CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Senior Matt Brown posted his second four-point night of the season, but the No. 7/6 Boston University men's ice hockey team suffered a 9-6 setback at Boston College on Friday night at Conte Forum.

Brown notched one goal and recorded a career-best three assists, but BU (10-5-0, 7-4-0 HE) was unable to overcome a pair of two-goal deficits against BC (6-5-4, 5-3-3 HE). Brown was one of four Terriers to record multiple points, as senior Wilmer Skoog matched a career high with three points thanks to two goals and one assist while junior Nick Zabaneh and freshman Jeremy Wilmer each tallied one goal and one assist.

Freshman Quinn Hutson also found the back of the net, marking the third straight game he has lit the lamp. Senior captain Domenick Fensore notched an assist in his 100th game as a Terrier, one of eight different Terriers to secure a helper. Junior Cade Webber also had an assist, as did seniors Jamie Armstrong, Jay O'Brien and Ethan Phillips.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• BC took a 2-0 lead with 4:02 left in the first, but the Terriers stormed back to even the score with two goals in a span of 1:48. First, Brown scored on the Terriers' first power play of the game, knocking home a loose puck at the right post after it got through Mitch Benson's (30 saves) pads.
• Then, Hutson tied the game with 1:10 to play in the opening frame. Phillips won a race to a loose puck in the offensive end and quickly dropped it for O'Brien, who wasted no time in finding a wide-open Hutson at the right post for the tap-in.
• Skoog then gave BU its first lead of the night just 1:44 into the second stanza. Webber began the sequence by driving to the net and putting a shot on goal that Benson stopped. Benson also stopped Brown's rebound attempt, but Skoog made sure the third time was the charm for his second goal of the season.
• Wilmer answered a BC equalizer to retake the lead at 5:39 of the frame, but the Eagles scored two straight to take a 5-4 lead at 10:29.
• A wicked wrister by Zabaneh pushed the score to 5-5, but a pair of BC markers made it a 7-5 game after 40 minutes before the Eagles tacked on another power-play goal midway through the third to push their lead to three.
• The Terriers pulled junior Vinny Duplessis in favor of an extra attacker with 3:37 left in the third and got a goal back with 1:30 to play when Wilmer found Skoog at the front of the net for the senior's second strike of the night.
• Duplessis remained on the bench after that goal as BU pushed to cut further into the deficit, but a BC empty-netter closed the scoring.

GAME NOTES

• Brown's first four-point effort of the season was on Oct. 22 when he had two goals and two assists in a 5-2 win over UConn.
• He leads BU in goals (8), assists (14) and points (22).
• Skoog's other three-point game as a Terrier was on March 4, 2022, when he also had two goals and one assist in a 5-1 win at Maine.
• Both Fensore and O'Brien extended their respective point streaks to five games.
• Junior Drew Commesso started the game and made 21 saves through two periods while Duplessis finished with seven stops.
• Duplessis has not allowed a 5-on-5 goal in his last eight periods of work.
• BC went 3-for-3 on the power play while BU was 1-of-2, with the Terriers' second chance coming with just 32 seconds remaining in regulation.
• This was the highest-scoring BU-BC contest since Dec. 2, 1986, which was also a 9-6 BC win.

UP NEXT

• BU will finish the first semester on Sunday when the Terriers trek to Hartford to face No. 8 UConn.
• Puck drop is scheduled for 2 p.m.