#4 Bucknell (5-12, 3-3 PL) vs. #1 Boston U. (9-8, 5-1 PL)
When: Thursday, Nov. 3 at 11 a.m.
The place: Jacobs Leisure Advanced – Washington, D.C.
Streaming: ESPN+
Reside Stats: AUEagles.com

Sport Notes

Ticket Data:

• Tickets are on sale now for each Patriot League Event semifinal video games and Saturday’s Championship on-line at AUEagles.com/Tickets.
• Tickets are priced at $8 for adults, and $5 for youth and seniors.
• College students of taking part faculties get in FREE.

About Bucknell

• The Bucknell area hockey workforce is again within the Patriot League match for a fifteenth consecutive season. The Bison have now made the match 25 occasions, which is a Patriot League report.
• Bucknell will play because the No. 4 seed after ending 3-3 in league play. The Bison will tackle top-seeded Boston U. within the semifinal spherical Thursday morning. The 2022 match will likely be hosted by American in Washington, D.C. The Eagles are enjoying because the No. 2 seed, and Lehigh is seeded third.
• Bucknell went 0-3 towards the opposite three groups within the match through the common season, however all three had been determined by a single objective. Bucknell’s recreation towards the Mountain Hawks went to time beyond regulation, and the Bison almost pulled out a win towards the Terriers on Sunday within the regular-season finale.
• In Patriot League play, Bucknell completed the common season third in objectives per recreation (2.5) and sixth in objectives towards per recreation (2.1). The Bison had been tied for first within the league with 2.3 assists per recreation.
• The Patriot League introduced main award winners and All-Patriot League groups on Tuesday, and the Bison had been well-represented as soon as once more. Sophomore Lily Neilson, who led the league in objectives (14) for a second straight season, was named the Patriot League Offensive Participant of the Yr. She’s the primary Bison to earn the award since its creation in 1994 and Bucknell’s first main award winner since Olivia Harris took house Goalkeeper of the Yr in 2019. Senior Kayla Kisthardt joined Neilson on the First Workforce, whereas senior Mackenzie Kile and freshman Kira Leclercq each earned Second Workforce recognition. Bucknell has had a minimum of 4 All-Patriot League honorees in six straight seasons.
• Neilson’s 0.82 objectives per recreation rank twelfth in NCAA Division I. She now has 29 objectives in her profession and is tied for sixth within the Bucknell report e book.
• Kile can also be climbing the report e book and is three assists shy of tying Bucknell’s all-time report of 34. Kile has led the league within the class two years in a row with 12 in every of the final two seasons.
• Kisthardt was one in every of 38 student-athletes named to the 2022 Nationwide Subject Hockey Coaches Affiliation (NFHCA) Division I Senior Workforce final week. She joins Kaelyn Lengthy ’21 and Erin Zielinski ’22 as current Bucknell area hockey gamers to obtain the respect.
• Bucknell is below the path of first-year head coach Kelsey Kolojejchick. Kolojejchick, a former four-time All-American out of the College of North Carolina and a Junior Pan American Video games gold medalist, arrived at Bucknell after spending the previous 4 years as an assistant at Harvard.

Scouting Boston U.

• Boston wrapped up the 2022 regular-season title with a 5-1 league report and a 9-8 mark general. Boston’s solely loss in league play was to Lafayette on Oct. 15.
• The Terriers had been picked fifth within the Patriot League Preseason Ballot after going 4-14 (2-4 PL) final season. It was simply the second time Boston had missed the Patriot League match because it entered the league in 2013.
• Boston confronted two ranked opponents this season. Most just lately, the Terriers fell 3-1 at No. 21 Boston Faculty. Earlier than that, they received 5-2 over No. 23 Maine.
• The Terriers averaged 2.3 objectives per recreation towards league opponents this season, which ranks fourth, and so they tied for the league lead with 1.17 objectives allowed per recreation.
• Boston sophomore Payton Anderson was named the Patriot League Defensive Participant of the Yr on Tuesday, and freshman Martu Coulo was voted the Rookie of the Yr. The Terriers had 5 gamers general make All-League groups.
• Head coach Sally Starr is in her forty second season with the Terriers and has a report of 486-324 with this system. She’s guided her groups to 14 NCAA match appearances and 12 convention titles. She was named the 2022 Patriot League Coach of the Yr on Tuesday.
• Starr served as Bucknell’s head coach through the 1979 and 1980 seasons, posting a 19-14-2 report with the Orange & Blue.

Collection Historical past with the Terriers

• Boston leads the all-time sequence 12-4 for the reason that two groups first met in 2011, however Bucknell has received three of the final 4 matchups.
• The Terriers defeated Bucknell in Lewisburg final Sunday to shut out the common season. The Terriers scored within the thirty eighth minute to interrupt a 1-1 tie, and Bucknell was unable to seek out one other equalizer. Bucknell led 9-6 in photographs and 7-4 in penalty corners.
• The Bison received 2-1 in time beyond regulation in Boston final season.

Bucknell within the Patriot League Event

• Bucknell has certified for the Patriot League match 25 occasions, which leads all different packages. It’s 9-23 all-time in match video games.
• The Bison have superior to the championship recreation eight occasions, and so they received their first league title through the spring 2020-21 season, defeating Boston U. in time beyond regulation in Boston.
• 9 of Bucknell’s 32 Patriot League match video games have gone previous regulation, together with final yr’s loss to Lafayette.
• Bucknell is 1-5 all-time in Patriot League match video games towards Boston U.

Up Subsequent

With a win on Thursday, Bucknell would advance to the Patriot League championship recreation and face both second-seeded American or third-seeded Lehigh on Saturday, Nov. 5.