Northeastern Up Next For Eagles On Thursday Night

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will host the Northeastern Huskies on Thursday night in a non-conference clash. The game, which begins a three-game home stand for the Eagles, will be available for streaming on ACCNX, which streams live on the ESPN App.

Boston College vs. Northeastern
Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019 | 7:00 p.m.
Newton Campus Soccer Field | Newton, Mass.

A WIN OVER NORTHEASTERN WOULD . . .
• Move Boston College to 5-0 on the year.
• Bump the Eagles to 15-0-1 in the all-time series against the Huskies.

ABOUT NORTHEASTERN
• The Huskies are coming off a 4-1 win over Harvard on Friday night ... four different players scored in the home win while Angeline Friel made three saves for the win in her first start of the season.
• Goalkeeper Megan Adams is 1-1-0 with four saves and two goals against on the year.
• Chelsea Domond leads Northeastern with five points on two goals and one assist ... Halle McCabe has a team-high three assists.
• Northeastern finished 2018 with a 10-9-1 record, advancing to the CAA semifinals before falling to Hofstra, 1-0.
• Julianne Ross was named the CAA Preseason Defensive Player of the Year ... Ross and Mikenna McManus were named to the Preseason All-CAA Women's Soccer Team.
• Head coach Ashley Phillips is in her fourth season as the head coach of the Huskies.

SERIES HISTORY VS NORTHEASTERN
• Boston College holds a record of 14-0-1 in the all-time series with Northeastern.
• The Eagles and Huskies first clashed on Sept. 29, 1998 ... BC took the neutral site meeting, 6-0.
• In last year's meeting - just the fourth time BC has played a true road match against Northeastern - Gianna Mitchell scored the game-winner in the 1-0 affair.
• BC and Northeastern have met twice in the NCAA tournament, with the Eagles advancing with wins in 2008 (4-0) and 2013 (2-0).

UP NEXT
• BC will remain at home to host New Hampshire at 2 p.m. on Sept. 8.

IT'S WORTH NOTING
• Current Boston College assistant coach Jami Kranich played for the Boston Breakers (NWSL) during the 2015 and 2016 seasons, with Northeastern head coach Ashley Phillips serving as the goalkeeper coach.

LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College moved to 4-0 on the 2019 season with a 2-1 win at Princeton on Sunday night.
• It marked the first road game - and road win - of the season for the Eagles.
• Sam Smith scored twice in the first half, redirecting home the eventual game-winner in the 34th minute ... Emily Langenderfer and Riley Lochhead each assisted on a goal.
• Allie Augur made two stops for her third win of the year.

SPREAD THE WEALTH
• Through the first four games of the season, 12 different players have notched at least one point for the Eagles.
• BC had 14 total point-getters in the 2018 and 2017 seasons.
• Through the first three games of the 2019 season, Boston College received goals from seven different players and at least one point from 11 different Eagles.
• It marked the first time BC has had at least seven different goal scorers through the first three games of the season since 2010 ... seven different Eagles found the back of the net through the first three games of that season that ended in the College Cup.

FOUR TO START
• BC's four consecutive wins to open the 2019 season marks just the second time since the 2009 season that BC has started a season with four consecutive wins.
• The Eagles kicked off the 2018 season with 10 consecutive wins.
• BC's 2009 season began with nine consecutive wins.

FAST STARTS
• Boston College has scored by the 10th minute in three out of four contests this season.
• Samantha Agresti's goal 4:01 into the season-opener against UMass on Aug. 25 marked BC's fastest goal to start a season since Lauren Bernard scored 6:12 into a season-opening 2-1 overtime loss against Stanford on Aug. 23, 2013.
• Olivia Vaughn put home a goal 4:48 into a win over UMass Lowell on Aug. 25.
• Samantha Agresti's goal was BC's first scored in the fifth minute since Hayley Dowd scored 4:36 into a 3-0 win against Pitt on Sept. 22, 2016.
• Stephanie McCaffrey once scored 31 seconds into a 3-2 loss to USF on Sept. 18, 2014.

ABOUT HEAD COACH JASON LOWE
• Jason Lowe was named the program's fifth head coach on Jan. 9, 2019.
• Lowe arrived on the Heights after serving on the coaching staff at Wake Forest since 2014, including 2017 and 2018 as associate head coach.
• The Shaker Heights, Ohio native helped the Demon Deacons reach the NCAA tournament Round of 32 in 2017 and the Sweet 16 in 2018.
• Prior to Wake Forest, Lowe served as an assistant coach at Alabama for five seasons and two years at Emory.
• Lowe served as a goalkeeper for the Wake Forest men's soccer team from 1994-97.
• In addition to receiving his bachelor's degree in 1998, Lowe also earned his MBA from Wake Forest in 2002.

Northeastern Up Next For Eagles On Thursday Night

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Players Mentioned

Samantha Agresti

Allie Augur

Emily Langenderfer

Riley Lochhead

Gianna Mitchell

Sam Smith

Olivia Vaughn