BOSTON - BU women's lacrosse (7-7, 2-4 PL) dropped a 19-8 decision to No. 7 Boston College (11-3, 6-1 ACC) Tuesday evening. In the loss, four Terriers scored and junior
Reilly Agres and senior
Arielle Hammer made a combined nine saves in net.
Grad student
Maddie MacMaster led the scoring for BU with four goals of her own. Also netting multiple goals was senior
Claire Gola who scored two. Freshman
Jayne Feeney and senior
Jennifer Barry each scored one apiece for the Terriers.
Sophomore
Hannah Tillier found herself in the points column after logging an assist on MacMaster's second goal of the game. MacMaster registered her fifth point of the day with an assist on Feeney's goal while Feeney made it a two-point day of her own with an assist on Gola's second.Â
HOW IT HAPPENED
- BC's Jenn Medjid scored the first three goals for the Eagles through 12:08 in the first quarter.
- The Eagles went up 4-0 in the first five minutes before BU could answer.
- MacMaster lit the lamp for the Terriers with 7:58 to go in the first.
- BC went on a run through the remainder of the opening frame to lead 10-1 after 15 minutes.
- The Eagles found the back of the net two more times to start the second quarter.
- A yellow card on BC allowed BU a woman-up advantage on which Gola scored with help from Tillier.
- Goals went back and forth in the final three minutes of the half. BC scored at the 3:00 mark and MacMaster netted her second with 1:43 left.
- A yellow card to BC gave BU an advantage, but it was the Eagles that scored with three seconds remaining in the half.
- The Eagles led 14-3 with one half in the books.
- BU played toe-to-toe with BC for the entire second half of the game.
- The Terriers netted the first two goals of the third thanks to Barry at 11:09 and MacMaster at 6:49.
- BC responded with two goals of its own at 5:18 and fifteen seconds to close the quarter. Its second goal in that segment was on a woman-up advantage.
- The fourth quarter started the same as the third, with a goal at 13:29 from MacMaster.
- At 10:31 to go, MacMaster found Feeney in front of the net who scored BU's seventh goal and cut BC's lead to nine goals.
- Another goal from the Eagles put them up 17-7 with 9:38 remaining.
- Feeney assisted Gola on the Terriers' final goal of the game at the 7:43 mark.
- BC went on to score a pair of goals to close out the game and bring the final score to BC 19, BU 8.
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GAME NOTES
- BC outshot BU 28 to 13.
- The Terriers controlled 11 draws to the Eagles' 17.
- BU scooped up eight ground balls while BC only collected five.Â
- Both BU and BC went 13-for-13 on the clear.
- BU's eight goals were the most scored against BC since 2017 when BU netted 11.
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UP NEXT
- BU returns to Patriot League play with a road contest at Lehigh on Saturday (April 15). Opening draw is set for 6 p.m.