No. 2 Virginia Comes to Newton on Thursday Night

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will host second-ranked Virginia on Thursday night at the Newton Campus Soccer Field. The match, which is set for a 7 p.m. start, will air live on ACCNX, which streams live on the ESPN App.

Game 13 | Boston College vs No. 2 Virginia
Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021 | 7:00 p.m.
Newton Campus Soccer Field | Newton, Mass.

A WIN OVER VIRGINIA WOULD . . .
• Move Boston College to 7-5-1 overall on the year and to 1-4-0 in ACC play.
• Bump the Eagles to 9-10-2 all-time in the series against Virginia with a mark of 5-4-0 at home.

ABOUT VIRGINIA
• Virginia is coming off of a 0-0 tie at North Carolina on Sunday afternoon and enters the match against the Eagles with a mark of 10-1-1 overall and 3-0-1 in ACC play.
• In the first 10 games of the season, the Cavaliers earned three wins against teams ranked in the Top 10.
• Diana Ordonez leads Virginia in scoring with 19 points on nine goals and one assist ... she has four game-winning goals on the year.
• A trio of Cavaliers in Alexa Spaanstra, Lia Godfrey and Haley Hopkins have 10 points each while 11 different players have scored at least one goal for Virginia.
• Laurel Ivory, the NCAA active leader in career shutouts with 38, has played the majority of minutes in goal ... she is 8-1-1 with a 0.62 goals against average, .793 save percentage and six shutouts.

SERIES HISTORY VS VIRGINIA
• Boston College has a record of 8-10-2 in the all-time series with Virginia including a mark of 4-4-0 at home.
• The squads first met on Sept. 18, 1982 with the Eagles topping the Cavaliers 1-0 ... BC went on to go unbeaten in the first six meetings with Virginia at 5-0-1.
• The teams met last year in Newton with a No. 10 Virginia squad holding off the Eagles for a 2-1 win ... Emily Knous scored for BC in the game ... it was the 13th game in the 20-game series that was decided by one goal or less.
• The Cavaliers also came to Newton in 2017, earning a 2-1 win over the Eagles ... Jenna Bike put BC up 1-0 in the 51st minute before UVA scored twice over the final 35 minutes for the win.
• The Eagles have only been shutout once in the series in a 0-0 tie on Nov. 4, 2009.

UP NEXT
• The Eagles will close out the three-game homestand on Sunday, Oct. 10 against North Carolina.
• The game will also be the program's second annual Pink Card Match.

LAST TIME OUT
• BC battled Miami in Newton on Saturday night, ultimately falling 1-0.
• The Eagles and Hurricanes played a scoreless first half and continued to play scoreless soccer through most of the second half. Miami, though, was able to find the back of the net in the 90th minute with Jackie Koerwitz cashing in for the Hurricanes.

IT'S WORTH NOTING
• BC has seven different goal scorers and 17 different point getters through the first 12 games of the season.
• Three Eagles have combined for six four-point games for BC this season, with Ella Richards doing it four times and Linda Boama and Samantha Agresti once each.
• Haley Thomas leads BC field players in minutes played with 1,028 and captain Michela Agresti is right behind with 1,027 minutes logged ... four other players have all put in at least 750 minutes in Sonia Walk (907), Samantha Agresti (788), Éabha O'Mahony (780) and Sarai Costello (764).
• Ella Richards ranks fourth in the ACC in points (20) and points per game (1.67) and sits tied for fourth in goals (8).
• Linda Boama is tied for fifth in the ACC in points (19) and points per game (1.58) while tying for fourth in goals (8) and fifth in goals per game (0.67).
• Wiebke Willebrandt's season and career-high 12 saves at No. 1 Florida State on Sept. 18 marked the second most in a game by an ACC goalkeeper this season.
• Willebrandt earned her first career win and shutout in her first career start with four saves at Iona on Aug. 19 ... the last Eagle goalkeeper to do the same was Erin Seppi against Stony Brook on Aug. 25, 2016.
• BC's 15 goals in the first four games marked the most for the team through the first four games of the year since BC scored 15 goals over the first four games of the 2015 season.

2021 CAPTAINS
• The Eagles are led by Jenna Bike, Mia Karras and Michela Agresti in 2021.
• This is the second consecutive year that Bike and Karras are captaining the Eagles while Agresti is a first-time captain.
• In 2021, Bike started all 14 contests for the Eagles in her return to the pitch from injury ... the graduate student finished second on the team in scoring with 10 points on four goals and two assists.
• Karras, a graduate student, played and started all 14 of BC's contests last season.
• Agresti started all 32 game that BC has played in her first two seasons on the Heights ... the defender has played at least 90 minutes in 31 of 32 games.

ACTIVE SCORING LEADERS
• Jenna Bike is BC's active scoring leader with 44 points on 17 goals and 10 assists.
• Sam Smith is the second-highest active scorer with 37 points on 16 goals and five assists.

SISTER ACT
• The Eagles have two sets of sisters on the roster this season.
• Samantha and Michela Agresti are in their third season together as Eagles.
• Sophomore Emma Goggins is joined this season by her younger sister, Kate Goggins.

No. 2 Virginia Comes to Newton on Thursday Night

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Players Mentioned

Michela Agresti

Samantha Agresti

Jenna Bike

Linda Boama

Sarai Costello

Emma Goggins

Kate Goggins

Mia Karras

Emily Knous

Ella Richards

Sam Smith

Haley Thomas

Sonia Walk

Wiebke Willebrandt