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.