Eagles Head to Syracuse for Thursday Night Clash

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team faces its final road test of the fall on Thursday when it heads to Syracuse for a 7 p.m. match against the Orange. The game can be seen on national television on ACC Network, and a list of updated cable providers can be found on www.getaccn.com.

Game 6 | Boston College at Syracuse
Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 | 7:00 p.m.
SU Soccer Stadium | Syracuse, N.Y.

ABOUT SYRACUSE
• Syracuse enters Thursday's contest with a record of 0-5-0.
• Like the Eagles, the Orange faced No. 1 UNC and No. 5 Duke last week ... Syracuse dropped a 2-0 decision to the Tar Heels and a 4-0 game to Duke.
• Jenna Tivnan leads Syracuse with seven shots with four going on frame.
• Meghan Root is back for her junior season after leading the team with eight points on three goals and two assists last season.
• Lysianne Proulx has played all 450 minutes in goal for the Orange ... the senior has faced 130 shots and has a 2.60 goals against average, .783 save percentage and 47 saves.
• Nicky Adams is in her second season as head coach of the Orange.

SERIES HISTORY VS SYRACUSE
• Boston College has a record of 9-4-2 in the all-time series with Syracuse.
• The squads first met in 1996, with the Eagles earning a 2-0 win in Newton.
• The Eagles hold a record of 1-4-0 as the road team in the series while going 8-2-0 as the home team.
• Five of the 15 contests have needed extra time, with two of the games ending in 0-0 ties and BC earning two overtime wins to Syracuse's one.
• Of the 15 meetings in the series, 12 of them have featured at least one shutout ... BC has posted nine clean sheets in the series.

A WIN OVER SYRACUSE WOULD . . .
• Bump Boston College's record in the all-time series against Syracuse to 10-4-2 overall and 2-4-0 as the away team in the series.
• Move the Eagles to 1-5-0 overall.
• Bump head coach Jason Lowe to 1-0-0 all-time against the Orange.

UP NEXT
• BC will close out the eight-game ACC slate with a pair of home games against Virginia (Oct. 29) and Virginia Tech (Nov. 1).

LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College faced top-ranked North Carolina on Sunday, Oct. 18, falling to the Tar Heels, 3-1.
• UNC scored in the 20th minute and then scored twice in the first 10 minutes of the second half to take a 3-0 lead.
• Jenna Bike got BC on the board in the 84th minute to end a 499-minute shutout streak for UNC and goalkeeper Claudia Dickey.
• Allie Augur finished with six saves for the Eagles ... Mackenzie Egan played the final six minutes of the game for BC and made one save.
• Emma Goggins made her collegiate debut, entering as a substitute and playing 12 minutes.

BIKE IS BACK
• After missing all of 2019 due to injury, forward Jenna Bike has returned to the pitch for the Eagles this fall.
• The captain scored her first goal of the season on Oct. 8 at Pitt ... it was her first goal since scoring the game-winning goal against Florida State on Sept. 23, 2019.
• Bike's strike against No. 1 UNC on Oct. 18 ended a 499-minute shutout streak for the Tar Heels.
• The graduate student has two goals on the year and 12 for her career.

BC DEBUTS
• Freshman Emma Goggins played her first collegiate minutes against No. 1 UNC on Oct. 18, appearing as a substitute and playing 12 minutes.
• Sophomore goalkeeper Mackenzie Egan made her collegiate debut on Oct. 8 at Pitt, coming on in the second half and making two saves in 17 minutes of action.
• Junior Nye Day made her collegiate debut on Oct. 8 at Pitt, playing four minutes as a first-half substitute.
• Rookies Zoie Allen, Linda Boama, Rebecca Groseibl, Laura Gouvin and Sonia Walk along with juniors Emily Knous and Megan Crevoiserat all made their Boston College debuts on Thursday, Oct. 1 at Notre Dame.
• Allen, Boama, Groseibl, Gouvin and Walk were making their collegiate debuts while transfers Knous and Crevoiserat were making their first appearance in the Maroon & Gold.

AUGUR'S EIGHT
• In Boston College's first game of the year at Notre Dame on Oct. 1, sophomore goalkeeper Allie Augur made a career-high eight saves.
• The sophomore made six saves in the first half.
• Her previous career-high was seven, set on Sept. 29, 2019 against No. 6 Florida State.
• It marked the most saves in a single game for a BC goalkeeper since Alexis Bryant had 10 saves against Virginia on Oct. 18, 2015.

Eagles Head to Syracuse for Thursday Night Clash

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Players Mentioned

Zoie Allen

Allie Augur

Jenna Bike

Linda Boama

Alexis Bryant

Megan Crevoiserat

Nye Day

Mackenzie Egan

Emma Goggins

Laura Gouvin

Rebecca Groseibl

Emily Knous

Sonia Walk