Terriers Bested by Crimson at Home, 1-0

Thursday, September 5

Boston, MA

7 PM

Boston University

0-4-2

Harvard

3-0-1

Harvard

Photo by: Matt Woolverton

September 5, 2024 | Women's Soccer

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BOSTON – The Boston University women's soccer program dropped a 1-0 contest to Harvard on Thursday evening at Nickerson Field.

A defense standoff saw both teams combine for just four shots in the first half. However, the Crimson (3-0-1) scored in the 32nd minute, and limited the Terriers (0-4-2) to just one shot after halftime.

Senior Morgan Fagan, junior Giulianna Gianino, and sophomore Samantha Aronson each recorded one shot for BU. Goalkeeper Celia Braun made three saves.

Susie Long notched the lone goal of the match on a pass from Nicola Golen. Rhiannon Stewart totaled one save in her fourth-straight shutout.

HOW IT HAPPENED

BU needed just 25 seconds to place a shot on goal, as Gianino worked free from a Harvard marker to poke a bouncing shot that Stewart tipped to the left. Harvard cleared the ensuing corner kick.
Jasmine Leshnick nearly finished a cross from the left corner in the fifth minute, but her touch by the right post sailed wide right of the post.
Neither team recorded a shot from that point until the 27th minute, when Fagan worked around her defender at the top-right corner of the 18-yard box for a shot that zipped wide left.
On Harvard's goal in the 32nd minute, Golen entered the box on a move to her left and flicked a cross towards the right post. Long, who had just entered the game, beat Braun with her left foot.
The Crimson recorded the first shot after halftime, when Leshnick's 20-yard blast was sent wide left in the 50th minute.
The visitors continued to threaten in the 57th minute, but Braun easily collected a Golen header for her first save of the night.
Braun made two stops in the 64th minute on Sarah Lloyd. After the netminder interrupted a cross that later hit the post, she denied Llyod in front of the left iron, then smothered the Crimson forward's second attempt at the same spot.
The Terriers' final chance came from Aronson's boot in the 76th minute following Fagan's cross from the right corner, but the sophomore's shot carried over the crossbar.

STATS

Shots favored Harvard 8-3, including a 6-1 edge in the second half.
The Crimson had two corner kicks compared to the Terriers' one, with all three occurring in the first 45 minutes.
Freshman Jaiden Schultz sustained the lone yellow card of the match in the 59th minute.
Braun, Gianino, and defenders Helene Tyburczy and Allison Hanlon played the entire 90 minutes.

NOTES

Hanlon has played the full match in back-to-back games for the first time in her career.
Tyburczy did so for the first time as a Terrier.
BU's three shots were its fewest in a game since Aug. 31, 2023 at Northwestern.
Five of the Terriers' first six matches have been decided by one or fewer goals.
BU has lost back-to-back games for the first time since Aug. 28-Sept. 4, 2022.
The all-time series between BU and Harvard is now even at 10-10-6.

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