Eagles Close ACC Regular Season Friday at No. 4 Syracuse

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Boston College travels to face No. 4 Syracuse on Friday night in upstate New York to close the ACC regular season at 7 p.m. on ACCNX.

SETTING THE SCENE
• The Eagles have five points in the Atlantic Division at 1-4-2, two points behind Clemson for fourth place in the division
• The Orange is 5-1-1 atop the Atlantic with 16 points, three clear of Louisville
• If the regular season ended today, BC would be the No. 10 seed and travel to Chapel Hill to face UNC in the ACC First Round next Wednesday

ABOUT THE EAGLES
• Boston College is coming off a 5-1 non-conference win over Endicott on Monday in its home finale at the Newton Soccer Complex
• 10 different players had at least one point for the Eagles
• Stefan Sigurdarson posted his first career hat trick on Monday in his final home game and now leads the ACC in goals (12) and points (25)
• He is third nationally in total goals and fifth in total points
• Amos Shapiro-Thompson is coming off a career-best four-point performance and ranks second on the team this season with seven points
• Brennan Klein has started nine of the team's 14 matches in net and ranks sixth in the ACC with 2.9 saves per game

SERIES HISTORY
• Boston College leads the all-time series with Syracuse 19-12-2 heading into the 34th meeting between the schools
• Last season, the Eagles posted a 1-0 shutout of the Orange on Oct. 15 in Newton behind a winner in the 84th minute from senior Kristofer Konradsson
• BC is riding a four-game unbeaten streak (3-0-1) against SU
• Boston College's last trip to Syracuse was a 2-0 loss in September of 2016
• The Eagles are 6-8-0 in 14 previous visits to Syracuse

MOVE ON UP
• Stefan Sigurdarson extended his career-high with his 10th, 11th and 12th goals of the season on Monday night against Endicott
• The hat trick moved Sigurdarson into a tie with Brian Siracusa for third place all-time on the program's single-season goals list
• His 28 career goals are tied with Charlie Rugg for sixth in program history and he trails Simon Enstrom by just two goals for fifth
• The Icelandic striker ranks seventh all-time in points with 64, eight points behind Enstrom for sixth
• Sigurdarson also ranks seventh in single-season points with 25, one shy of Alejandro Bedoya and Charlie Mundhenk for sixth

UP NEXT
• BC will play on the road next Wednesday in the ACC First Round

Eagles Close ACC Regular Season Friday at No. 4 Syracuse

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Players Mentioned

Brennan Klein

Kristofer Konradsson

Amos Shapiro-Thompson

Stefan Sigurdarson