Friday, November 20
Durham, N.H.
4:30 PM
Boston College
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Roy’s Four Goals Power BC to Season-Opening Win at UNH
November 20, 2020 | Women's Hockey
Gaby Roy scored four goals and Savannah Norcross had three assists in a season-opening win at UNH.
DURHAM, N.H. – Freshman Gaby Roy scored four goals while Savannah Norcross had three assists as the Boston College women's hockey team claimed a 6-2 season-opening win over New Hampshire on Friday at the Whittemore Center.
Including Roy and Norcross, 10 different Eagles had points on the night, including Kelly Browne and Hadley Hartmetz with two assists each.
After a scoreless first period, the teams combined for four goals in the middle frame, with the Eagles holding the 3-1 lead at the second intermission thanks to two goals from Roy and one from Willow Corson. Roy then sandwiched her third and fourth goals of the game around Jillian Fey's empty-netter.
Maddy McArthur finished with 17 saves for the Eagles, making 12 stops in the middle frame. Ava Boutilier stopped 29 shots for the Wildcats.
The Eagles went 1-for-4 on the power-play while UNH was 0-for-2. BC held the 35-19 lead in shots on goal in the game.
RV/RV Boston College 6, New Hampshire 2
Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 | 4:30 p.m.
Whittemore Center | Durham, N.H.
SCORING
New Hampshire: 0-1-0, 0-1-0 HEA
Boston College: 1-0-0, 1-0-0 HEA
UP NEXT
The Eagles and Wildcats will face off again tomorrow, with puck drop set for 4:30 p.m. at BC's Kelley Rink.
Including Roy and Norcross, 10 different Eagles had points on the night, including Kelly Browne and Hadley Hartmetz with two assists each.
After a scoreless first period, the teams combined for four goals in the middle frame, with the Eagles holding the 3-1 lead at the second intermission thanks to two goals from Roy and one from Willow Corson. Roy then sandwiched her third and fourth goals of the game around Jillian Fey's empty-netter.
Maddy McArthur finished with 17 saves for the Eagles, making 12 stops in the middle frame. Ava Boutilier stopped 29 shots for the Wildcats.
The Eagles went 1-for-4 on the power-play while UNH was 0-for-2. BC held the 35-19 lead in shots on goal in the game.
RV/RV Boston College 6, New Hampshire 2
Friday, Nov. 20, 2020 | 4:30 p.m.
Whittemore Center | Durham, N.H.
SCORING
- 2nd, 13:24 | Roy skated on to Browne's touch pass out of the zone, carried it down the left wing and cut in at the circles and wristed a shot off of the top left corner of the crossbar and in.
- 2nd, 4:18 | Skating in on a two-on-one, Nicole Kelly centered a pass from the right wing that Brianna Brooks redirected into the net.
- 2nd, 16:34 | Caroline Goffredo weaved through the zone and fired a shot from the top of the crease that Boutilier saved but Corson was on the doorstep for a backhand finish on the rebound.
- 2nd, 17:45 | After Hadley Hartmetz took a slap shot off the end board, Roy picked it up below the goal line to the right of the net and turned to bank a shot off of a pad and inside the post.
- 3rd, 9:40 | Skating in on a two-on-one, Jada Christian wristed a shot to the far-left post from the right dot.
- 3rd, 10:19 | Browne carried the puck over the blue line and took her defender to the bottom of the circle before backhanding a pass into the slot for Norcross. Norcross then spun for a no-look pass to Roy at the left post, and the freshman one-touched it past Boutilier's right pad.
- 3rd, 17:15 | Olivia O'Brien broke the puck out of the BC zone and slotted a pass to the middle of the ice for Fey, who skated over the red line and then fired home the puck into the empty net.
- 3rd, 18:53 | Norcross skated the puck down the right wing and found an open Roy over the blue line on the left side for the empty-net finish.
- Boston College is now 15-11-1 all-time in season-opening games and 9-4-1 under head coach Katie Crowley.
- The Eagles are now 26-43-6 all-time against the Wildcats with a mark of 11-21-4 in away games … Crowley is now 23-14-4 in her career against UNH.
- The six goals marked the most for the Eagles in a season-opener since a 10-2 win over Syracuse on Oct. 4, 2014.
- Gaby Roy is the 12th player in program history to score four goals in a game … BC's last four-goal game came from Kelly Browne on Nov. 1, 2019 in a 5-2 win over UNH.
- Roy is the first rookie in NCAA DI women's hockey to net a hat trick in her collegiate debut since Yale's Elle Hartje on Oct. 25, 2019 against LIU.
- Roy is the fourth BC rookie in the last four years to score four goals in a game.
- Of the five, four-goal games in the last two seasons in DI women's hockey, the Eagles now own three of them in Roy, Browne and Hannah Bilka.
- Savannah Norcross' three points on three assists marked a career-high.
- Hadley Hartmetz tied her career-high in assists with two … it was the third multi-point game of her career.
- Browne's two assists now give her 15 career multi-point games.
- This was the first time BC had 10 different point-getters in a game since a 7-5 win over Vermont Jan. 17, 2020.
- Caroline Goffredo and Olivia O'Brien both picked up their first career points with primary assists.
New Hampshire: 0-1-0, 0-1-0 HEA
Boston College: 1-0-0, 1-0-0 HEA
UP NEXT
The Eagles and Wildcats will face off again tomorrow, with puck drop set for 4:30 p.m. at BC's Kelley Rink.
Team Stats
BC
UNH
Shots
35
19
PPG
1
0
SHG
0
0
Penalties
3
3
Penalty Mins
6
6
Faceoffs Won
23
24
Game Leaders
Skaters
+/-
+3
Goals
0
Sh
2
A
3
+/-
+4
Goals
0
Sh
3
A
2
+/-
+3
Goals
0
Sh
1
A
2
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