot League and is second in the entire country in both points (18) and assists (11).

GOT OFF TO A FAST START

BU scored just six seconds into Saturday's game against Dartmouth.
Sophomore Sean Christman won the opening faceoff and raced into the box before feeding freshman Timmy Ley for the goal.
It matched Sam Talkow's record for fastest goal in a game, which he set against Duke on May 4, 2014.

LEY LEADS THE WAY ON SATURDAY

Freshman Timmy Ley scored a career-high five goals in the Terriers' 15-8 win over Dartmouth on Saturday.
The five goals is the most by a Terrier rookie since Chris Gray scored five in last year's Patriot League quarterfinal at Bucknell.
Ley had entered the afternoon with just one goal, which he scored at Ohio State on Feb. 9.
He also gathered the first three ground balls of his collegiate career on Saturday.

BURR CLOSING IN ON HISTORY

Senior James Burr will become the program's all-time leading goal scorer with his next goal.
He is currently tied with 2018 graduate Jack Wilson at 108 goals thanks to a hat trick on Saturday against Dartmouth.
Burr scored his 100th goal on Feb. 9 at Ohio State as part of a career-high six-goal afternoon, which matched Wilson's single-game record set in 2015.
The Hamilton, Massachusetts, native is also third in career points with 134 (108g, 26a), trailing only Wilson (170 points) and 2017 graduate Cal Dearth (153 points).
He enters Saturday on a 20-game goal streak, fourth-longest in the nation and longest in the Patriot League.

LOTS OF STREAKS ON THE LINE IN FAIRFIELD

Three of the four longest active goal scoring streaks in the nation will be on the line when BU and Sacred Heart take the field.
The Pioneers' Max Tuttle (27 games) and Joe Saggese (26 games) rank first and second, respectively, on that list.
Burr is fourth at 20 games, though he is third behind Tuttle and Saggese with 56 goals scored during his streak, which began on Feb. 3, 2018.