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Harvard Awaits No. 7 BC in First Round of the 41st Beanpot
February 04, 2019 | Women's Hockey
Crimson, Eagles set to meet for the 42nd time in the series and for the 18th time in the Beanpot.
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All four games of the tournament will be broadcast on ESPN+ and NESNPlus and will also be available for streaming via the TSN.Ca/TSN App. BC's game against the Crimson will also be carried live on the radio 1120 AM WBNW.
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Tuesday's semifinal clash will be BC's first meeting with Harvard this season. The teams squared off twice last season in non-conference play, with the Eagles winning 8-1 and 6-2. BC and Harvard have met 41 times in the all-time series, with 17 of those games coming in the Beanpot. Harvard holds the overall lead at 25-15-1 but BC has won the last five meetings between the crosstown rivals.
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Boston College (18-9-0, 15-7-0 HEA) moved its unbeaten streak to six games on Friday, Feb. 1 with a 6-0 win over Holy Cross. The Eagles had six different goal scorers and three players with three points each while Maddy McArthur made 16 saves for her fifth shutout of the year. MaArthur was named the Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week for her performance.
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Harvard (7-11-3, 6-8-2 ECAC Hockey) is unbeaten in its last three contests after sweeping Yale, 5-2, and Brown, 4-0, this past weekend. The team is 6-5-0 at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center. Lexie Laing has a team-high 16 points on six goals and 10 assists while three other skaters are in double-digit points.
GAME 29 | Women's Beanpot SemifinalÂ
No. 7/7 Boston College (19-9-0, 16-7-0 HEA) at Harvard (7-11-3, 6-8-2 ECAC Hockey)
Bright-Landry Hockey Center | Chestnut Hill, Mass.
Friday, Feb. 1, 2019 | 6 p.m.
BEANPOT HISTORY
• Boston College has appeared in all 40 editions of the Beanpot, playing the first 16 as a club program (1979-1994) and the last 24 as a varsity program (1995-present)
• The Eagles won their first Beanpot in 2006 and have won all seven of their titles in the last 12 seasons ... BC was the Beanpot champion in 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2017
• Boston College has appeared in 14 of the last 18 championship games - including each of the last six with 2018 - missing the final in 2004, 2008, 2010 and 2012
ABOUT BOSTON COLLEGE
• The Eagles moved their unbeaten streak to six games on Friday, Feb. 1 with a 6-0 win over Holy Cross in their single game last week.
• BC had six different goal scorers in that win and three players with three points each ... Maddy McArthur made 16 saves for her fifth shutout of the year and earned Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week.
• Kelly Browne (1-2-3) set a career-high while Kali (0-3-3) Flanagan and Serena Sommerfield (1-2-3) both tied a career-high in points with three each.
• The win over the Crusaders came after a weekend sweep of a home-and-home seris with Providence.
• BC scored early on in both contests with the Friars and then held off some Providence comeback bids for a pair of 4-2 wins ... McArthur earned both wins.
• Megan Keller (14-20-34) leads the team in points while Daryl Watts (15-15-30) is second in points and tops in goals.
• BC has played 23 conference contests and is currently second in the standings with 32 points ... Northeastern is first with 38 through 22 games played and BU is third with 29 points in 22 games.
ABOUT HARVARD
• Harvard enter's Tuesday's Beanpot semifinal game unbeaten in its last three contests.
• The Crimson swept Yale, 5-2, and Brown, 4-0, this past weekend ... the weekend before, Harvard played to a scoreless overtime tie with St. Lawrence, which halted a three-game skid.
• Harvard is 7-11-3 overall and 6-8-2 in ECAC Hockey play ... the team has a mark of 6-5-0 at Bright-Landry.
• Lexie Laing has a team-high 16 points on six goals and 10 assists ... three other skaters are in double-digit points for Harvard.
• Rookie Dominique Petrie captained the U.S. Under-18 Women's National team at the IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship ... the forward has seven points with four goals and three assists in 11 games played.
• Freshman Lindsay Reed sports a 2.04 goals against average and a .941 save percentage that ranks third in the country.
• Harvard is 27-13-1 in opening round games and 16-9-0 against Boston College.
IT'S WORTH NOTING
• Juniors Lindsay Agnew, Delaney Belinskas, Erin Connolly, Caitrin Lonergan and Bridget McCarthy recently suited up for the 100th career games.
• Kali Flanagan and Ryan Little each played in their 146th career games, good for a tie for 12th in program history.
• Freshman Kelly Browne is second among conference rookies in face-off wins with 257 (sixth overall) ... she led all freshman in the country in face-off wins in the month of November with 75.
• Megan Keller has registered at least one point in 22 of her 27 games played this season.
• Lonergan's .610 face-off winning percentage is fourth in the league.
• Daryl Watts is fourth in Hockey East with an average of 4.79 shots on goal per game while Lonergan is seventh with an average of 4.27.
• Among forwards, Makenna Newkirk's 38 blocks leads all of Hockey East and is 12th in the country.
• BC started Hockey East play 5-0-0 for the first time since the 2015-16 season.
BALANCED ATTACK
• BC has 11 players in double-digit points and seven players with at least 15 points.
• Nine different players have scored game-winning goals for BC … six of those players have scored multiple game-winning goals.
• The Eagles have 20 players with at least one point and 17 players have scored at least one goal.
• Seven players have scored at least five goals for the Eagles … 10 players have potted at least three goals.
KELLER MAKING THE CASE
• Megan Keller leads all defensemen nationally in scoring with 34 points on 14 goals and 20 assists.
• The senior leads all defenders or is tied for first in goals, assists, points, goals per game (0.52), points per game (1.26), power-play goals (5) and game-winning goals (4).
• Ohio State's Jincy Dunne sits second with 23 points while the next-closest points per game average is Cornell's Jaime Bourbonnais at 1.11.Â
• Among all skaters in the country, Keller ranks in the top 20 in points, goals, assists, power-play points and points per game.
• The last defender to average at least 1.25 points per game for a season was Keller when she finished her sophomore 2015-16 season at 1.27 per game.
• Keller has 91 shots on goal and is averaging 3.37 shots on goal per game, with both of those numbers ranking fourth and third, respectively, among blue liners.
• She has 35 blocks and a plus-30 rating.
• The Farmington Hills, Mich. native set a new Hockey East single-season points record for a defender on Jan. 25 against Providence and has a 13-16-29 scoring line in conference play ... her 13 goals are tied for a single-season high by a blue liner.
• Her nine career game-winning goals sit tied for 12th in program history.
• In the month of January, Keller was on the ice for 71 percent of BC's even-strength goals and on the season...she's been on the ice for 56 percent of all BC's even-strength goals.Â
DEFENSE CHIPPIN' IN
• The Eagles' defensive corps is first in the nation in points (90), points per game (3.21), goals (23) and assists (67).
• Megan Keller (14-20-34) leads all blue liners in points while Cayla Barnes (3-12-15) is tied for 13th and leads all rookie blue liners.
• BC defensemen have scored a nation-leading seven game-winning goals and sit second in power-play goals with eight.Â
• The BC defense has chipped in on 25% of the squad's goals (23/93), 43% of the assists (58/160) and 35% of the overall points (91/263).
