{"id":17683,"date":"2019-01-31T08:33:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T13:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportswtbu.com\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2020-01-09T17:30:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T22:30:31","slug":"womens-hockey-no-8-terriers-look-to-continue-unbeaten-streak-against-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2019\/01\/31\/womens-hockey-no-8-terriers-look-to-continue-unbeaten-streak-against-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Hockey: No. 8 Terriers look to continue unbeaten streak against Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16488\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/womnes1.jpg\" alt=\"WOMnes1\" width=\"3702\" height=\"2468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/womnes1.jpg 3702w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/womnes1-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/womnes1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/womnes1-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3702px) 100vw, 3702px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By: Patrick Donnelly<\/p>\n<p>The No. 8 Boston University Terriers (14-6-6, 11-5-5 WHEA) will travel to Gutterson Fieldhouse to take on the struggling University of Vermont Catamounts (7-16-4, 5-13-2 WHEA) on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Terriers remain unbeaten over their last seven games after tying the Merrimack College Warriors in the second game of a home-and-home matchup last weekend, ending BU&#8217;s six-game winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>After earning the ranking of No. 10 in the nation last week, the Terrier&#8217;s continued strong play over the weekend was enough to push them up to eighth in the nation as they and No. 7 Boston College leapfrogged No. 9 Ohio State and No. 10 Colgate.<\/p>\n<p>Red-shirt junior Sammy Davis and junior Deziray De Sousa both come into the matchup riding three-game point streaks (3G, 3A and 1G, 3A, respectively), while junior Abby Cook holds a four-game scoring streak (1G, 3A).<\/p>\n<p>The most impressive streak belongs to sophomore Jesse Compher, who has been on fire of late with a seven-game point streak (2G, 9A). Compher ranks second in the nation in assists-per-game with 1.15 and fourth in points-per-game with 1.65.<\/p>\n<p>While Brian Durocher&#8217;s Terriers have been high-flying, Jim Plumer&#8217;s Catamounts have been in a downward spiral, having dropped four-straight, all to Hockey East Opponents. In total, Vermont has lost six of eight games since Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>After some scoring woes early in the season, BU&#8217;s offense has exploded recently, scoring a whopping total of 32 goals over the course of their seven-game unbeaten streak.<\/p>\n<p>They keys for Boston will be being able to continue the scoring that has taken the team&#8217;s game to an entirely new level lately, coupled with the same effort and intensity they&#8217;ve shown over the last seven games.<\/p>\n<p>The action kicks off on Friday night at 7:00PM as the Terriers look to come out with a strong effort to continue the unbeaten streak and take them into next Tuesday&#8217;s matchup against Northeastern in the 41st Women&#8217;s Beanpot on a positive note.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16487\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/women2.jpg\" alt=\"Women2\" width=\"3138\" height=\"2092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/women2.jpg 3138w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/women2-636x424.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/women2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/files\/2018\/11\/women2-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3138px) 100vw, 3138px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By: Patrick Donnelly The No. 8 Boston University Terriers (14-6-6, 11-5-5 WHEA) will travel to Gutterson Fieldhouse to take on the struggling University of Vermont Catamounts (7-16-4, 5-13-2 WHEA) on Friday night. The Terriers remain unbeaten over their last seven games after tying the Merrimack College Warriors in the second game of a home-and-home matchup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17192,"featured_media":16488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1041],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21262,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions\/21262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}