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Boston College Matched-up With Boston University In Beanpot Final
February 13, 2007 | Women's Hockey
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Feb. 13, 2007
#9 Boston College Eagles (19-8-2, 12-6-0 HEA) vs. Boston University Terriers (17-9-3, 8-7-2 HEA)
The 29th Annual Women's Beanpot Tournament
@ Boston College, Conte Forum (Chestnut Hill, Mass.)
Championship Night
5:00 p.m. - Consolation
Northeastern vs. #6 Harvard
8:00 p.m. - Final
#9 Boston College vs. Boston University
BEANPOT ACTION RECAP
Boston University and Boston College each advanced to tonight's Beanpot Championship Game
by defeating Northeastern, 4-2, and Harvard, 4-3 in triple-overtime. The Terriers rallied from an
0-2 first period deficit in game one of the double-header thanks to captains Cara Hendry and
Gina Kearns who each tallied goals. Erin Seman notched the gamewinner with just over five
minutes remaining in the game, while Julie Poulin potted an empty-netter to solidify the win.
The nightcap took much longer to decide--an extra 54:13 after regulation expired. Allie Thunstrom and Meghan Fardelmann gave the Eagles a 2-0 lead in the first period over the visiting Harvard Crimson, but Jennifer Sifers and Katie Johnston tied things up in the second stanza. Kelli Stack and the Eagles thought they had the game sealed when Stack struck at 11:56 in the final frame. The lead was short-lived, though, as the Crimson scored the equalizer 12 seconds later. At 12:21 a.m. during the third overtime, Anna McDonald, in her first game back in four weeks due to injury, poked the game-winning goal past Brittany Martin off her own rebound.
LOOKING FOR A REPEAT
The Eagles defeated Harvard in last year's Beanpot Championship Game, 2-0, for their first title.
A win tonight for Boston College will earn the program their first back-to-back Beanpot titles.
Five times in the history of the women's tournament has a team won multiple titles in a row.
BC vs. THE TERRIERS
Tonight's game will be the fourth time this season that the Eagles and Terriers have met, and the
third time on Kelley Rink. Boston College defeated its cross-town rival, 5-2, on November 4
before Boston University earned the program's first win, 3-1, over the Eagles on January 19 at
Walter Brown Arena. The Eagles responded the next day with a 6-0 blanking. BC leads the alltime
series, 14-1-1. BU will be the home team in tonight's contest.
BC vs THE TERRIERS IN THE BEANPOT
The Eagles have never played the Terriers in the Beanpot since BU became a Division I program
last season. BC has gone 15-6-0 against the BU club team in the Beanpot, with the last
meeting coming on February 8, 2005 in a 9-1 Eagle win. The last time the Terriers defeated
the Eagles in a Beanpot game was in the 1988 Consolation Game, 3-2. BU won the last meeting
between the schools in the Third Annual Beanpot Championship, 4-0, on February 20,
1981.
SCOUTING THE TERRIERS
The Terriers inched closer towards the coveted fourth slot in the Hockey East standings and
extended its unbeaten streak to three games when they battled to a 3-1 win over Providence in
Boston on Saturday. A pair of goals in the first period by Nicki Wiart and Gina Kearns lifted
BU to the victory. Kearns potted an empty net goal with one second remaining to close out the
scoring.
Head coach Brian Durocher's squad is led by freshman Melissa Anderson in scoring with 28 points (10 goals, 18 assists). Sophomore Allyse Wilcox and Melissa Haber split the goaltending duties, going 9-7-1 and 8- 2-2, respectively. Haber clocks in with a .920 save percentage and a 1.82 GAA, while Wilcox put in 28 saves in last week's Beanpot semifinal victory over Northeastern.
BC IN THE BEANPOT
The Eagles are 21-35-0 alltime
in Beanpot action,
including a 1-8-0 record in
the title game. Boston
College is 4-15-0 against
Harvard in Beanpot games, 2-
14-0 against Northeastern and
15-6-0 against Boston
University. Since becoming a
varsity program in 1994 the Eagles have had increasing success in the annual event, earning a
13-10-0 record, 3-2-0 while hosting the Tournament at Conte Forum. Boston College won the
tournament once (2006), finished second eight times, third 14 times, and fourth five times.
SCHAUS IN THE BOOKS
Freshman goalie Molly Schaus made 73 saves last Tuesday night in the Beanpot semifinal--
one save shy of the school record set by Christy Nentwig on February 22, 1997 against
Northeastern with 74 saves of her own. Schaus played her way into the NCAA record book,
which didn't begin compiling records until the 2001-02 season, eclipsing the previous record of
70 saves held by Sacred Heart's Stephanie Boulay on January 8, 2005 against Maine.
THREE'S COMPANY
For the third time this season, Molly Schaus received the Defensive Player of the Week from
Hockey East on Monday. The goalie stopped 93 of the 99 shots she faced over two games last
week. In total, she played 172:50 between the pipes and put up a .939 save percentage.
THE BEANPOT IN OVERTIME
The Beanpot Championship Game has gone into overtime three times: 1996, 2000, and 2001.
Boston University has never played a final which went into overtime, while Boston College
lost, 4-3, to Northeastern in one overtime on February 13, 1996, exactly 11 years ago.
THE ROAD AHEAD
Boston College plays a home-and-home series against Providence on Saturday and Sunday,
February 18-19. Saturday's game at 1:00 p.m. will be played at Schneider Arena in Providence
and then both teams will travel up to Chestnut Hill for a 2:00 p.m. rematch on Sunday.
