CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston University women's ice hockey team fell to No. 15 Boston College 5-3 in the first meeting of the Comm. Ave foes this season.
 
BU got on the board in the first period before BC answered in the second. Both teams scored an additional goal in the middle frame to enter the third tied. BC got ahead but the Terriers tied things up on the power play to keep the game even for most of the final frame. Eventually, the Eagles secured the 5-3 win with two goals late in the third.
 
Sophomore Sydney Healey scored the lamplighter and fellow sophomore Clara Yuhn netted BU's second goal. Freshman Neely Nicholson scored on the power play for the second time this season to net BU's third and final goal.
 
Graduate student Alexa Matses made 27 saves between the posts in the loss.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• Both teams skated evenly through most of the first period.
• Just after the halfway mark, a BC pass was intercepted by sophomore Lilli Welcke who sent it into the neutral zone for Healey to pick it up before she fought her way through two Eagles to send a wrister from the slot into the net.
• BU held a 1-0 lead headed into the second frame.
• Despite a penalty kill that lasted through the beginning of the second period, BC found some momentum with a backhander goal at the 2:39 mark after an initial save from Matses.
• BU was quick to regain the lead when sophomore Brooke Disher sent a pass across the BC zone to Martin who fired off a shot that was tipped in by Clara Yuhn just over a minute after the equalizer.
• Just over midway through the period, BC scooped up a loose puck at the BU blue line and took it up the ice and tied the game 2-2 with a shot from the near side of the right circle.
• The Eagles pulled ahead for the first time with 14:21 to go in the third after they took passes up the ice and scored from the slot.
• BC in the box for interference gave BU the advantage it needed on the power play as passes from seniors Andi Calderone and Martin found Nicholson who scored from the near side of the right circle.
• Both teams put pressure on each end of the ice until 16:05 when a scramble at BU's net resulted in BC's fourth and final goal which stood after a challenge from BU for offsides.
• In the final 1:33 minutes, BU pulled Matses from the posts but BC scored on the empty net to defeat BU, 5-3.

 
GAME NOTES

• BU went 1-for-2 on the power play while BC went 0-for-1.
• The Eagles narrowly outshot the Terriers, 32 to 30.
• Both teams won 27 faceoffs.
• Nicholson has now scored twice on the power play this season.

UP NEXT

• BU will travel to Providence for a 3:30 p.m. game on Saturday.