#7/8 Quinnipiac Up Next For the Eagles

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – The #15/14 Boston College women's hockey team will return to the ice on Friday night, traveling to Quinnipiac for a non-conference game at Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena.

Puck drop is set for 6 p.m., with the contest streaming live on ESPN+.

GAME 2 | #14/15 Boston College at #7/8 Quinnipiac
Friday, Sept. 30, 2022 | 6:00 P.M.
Frank Perrotti, Jr. Arena | Hamden, Conn. | ESPN+

WHAT'S ON TAP
• Boston College and Quinnipiac will meet for a single game on Friday night.
• Friday marks the 27th all-time meeting between these two teams and the fifth time in the last six meetings that both teams are nationally ranked.
• BC sits at 1-0-0 on the year while Quinnipiac is 2-0-0.
• The Eagles were picked to finish third in the Hockey East Preseason Coaches Poll while the Bobcats were picked fourth in the ECAC Hockey Preseason Coaches Poll.

ABOUT QUINNIPIAC
• The Bobcats opened up the 2022-23 season last weekend with a pair of games at Maine ... Quinnipiac topped Maine 3-2 in the opener on Friday night and followed it up with a 3-0 win on Saturday afternoon.
• Olivia Mobley (1-3-4) racked up four points on the weekend to lead the team while Lexie Adzija (2-1-3) had a three-point series.
• Catie Boudiette and Logan Angers both started a game for the Bobcats ... Boudiette had a 26-save shutout while Angers made 18 saves in an overtime win.
• Mobley led Quinnipiac in scoring a season ago with 34 points on 17 goals and 17 assists.
• The Bobcats went 26-10-3 overall last year, advancing to the NCAA Regional round where it fell to eventual national champion Ohio State, 4-3, in double overtime.
• Cassandra Turner is in her eighth season as head coach of the Bobcats and her 14th overall season with the program.

A WIN ON FRIDAY WOULD . . .
• Bump the Eagles to 19-4-4 in the all-time series with Quinnipiac with a mark of 8-2-3 under head coach Katie Crowley.
• Move Boston College's all-time program record to 500-370-81.
• Give the Eagles an all-time record of 115-119-30 against current ECAC Hockey schools.

SERIES NOTES
• Friday's game marks the 27th meetings all time between the two programs ... BC and Quinnipiac played at least once every year from 2001 through 2014-15 before taking a break in the series in 2015-16 ... the teams then played again in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
• The teams last met on Oct. 17, 2017, with the Eagles skating to a 4-2 win at Kelley Rink ... one player who played in that game, Cayla Barnes, is on the Boston College roster.
• BC holds an 18-4-4 mark in the all-time series ... at Kelley Rink, BC is 11-0-2 against the Bobcats, while Quinnipiac is 4-6-2 at home against BC ... the teams met once on neutral ice with BC taking that win.
• The teams played three times each year from 2001-02 through 2003-04, with two meetings in 2004-05, 2005-06 and 2011-12.
• BC has the edge in the last five meetings, going 3-1-1.
• Games have gone to overtime six times with BC holding a 1-1-4 record in those contests.
• Six of the last 10 meetings have been decided by a single goal or finished tied ... overall 11 of the 26 meetings have been decided by a goal or less.
• Including Friday's game, five out of the last six meetings come with both teams nationally ranked.

LAST TIME OUT
• Boston College opened up the 2022-23 season on Sept. 24 with a 4-1 win over Franklin Pierce.
• Hannah Bilka (1-1—2) and Cayla Barnes (1-1—2) had multi-point games while Kate Ham scored her first career goal with the game-winner in the third period.
• BC was not whistled for a penalty during the game.
• Abigail Levy made 17 saves for the win and eclipsed 3,000 career saves in the contest.
• Bilka, who fired a game-high seven shots on goal, was named the Hockey East Player of the Week on Monday for her efforts ... the captain reached 50 career assists in the game, the 30th player in program history to do so.
• For Barnes, it was her first game in a BC uniform in 557 days.

ICE CHIPS...
• Boston College returns 85 percent (202/237) of its point production from the 2021-22 season.
• Kelly Browne is the first three-year captain in the history of Boston College hockey, men's or women's.
• In her first three seasons (2018-21), Cayla Barnes was the only player in Hockey East and one of two players nationally to block 200-plus shots and record 50-plus points.
• Keri Clougherty led all Hockey East rookies with 56 blocked shots in the 2021-22 season.
• Boston College women's hockey is the only Hockey East program, men's or women's, to finish in the top four of the standings every single season since 2010-11.
• With the start of the 2022-23 season, Boston College will embark on the 29th season of varsity play.
• The Eagles went 6-0-0 last season when allowing less than 30 shots on goal.
• Hannah Bilka has recorded at least one shot on goal in all 88 career games and has fired multiple shots on goal in 79 of them ... she joins Alex Carpenter '16 and Haley Skarupa '16 as the only players in program history to fire at least one shot on goal in every game played in their first three seasons.

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Players Mentioned

Cayla Barnes

Hannah Bilka

Kelly Browne

Keri Clougherty

Kate Ham

Abigail Levy