Hofstra, BC to Meet for Sunday Neutral Site Game

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The Boston College women's soccer team will face the Hofstra Pride on Sunday, March 14 in a neutral site game at CFC Park in Bethany, Conn. The game will be closed to the public. Due to staffing limitations, there will be no live stream or live updates but results will be provided after the match.

Game 9 | Hofstra vs Boston College
Sunday, March 14, 2021 | 4:00 p.m.
CFC Park | Bethany, Conn.

ABOUT HOFSTRA
• Hofstra enters the match 3-0-0 after putting up a 4-3 win over Stony Brook on Feb. 21, a 5-1 win over Fairleigh Dickinson on Feb. 25 and a 4-0 win over UAlbany on March 3.
• Hofstra has out-scored opponents, 13-4
• Sabrina Ryan leads Hofstra with 11 points on three goals and five assists … Lucy Porter follows with 11 points on four goals and two assists … Lucy Shepherd also has three goals and one assist for Hofstra.

SERIES HISTORY
• Hofstra and Boston College have met five times prior to Sunday, with the Eagles holding a mark of 4-1-0 in the series.
• The lone win for the Pride came the last times the teams met … Hofstra earned a 4-1 win in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Nov. 9, 2018.

LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College lasted played on Nov. 1, 2020 against Virginia Tech ... the Eagles fell, 3-0, at the Newton Campus Soccer Field.
• Allie Augur made four saves for the Eagles in that ACC contest while Sam Smith and Jenna Bike led the team with two shots apiece.
• It was the eighth and final game of BC's fall ACC slate.

FALL REWIND
• The Eagles played an eight-game ACC schedule in the fall of 2020, going 1-7-0 with a mark of 1-3-0 on the road and 0-4-0 in Newton.
• The schedule saw the Eagles open up with three consecutive roads games and it featured three ranked teams.
• In the final road game of the fall, BC earned a 3-1 road win at Syracuse on Oct. 22.
• Jenna Bike led the Eagles with six points on three goals while Emily Knous and Sam Smith had four points each ... Knous scored two goals while Smith had one goal and two assists.
• Michela Agresti and Samantha Agresti played all 725 minutes of the fall season for BC.
• In goal, Allie Augur started all eight games going 1-7-0 with a 0.673 save percentage, 2.31 goals against average and 37 saves.

2020-21 CAPTAINS
• The Eagles are led by the trio of Jenna Bike, Jillian Jennings and Mia Karras in 2020-21.
• All three players are first-year captains.
• Bike, who missed the 2019 season due to injury, was named to the United Soccer Coaches Association DI All-Region team as a junior ... she enters her final season on the Heights having appeared in 57 contests with 56 starts while notching 10 goals and 10 assists.
• Karras played in all 18 contests for the Eagles in 2019, a career-high, while making 16 starts and logging the third-most minutes among field players with 1,434 ... she recorded one goal and two assists and will enter her senior season with two goals and two assists.
• Jennings enters her senior season having appeared in all 58 games that BC has played over the last three years ... she has logged over 3,500 minutes for the Eagles while also recording eight assists and one goal ... in 2019, she started all 18 contests and recorded three assists ... her older sister Kayla Jennings was a two-year captain for BC.

2020-21 EAGLES AT A GLANCE
• BC added 11 new faces to the 2020-21 roster ... the roster stands at 23 student-athletes.
• Megan Crevoiserat and Emily Knous both come to Chestnut Hill with collegiate experience under their belts, arriving from Saint Louis and Arizona, respectively.
• The top five players who played the most minutes in 2019 return in Michela Agresti (1,642), Riley Lochhead (1,600), Allie Augur (1,439), Mia Karras (1,434) and Sam Smith (1,417).
• Smith is the returning leading scorer from 2019, having registered 18 points on eight goals and two assists as a freshman.
• The roster features eight freshmen, seven sophomores, four juniors, three seniors and one graduate student.

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 from Wake Forest in 1998, Lowe also earned his MBA in 2002.

INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
• The Eagles are a diverse group, having four different countries and nine different states represented on the team roster of 23.
• The most represented state for BC is Massachusetts, which is called home by six players.
• Canada has two players represented while Iceland and Germany each have one representative on the roster ... 20 players are from the United States.
• Four Eagles hail from California and two each from New Jersey and Connecticut while New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Colorado and Rhode Island all have one player represented on the roster.

Hofstra, BC to Meet for Sunday Neutral Site Game

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Players Mentioned

Michela Agresti

Samantha Agresti

Allie Augur

Jenna Bike

Megan Crevoiserat

Jillian Jennings

Kayla Jennings

Mia Karras

Emily Knous

Riley Lochhead

Sam Smith