BOSTON - The Boston University women's ice hockey team closed out its regular season on Saturday evening with a 4-0 loss to No. 5 Northeastern at Matthews Arena. Graduate student Andrea Brändli made a season-high 45 saves in goal.

The Terriers will enter the Hockey East playoffs as the No. 7 seed and will host 10th-seeded Merrimack in the first round on Wednesday (Feb. 22) at 7 p.m.

BU finishes the regular season with a record of 11-19-3 and a 9-15-3 mark in conference play. 

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Huskies had four different goal scorers on the night and took the lead midway through the first on a power-play goal by Katy Knoll. 
• Molly Griffin doubled Northeastern's lead 3:30 into the second and Mia Brown made it a 3-0 lead on another power-play mark at 17:19 of the period.
• Peyton Anderson created the 4-0 final with a tally at 10:37 of the third.
• BU had at least one power-play chance in each period but were unable to find the back of the net

GAME NOTES

• Brändli made 24 of her 45 saves in the second period alone.
• Gwyneth Philips stopped all 21 shots she faced for NU before Alexa Matses played the final 3:27 and made one save to close out the shutout.
• Junior Tamara Gianquinto had a team-high three blocked shots to raise her team-leading season total to 55.
• BU was 0-for-4 on the power play while the Huskies were 2-for-5.

UP NEXT

• The postseason starts on Wednesday (Feb. 22) when the Terriers host Merrimack for a 7 p.m. contest in the first round of the Hockey East tournament.
• A win would send BU to Vermont for the quarterfinal round on Saturday (Feb. 25).