BOSTON - The Boston University women's ice hockey team fell to No. 5 Northeastern by a score of 5-1 in its final regular-season home game on Friday evening at Walter Brown Arena.
Senior
Nadia Mattivi scored a power-play goal midway through the game to cut the Huskies' lead to 2-1 but the visitors added two goals late in the second and tacked on another in the final minute of regulation.
Mattivi and her classmates were honored during a pregame ceremony along with head coach
Brian Durocher, who announced earlier this week that he would be retiring from coaching at season's end.
BU moves to 11-18-3 on the year and 9-14-3 in Hockey East play. Northeastern, which got a hat trick from Alina Mueller, improves to 29-2-1 with a 23-2-1 conference mark.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Mueller opened the scoring off a rebound just nine seconds into a power play in the first period.
- The goal came at 16:20 with assists from Maureen Murphy and Chloe Aurard.
- The visitors doubled their lead 4:53 into the second whe Murphy found Mueller open all alone at the foot of the right circle.
- Mattivi made it a one-goal game less than four minutes later on a power play when she took a pass from classmate Julia Nearis and drilled a shot from the center point to the back of the net.
- The Huskies reestablished a two-goal cushion late in the middle stanza when Murphy converted a shot on a power play.
- Northeastern made it a 4-1 contest entering the last period when Mueller capped her hat trick in the final second of the second.
- Kate Holmes scored on an empty-net with 22.5 seconds left in the game to create the 5-1 final.
GAME NOTES
- Andrea Brändli totaled 32 saves for the Terriers while Gwyneth Philips made 17 to earn the win for the Huskies.
- The Huskies went 2-for-5 on the power play while BU went 1-for-4.
- Freshman Brooke Disher assisted on Mattivi's goal and now has 10 points (4g, 6a) in the past 10 games.
UP NEXT
- The crosstown rivals will meet again on Saturday (Feb. 18) to close out the regular season.
- Game time at Matthews Arena is set for 7 p.m.
