Wednesday night featured an early-season showdown between No. 6 Boston College and No. 5 Boston University at Kelley Rink. The Eagles were unable to take advantage of six BU penalties and numerous high-percentage scoring chances, as they fell to the Terriers, 4-1.
"I thought we played really well tonight," head coach Katie King Crowley said. "It's just a matter of [BU] got some breaks and scored some goals, and we weren't able to do it. Our focus needs to be more on taking care of those pucks that are right there, the rebounds that [the goalie] gives up, trying to take care of them."
BU got the scoring going with 7:56 remaining in the first period, when Jenn Wakefield took advantage of a two-on-one breakaway. Deciding to take the shot herself, Wakefield wristed the puck past Corinne Boyles for the 1-0 lead.
Later in the period, the Terriers added to their lead with just over a minute left. After an Eagle was tripped up and fell to the ice, Kathryn Miller took an uncontested slap shot from the point that found the back of the net, making it 2-0 BU.
To begin the second period, the Eagles went on the power play, and 1:19 into it, went on a five-on-three. Crowley took a timeout to set up a game plan for the five-on-three, but BC failed to get a shot off in the 41-second two-man advantage.
Back at even strength, BC finally found the back of the net eight minutes into the second period. Taylor Wasylk controlled the puck in the corner, made a move to get the defender off her back, and backhanded a beautiful pass to Mary Restuccia. Restuccia lifted the puck up and over the shoulder of BU's goalie for her second goal of the season, cutting the deficit in half at 2-1.
With one minute and 56 seconds remaining in the second period, the Eagles went on another five-on-three power play, this time for 34 seconds. Despite putting on much better pressure and creating better scoring chances, BC had nothing to show for it on the scoreboard once again.
Just under eight minutes into the third period, Louise Warren padded BU's lead, using a breakaway to make it 3-1 and put an end to a long string of scoring chances by the Eagles.
Then, on their first power play of the game, the Terriers capitalized again, when Isabel Menard received a perfect pass right in front of the net, placing the puck top-shelf to give her team the 4-1 lead.
Though Crowley said it was frustrating to not score in 12 minutes on the power play, "it wasn't for a lack of chances.
"It wasn't because we couldn't get set up or anything like that. We had the chances and just couldn't put them home. You're going to run into games like that and hopefully our kids learn from it and we'll come back stronger on Saturday."
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