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Lacrosse in Elite Eight

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With a 21-10 win Sunday over #9 Syracuse, the #14 BC Eagles advanced to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. BC will host #7 Southern California Saturday.

BC had finished its regular season with an 11-5 record, 3-4 in the ACC. Beating Notre Dame 17-14 in the opening round of the conference tournament, the Eagles lost by the same score, 17-14, to North Carolina.

BC traveled to Syracuse this past weekend for the opening rounds of the NCAA tournament. After beating Canisius 21-9 in Friday, they met the Orange. Down 3-2 after the first 10 minutes, BC went on a 9-2 run and finished the first half leading, 12-7.

The Eagles opened the second half with 3 straight goals to lead 15-7. With the score 15-9, BC held Syracuse scoreless for 13 minutes while scoring 5 goals to take the lead up to 20-9. The teams traded single goals in the last 5 minutes for the 20-10 final score.

The BC win was only its 3rd ever over Syracuse and its first in the postseason.

Sam Apuzzo

Sophomore Sam Apuzzo had 5 goals, 2 assists, while senior Kate Weeks added 4 goals, 3 assists. Senior Kayla O’Connor and junior Kenzie Kent added 3 goals each.

Apuzzo brought her BC record season scoring total to 107 points. Her 72 goals are also a season record for the Eagles. She is the first BC player to score 100 points or more in a season.

Four Eagles named to US national team
Two current members of the BC women’s hockey team — juniors Megan Keller and Kali Flanagan, both defensemen — joined two alumnae — Alex Carpenter ’16 and Emily Pfalzer ’15 on the US national women’s hockey team. Team members were announced May 5.

National team members will live and train together in the Tampa, Fla., area beginning in September, prepping for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea. Keller and Flanagan will take a leave of absence for the 2017-18 collegiate season.

Eagles and Irish blast away

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A dozen BC and Notre Dame alumni (and friends) from San Diego met on the battlefield Saturday in friendly “combat” at The Paintball Park, Camp Pendleton.

Prior to the match, without paintball “wounds.” L-R: Eagles Matt Landa JD’13, Kevin Calkins ’00, Nick Hurt ’00, Bill McDonald ’68, Jon Smallwood, Brian Tsu ’00 and Irish Joe White ’09, Quinn Kilpatrick ’13, Josh Shambaugh ’14, Katie Wehner ’13, Roger Sammon ’14, Mychael Medina.

As no one on either team had done this before, we opted for “Paintball Lite.” That means smaller and less powerful guns, smaller and less painful paintballs, no bruises . . . except to pride. Over a couple of hours, the teams competed in several different venues at the park. To be honest, the Golden Domers were generally better at it this time than the Eagles, who are aiming at a rematch.

Here’s a brief (<4 mins) video of some of the action:

 

Hockey teams end seasons

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Men bow out in conference final
With less than a minute remaining and the Eagles down 4-3 to UMass Lowell in Saturday’s Hockey East Tournament final, Ryan Fitzgerald’s shot clanged off the crossbar behind the UMass Lowell goalie. The comeback from a 4-2 deficit ended, as did the Eagles’ season.

Finishing 21-15-4 (13-6-3), the Eagles missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 8 years, falling just outside qualification. It was, however, the 8th consecutive season BC has won 20 games or more, 3rd longest such streak in the nation behind Denver and North Dakota. The Eagles were among 3 teams tying for the this season’s Hockey East regular season title.

BC had beaten BU, for the 1st time this season, 3-2 the previous evening. In the title game, the Eagles outshot UMass Lowell, 41-25.

San Clemente’s Scott Savage and Austin Cangelosi were named to the All-Hockey East 3rd team, while freshman goalie Joe Woll made honorable mention.

Women lose heartbreaker in Frozen Four
With 16.2 seconds remaining in a scoreless tie, #1 Wisconsin scored to defeat the Eagles in Friday’s semifinal of the NCAA Tournament.

Junior goaltender Katie Burt had made 35 saves, one shy of her career best, to that point, but it was the Badgers who advanced to the NCAA championship final. BC had 22 shots on goal, compared to Wisconsin’s 36.

BC entered the game ranked #4 and finished with a 28-6-5 record. Junior defenseman Megan Keller was named 1st team all-America for the second straight year. Keller was the only Hockey East representative on the 12-women all-America team. Earlier she had been named the first defenseman to win the Hockey East Player of the Year award.