Thursday, April 19
Newton, Mass.
5:00 PM
Boston College
vs
Syracuse
Photo by: Jerome Davis
Perfect Regular Season on the Line Thursday vs. Syracuse
April 17, 2018 | Lacrosse
Eagles will host the Orange in the regular-season finale, looking to close out a perfect regular season
No. 2 Boston College (16-0, 6-0 ACC) vs. No. 16 Syracuse (8-7, 0-5 ACC)
Thursday, April 19, 2018 | 5 p.m.
Newton Campus Fields | Newton, Mass.
PASSING SHOTS
SERIES HISTORY
LAST TIME VS. SYRACUSE
WINNING WAYS
UPDATED RPI IS OUT
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Thursday, April 19, 2018 | 5 p.m.
Newton Campus Fields | Newton, Mass.
PASSING SHOTS
- Boston College claimed its first-ever ACC regular-season championship on Saturday after defeating No. 13 Virginia Tech, 9-7, in Newton ... the Eagles can clinch outright control of the championship with a victory on Thursday against Syracuse
- BC also earned the No. 1 overall seed in the ACC Championship with Saturday's victory ... it will be the Eagles' highest seeding at the conference's annual event
- Last time out, the Eagles notched their program-record 16th consecutive victory
- The Eagles' 16 wins now mark the program's second-highest single-season win total, passing the old mark of 15 in both 2014 and 2015 ... the record of 17 wins was set last year in 2017 ... a victory on Thursday would match the team's program record for single-season wins
- With six ACC victories so far, BC now has its best-ever conference win total ... prior to this year, Boston College's 5-2 mark in ACC play in 2015 was the team's record for league wins in any year of conference play - ACC (2006 to present) or BIG EAST (2001-05)
- BC swept ACC weekly awards on Tuesday as Sam Apuzzo won her third Offensive Player of the Week award and Dempsey Arsenault claimed Defensive Player of the Week honors, her first of the campaign
- Sam Apuzzo ranks second in the nation in points (91) and goals (63) and is 23rd in assists (28) ... Dempsey Arsenault is ranked 14th in points (69) and 17th in goals (48) ... Kaileen Hart ranks 29th in points (59) and 41st in assists (24)
- While the Eagles' offense ranks fifth nationally averaging 16.19 goals per game, BC's defense is ranked No. 10 nationally with an 8.94 goals allowed per game mark ... the Eagles have allowed 12 or fewer goals in 14 of 16 games, and 9 or fewer goals in eight games
- Sam Apuzzo and Dempsey Arsenault have combined for 169 of BC's 257 draw controls this season ... Apuzzo's 93 DCs so far are a career high and are second most in a single-season in BC history - just six back of Brittany Wilton's program record 99 in 2011 ... Arsenault's 76 DCs so far are tied with Wilton's 2012 mark for the third-highest single-season total ... both have set the school single-game DC record this year, first Apuzzo at 11 then Arsenault with 12 on March 17
- Tess Chandler netted her 100th career goal on Saturday against VTech
- Apuzzo comes into the weekend with 235 career points and is fifth on the Eagles' career scoring chart, 13 points back of fourth place (Lauren Costello '10, 248 pts.)
- Dempsey Arsenault enters Thursday's game with 94 career points and is looking to become the newest member of the Eagles' 100-Point Club
- BC's 2018 schedule is currently the 10th toughest in the nation as its opponents have a combined .625 winning percentage ... BC has played nine ranked teams, going 9-0 so far against ranked foes
- Seven Eagles were recognized by Inside Lacrosse in the publication's Midseason All-America rankings ... Apuzzo, Arsenault and Elizabeth Miller all garnered first-team honors, while Lauren Daly, Carly Bell, Hannah Hyatt and Brooke Troy all earned honorable mention recognition
SERIES HISTORY
- BC is 3-15 all-time against Syracuse ... included in that total is a 1-6 mark at home, a 2-6 record on the road and an 0-3mark in neutral games
- The teams first met in non-conference play in 1998, playing three seasons before the Big East lacrosse conference was formed for the 2001 season ... from 2001 through 2005, the teams met annually in league play ... after BC departed for the ACC, the programs met for a two-year non-conference series in 2012 and 2013 before the Orange joined the ACC in 2014
- The programs have met in the ACC Tournament twice (2015, 2016) - both Orange wins - and twice in the NCAA Tournament (2014, 2017), both in Syracuse where the teams split the meetings
- Syracuse won the first 12 meetings between the teams, from 1998 through 2014's NCAA Tournament appearance
- BC claimed its first-ever win over Syracuse on Feb. 28, 2015 in the Carrier Dome
- Since that meeting, BC is 3-3 against the Orange, with the teams playing once each postseason every year since 2015
- BC's lone home win over Syracuse came in 2016 - the Orange's last visit to Newton
LAST TIME VS. SYRACUSE
- The teams last met on May 14, 2017, in Syracuse in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament ... BC claimed its first-ever win in Syracuse, taking a dominant 21-10 victory over the ninth-ranked Orange to advance to the Elite Eight
- Down 3-2 with 20:00 left in the first, the Eagles went on a 9-2 run over the next 12 and a half minutes to take a 11-5 lead at 7:30
- Keyed by six points (three goals, three assists) from Kayla O'Connor in that spurt, BC used the run to take a 12-7 advantage into the halftime break
- The Eagles scored the first three goals of the second half and pushed the lead to 15-7
- Syracuse responded with a pair of their own to pull within six at 15-9 with 18:03 to play
- Boston College's defense held the Orange scoreless for the next 13:00 – and the offense rattled off a 5-0 run to close the game and advance to the NCAA Quarterfinals
- O'Connor (3G, 4A) and Sam Apuzzo (5G, 2A) each had seven points, while Kenzie Kent (3G, 3A) and Katie Weeks (4G, 2A) each added six points
WINNING WAYS
- The Eagles' 16 wins so far this season mark the program's second-highest single-season victory mark, passing the old mark of 15 originally set in 2014 and 2015
- The team's single-season wins record is 17, set last year in 2017 in 24 games
UPDATED RPI IS OUT
- The newly released RPI rankings have the Eagles sitting atop the charts
- BC comes into Week 2 of the release rated No. 1 in the country, ahead of Maryland and North Carolina, who are Nos. 2 and 3, respectively
- Florida and James Madison round out the top 5
- Seven of the ACC's eight teams appear in the Top 29 of this week's RPI ratings
- The RPI helps the NCAA Committee select the at-large berths to the annual NCAA Tournament ... the D1 women's lacrosse tournament field is made up 26 teams: 13 automatic qualifiers as conference tournament champions and 13 at-large selections
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