BOSTON - Junior Jimmy Kohr scored a career-best six goals and added two assists for a career-high eight points to lead the Boston University men's lacrosse team to a 15-6 win over Monmouth on Friday afternoon at Nickerson Field.

BU (2-0) never trailed in its home opener, holding a 5-0 lead after one quarter and taking a 10-2 lead into the second half. Kohr was a big part of that first-half outburst, as he scored five of his six goals in the opening 30 minutes. Senior Jimmy O'Connell also had a career day, notching his first-ever hat trick and adding a career-best three assists for six points. Freshman Timothy Shannehan, the other member of the Terriers' starting attack trio, notched two goals and set new career highs with four assists and six points. Kohr, O'Connell and Shannehan combined for 11 goals and nine assists as all three players had career days.

Freshman Mike Rooney scored his first two collegiate goals while classmate Andrew Pape notched his first collegiate goal. Junior Tommy Garofalo also found the back of the net. Junior transfer Sam Burns notched an assist in his Terrier debut while sophomore Tyler Fox and senior Brenden Kelly each had one helper apiece.

Defensively, junior Matt Freeman had a monster day for the Terriers. He matched the single-game program record with six caused turnovers in addition to collecting four ground balls. Kohr also had three caused turnovers as part of a Terrier ride that forced nine failed clears. Senior Matthew Fritz went 9-for-13 at the X with four ground balls while freshman Madden Murphy was 4-for-6 with three ground balls. 

Senior Will Barnes made six saves and allowed just three goals in 49:29 of work before giving way to classmate Mike Allieri, who made one save in just over 10 minutes of action.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• The Terriers scored the first five goals of the game, with Kohr starting things off a feed from Shannehan just 1:16 into the contest.
• Rooney's first collegiate goal came when he dodged down the left alley and ripped home a shot.
• Kelly connected with O'Connell at 7:45 to make it 3-0 before Kohr fed Shannehan for a goal just 40 seconds later.
• Kohr then closed the quarter with his second strike of the day with 2:38 on the clock.
• Connor Gorman scored on an EMO to get Monmouth on the board with 9:29 left in the second quarter.
• Kohr then scored a fantastic behind-the-back goal to make it 6-1 with 7:35 to go in the first half.
• Burns found O'Connell less than a minute later to make it 7-1 before Jake Schneider cut the deficit to 7-2 moments later.
• Kohr's fourth goal of the day on the Terriers' first EMO of the day made it 8-2 before a diving effort from O'Connell pushed the advantage to 9-2.
• Kohr closed the half with his fifth strike of the afternoon.
• An unassisted effort from Pape opened the scoring in the second half at 11:17.
• Monmouth answered 30 seconds later and that was the final goal of the quarter until Shannehan converted a feed from Kohr to make it a 13-4 game.
• Kohr completed his sock trick with 9:03 to go, his goal coming between a pair of Monmouth strikes.
• Garofalo and Rooney each scored to make it a 15-5 game before Bobby Keane ended the scoring at 1:24.

GAME NOTES

• Kohr came one goal shy of matching the program record for goals in a game; he finished the day with the program's 15th six-goal performance.
• Freeman became the sixth different Terrier to record six caused turnovers in a game, which has now happened seven times in program history.
• This was the second straight game that BU held its opponent scoreless in the first quarter.
• The Terriers have allowed just 13 goals through their first two games, which is the second-lowest goal total through two contests. BU allowed five goals in season-opening wins over Providence and UMass Lowell in 2016.
• BU went 2-for-2 on EMOs.
• The Terriers took 49 shots to just 21 for Monmouth and also won the ground ball battle, 32-23.
• BU finished 14-for-24 at the faceoff X.
• Not only was the Terrier ride successful, but BU went 22-for-23 in the clearing game.

UP NEXT

• BU will continue its three-game homestand on Tuesday, Feb. 18, when the Terriers host Brown at Nickerson Field.
• Opening faceoff is set for 7 p.m.