{"id":43025,"date":"2024-10-01T21:11:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/?p=43025"},"modified":"2024-10-02T02:10:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T06:10:54","slug":"womens-hockey-terriers-open-season-with-statement-win-over-merrimack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/2024\/10\/01\/womens-hockey-terriers-open-season-with-statement-win-over-merrimack\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Hockey: Terriers open season with statement win over Merrimack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Featured image by Will Bowers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By Joe Eachus<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Usually, they don\u2019t ask how you score your first, but they might want to for Lola Reid. Two nifty moves: one around her defender, a second around the netminder, and just had to nudge it across the goal line.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The towering freshman\u2019s first career tally wound up being the start of a three-goal second period and a six-goal run for the Terriers (1-0-0, 1-0-0 HEA), not looking back in the season opener against Merrimack (0-2-0, 0-1-0 HEA) at Agganis Arena on Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another look at Lola&#8217;s first goal in the arched Boston! We&#8217;re up 2-1 &#x1f4aa;<\/p>\n<p>watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xrR0Jk3tY\">https:\/\/t.co\/4xrR0Jk3tY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@espn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hockey_east?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hockey_east<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoBU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoBU<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4ErNhtC2Gp\">pic.twitter.com\/4ErNhtC2Gp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BU Women&#8217;s Hockey (@TerrierWHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierWHockey\/status\/1841253241109299286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tamara Giaquinto, donning the \u201cC\u201d for the BU women this season, picked up a career-high three points on the night (two goals and an assist), seeing extensive work on special teams and anchoring the top defensive pairing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe had a little bit of time after our exhibition game [against Concordia] to really dive into some special teams last week, talked about some transition,\u201d coach Tara Watchorn said. \u201cWe had our buckets all preseason focusing on contact, focusing on our first touches on the puck, making them offensive and creating quality scoring chances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seven goals marks the highest scoring output of the Watchorn era, and the highest overall since February 2022 against Harvard in the Beanpot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe had a lot of depth last year, and this year as well. It\u2019s still early, but it\u2019s buying into the identity in every way,\u201d Watchorn added. \u201cWe focus so much on making our offense goalie-proof and creating quality scoring chances.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mari Pietersen was remarkably solid in net, turning aside 16 of 17 shots and opening her year with a victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Mari] playing with that poise and confidence was really cool to see,\u201d Watchorn said. Expected starter Callie Shanahan was out for maintenance, but was still able to impact the game. Pietersen\u2019s mask lost a clip in the third period, and with the equipment staff struggling with a repair, Shanahan loaned her mask to Pietersen for a stretch of the third.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first frame was a tale of power plays and penalty kills, with six combined between the two squads. Managing an extended 5-on-3 opportunity, captain Tamara Giaquinto tallied the first goal of the season. Lilli Welcke held the puck behind the goal line, finding a wide-open Giaquinto at the top of the right circle for a quick shot past Merrimack\u2019s Calli Hogarth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merrimack did not register a shot on goal until over three-quarters of the way through the first, as former Terrier Madison Cardaci was sprung on a near-breakaway that Pietersen turned aside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Warriors finally got on the board at 17:03 of the first, with Solveig Gisler\u2019s shot blockered by Pietersen almost directly into the skate of Gabi Jones, and took an awkward bounce across the goal line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reid\u2019s highlight-tape-worthy score early into the second was the momentum push BU needed, as they went on to score two more in close succession.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lindsay Bochna, after heading down the tunnel a minute in following an elbow to the head, also tallied her first Terrier goal on the power play from a Vote cross-crease feed.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First as a Terrier and her 31st career goal!<\/p>\n<p>watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4xrR0Jk3tY\">https:\/\/t.co\/4xrR0Jk3tY<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@espn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hockey_east?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hockey_east<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GoBU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GoBU<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RgYbbsBgIw\">pic.twitter.com\/RgYbbsBgIw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BU Women&#8217;s Hockey (@TerrierWHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TerrierWHockey\/status\/1841257039055716703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Giaquinto howitzer from the point made it 4-1 BU and chased Hogarth from the pipes. Replacing her was freshman Margaux Favre.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clara Yuhn\u2019s third-period tally, after Vote found her cutting between the hashes, all but sealed the victory for BU, but they weren\u2019t quite done yet. Ani FitzGerald made it a touchdown, and Kaileigh Quigg\u2019s first career goal added the extra point for an emphatic Terrier victory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next up is a major test, a two-game series against the No. 2 Minnesota Golden Gophers (2-0-0, 0-0-0 WCHA) in Minneapolis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe get to feel good about the things we did well, and now it\u2019s time to upgrade again,\u201d Watchorn said. \u201cIt\u2019s where we want to be. We want to play for national championships, and I\u2019m really excited for our group to see what it takes and to play one of the best.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This weekend\u2019s games will both be available to stream on<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigtenplus.com\/en-int\/livestream\/boston-u-at-minnesota\/1803906\"> Big Ten+<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Featured image by Will Bowers By Joe Eachus Usually, they don\u2019t ask how you score your first, but they might want to for Lola Reid. Two nifty moves: one around her defender, a second around the netminder, and just had to nudge it across the goal line.\u00a0 The towering freshman\u2019s first career tally wound up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19139,"featured_media":43024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,1039,1041],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43025"}],"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\/19139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43025"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43034,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43025\/revisions\/43034"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/wtbu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}