BC Women’s Hockey Impresses In Sweep Of Maine

Each school hockey season includes a month-long vacation break, and each return from break requires a fast return to kind. If the workforce comes again slightly too overstuffed with vacation pastries, it’s a simple alternative to drop some factors.

However hey, couldn’t be us! Boston Faculty Ladies’s Hockey returned to the ice this week for a pair in opposition to the Maine Black Bears in a vital league sequence, and Coach Crowley had her workforce able to go. BC got here away with a pair of 4-1 wins to take all six factors, giving the Eagles some strong separation from the pack for the final dwelling ice spot within the Hockey East playoffs.

The Eagles jumped out to an ideal begin on Thursday, trying robust from the drop of the puck. BC appeared to place extra emphasis on possession and after they had the puck, they weren’t as fast to relinquish it as that they had been within the first half of the season. The nice begin didn’t translate to a objective, sadly… and naturally Maine discovered the again of the online first a couple of minutes into the second interval to take a 1-0 lead.

However as soon as the Eagles scored, the scored a bunch. Cayla Barnes, Abby Newhook, and Kelly Browne all scored very fairly targets inside a couple of minutes in an ideal response to the Maine objective to take a 3-1 lead into the third interval. Browne would add one other early within the third interval to increase the BC result in 4-1, and that was your closing for sport one.

Recreation two was a reasonably related contest. Maine did present up able to play this time, although, and as soon as once more took a 1-0 lead, this time within the first interval. However as soon as once more, the Eagles have been there with a response. Abby Newhook, who fairly merely solely scores massive targets, scored to tie the sport simply 23 seconds later to knot the rating at 1-1 and ship the sport into the primary intermission tied.

The second interval as soon as once more belonged completely to the Eagles. For the second straight night time, BC put dwelling three targets within the center body. Hannah Bilka, Kelly Browne, and Katie Pyne all discovered the again of the online to as soon as once more give the Eagles a 4-1 lead, which might once more final by way of the ultimate whistle as the ultimate rating.

The 2 wins have been large for league positioning. Boston Faculty entered the weekend tied for 4th with the Black Bears, and got here out of it with a six level hole — and the tiebreaker — for that final dwelling ice spot. However maybe the most important story to come back out of the sequence was the resurgence of BC’s three-year captain Kelly Browne. The workforce’s most trusted chief hasn’t performed badly in any respect this season, however the targets hadn’t been coming for her. She confirmed up in a giant method for 3 targets and an help within the two video games in opposition to Maine to get the monkey off her again, and her re-emergence is an effective signal for BC’s postseason possibilities as trophy season approaches.

Subsequent up for the Eagles is one in every of their hardest matchups of the season, a rivalry sport in opposition to #7 Northeastern at Matthews Enviornment on Friday afternoon, earlier than the Eagles head out to the hinterlands west of Route 128 to complete their season sequence in opposition to Holy Cross on Saturday.