Get well soon, Charlie Davies

Get well soon, Charlie Davies

Saturday, September 15, 2007

G5: Maryland 2, BC Field Hockey 0

No pics. I was covering this one for The Heights.

Maryland is a good team. A really, really good team.

G4: BC Football 37, NC State 17

This post is a week late, I know, but it's never too late to look back at our thumping of TOBy.

Let's go Eagles --- BEAT GT TONIGHT!



Friday, September 7, 2007

G3: Quinnipiac 2, BC Men's Soccer 1

from my story in The Heights:

Two days after an emotional season-opening victory at Boston University, the Boston College men's soccer team suffered a letdown on Monday, losing 2-1 to the Quinnipiac Bobcats at the Newton Campus soccer field. It was a maddening afternoon for BC, who lost the game despite out shooting the Bobcats 31-6.

Quinnipiac stunned BC with two counter-attacking goals in the second half to erase a 1-0 halftime deficit. Junior forward for the Bobcats, Graciano Brito, had a goal and an assist to spark the rally. After the game, an emotional Brito expressed how much the win meant to the Bobcats.

"My freshman year I came here and we lost 2-0, my sophomore year we lost to them 4-1 at home … and this year, we finally beat them," Brito said.

BC coach Ed Kelly was frustrated by his team's poor finishing. "We should have scored five goals in the first 10 minutes," Kelly said. "We were killing them. We missed goal after goal after goal, and eventually, it's going to happen - you control the ball for the entire game, then you have two miscommunications in the back and you lose."

The game started off well enough for the Eagles, who out shot Quinnipiac 16-2 in the first half. BC broke through with a goal at 42:26 when Paul Gerstenberger hit a low free kick along the ground from 25 yards out that snaked around the Quinnipiac wall and snuck into the bottom right corner of the net, just out of the reach of a diving Frederick Hall.

Three minutes into the second half, freshman Karl Reddick hit a long smash from right of the goal that appeared destined for the back of the net, but Hall dove to knock it away, giving BC a corner kick. The Bobcats quickly cleared the ensuing corner to keep it a one-goal game.

That play would later be pivotal; 11 minutes afterward, at 58:36 of the game, Quinnipiac defender Ryan Smith lobbed a high, bouncing ball from behind the halfway line that was gathered by Brito in between two BC defenders at the top of the box. Goalkeeper Chris Brown came off his line to challenge Brito, who chipped the ball over Brown's head and into the back of the net to tie the game.

In the 67th minute, BC's Aidan Buick smashed a left-footed shot that was knocked out of bounds for a corner kick. Quinnipiac took control off of the corner and launched a swift counter-attack up the right wing. Nick Pelicaen delivered a ball to Brito, who was able to get clear of BC's defenders and run in on goal uncontested. He ripped a low, hard shot that was parried to the right by Brown, but Pelicaen was there to knock home the rebound and give Quinnipiac the 2-1 lead.

Monday, September 3, 2007

G2: BC Football 38, Wake 28


A lot will be written and said about the differences between Tom "We're up aren't we?" O'Brien and Jags, but no example stood out to me as much as the drive BC made late in the 2nd half. After fumbling and letting Wake run it back for a TD with about 2 minutes to go in the half to take a 21-14 lead, my TOB instincts told me that BC would come out, run three times, and try to kill the clock.

But instead, BC came out with 4 wideouts, went into the no huddle, and drove it down the field with surgical precision, leading to a touchdown that tied the game at 21. That was undoubtedly the key drive of the game.




The Trophy Case: BC's honors during my years at school

  • Men's Basketball
  • 2006 - Commonwealth Classic Winner
  • 2008 - Commonwealth Classic Winner
  • Women's Basketball
  • 2008 - Caribbean Challenge Winners
  • 2008 - Blue Sky Classic Winners
  • Sailing:
  • 2008 - ICSA Women's National Champions
  • 2008 - ICSA Co-Ed National Champions
  • Football:
  • 2006 - Meineke Car Care Bowl Winner
  • 2007 - Ireland Trophy
  • 2007 - ACC Atlantic Division Champions
  • 2007 - Champs Sports Bowl Winner
  • 2008 - Ireland Trophy
  • 2008 - ACC Atlantic Division Champions
  • Men's Soccer:
  • 2007 - ACC Regular Season Champions
  • 2007 - ACC Tournament Champions
  • Women's Soccer:
  • 2006 - Sweet Sixteen
  • 2008 - Sweet Sixteen
  • Women's Hockey:
  • 2007 - Beanpot Champions
  • 2007 - Frozen Four
  • 2009 - Beanpot Champions
  • Men's Hockey:
  • 2007 - Hockey East Tournament Champions
  • 2007 - Frozen Four
  • 2007 - Mariucci Classic Champions
  • 2008 - Beanpot Champions
  • 2008 - Hockey East Tournament Champions
  • 2008 - Frozen Four
  • 2008 - National Champions

Games I Attended in '07-'08

  • Overall: 51-30-11 + 12 non BC + spring football = 105 games
  • Home: 40-25-6 + spring game
  • Away: 4-5-5
  • Neutral: 7-0
  • Non-BC NCAA Games: 12
  • Men's Hockey: 13-6-5
  • Women's BBall: 8-2
  • Football: 6-1 + spring game
  • Baseball: 5-1
  • Softball: 4-0
  • Men's BBall: 6-4
  • Women's Hockey: 8-11-5
  • Men's Soccer: 1-2-1
  • Field Hockey: 0-1
  • Women's Soccer: 0-1

Stadiums/Fields Seen 07-08

  • Total: 20
  • Conte Forum [BC] - (49)
  • Alumni Stadium [BC] - (8)
  • TD Banknorth Garden - (7)
  • Shea Field, Baseball [BC] - (6)
  • Newton Soccer Field [BC] - (6)
  • Walter Brown Arena [BU] - (4)
  • Shea Field, Softball [BC] - (4)
  • Matthews Arena [NU] - (3)
  • DCU Center [Worcester] - (3)
  • Schneider Arena [PC] - (2)
  • Ridder Arena [Minnesota] - (2)
  • UConn Hockey Arena [Conn] - (2)
  • Agganis Arena [BU] - (2)
  • Tsongas Arena [UML] - (1)
  • Whittemore Center [UNH] - (1)
  • Mariucci Arena [Minnesota] - (1)
  • Bright Arena [Harvard] - (1)
  • Harvard Stadium [Harvard] - (1)
  • Newton Field Hockey [BC] - (1)
  • Houston Field House [RPI] - (1)

Games I attended in 06-07

  • OVERALL 67-27-3 = 97 games
  • Football 6-0
  • M Hockey 17-6-1
  • M Basketball 14-4
  • W Hockey 13-6-2
  • W Basketball 6-3
  • Softball 3-1
  • W Soccer 3-1
  • M Soccer 3-1
  • Baseball 2-4
  • W Lax 0-1

Best Moments

  • Men's Hockey, 4/12/08 - National Champs.
  • Football, 10/26/07 - BC rallies with two touchdowns in the last 2:11 to win at Virginia Tech and maintain their #2 ranking. Students spill out of the dorms and have an impromptu celebration all over campus. What a night. WOW.
  • Men's Hockey, 3/30/08 - BC scores 3 goals in 1:58 to come from an 0-2 deficit to a 3-2 lead late in the 2nd against Miami in the NCAA regional final.
  • Men's Hockey, 3/30/08 - Joe Whitney's ridiculous diving goal sends BC to the Frozen Four, beating Miami 4-3 in OT.
  • Men's Hockey, 3/21/08 - Benn Ferriero's 3OT goal caps a comeback against UNH in the Hockey East semifinals at the Garden.
  • Men's Hockey, 2/11/08 - Nick Petrecki's OT goal wins the Beanpot for BC!
  • Football, 9/1/07 - BC scores a touchdown to tie the game at 21 right before half time against Wake. BC wins 38-28
  • Men's Hockey, 11/30/07 - BU goalie Karson Gillespie gets sent to the box by Benedetto for a swan dive... piss-your-pants laughter follows
  • Men's Hockey, 3/15/08 - Nate Gerbe's amazing penalty shot goal makes it 4-0 BC over PC in Game 2 of the HE QFs
  • Men's Hockey, 2/4/08 - Gerbe slays BU in overtime
  • Men's Hockey, 3/22/08 - BC cruises to another Hockey East title, beating UVM 4-0
  • Men's Hockey, 3/29/08 - BC gets past the Gophers 5-2 in the NCAA tournament.
  • Men's Hockey, 3/15/08 - BC sweeps the Friars with a pair of 5-1 wins in the HE QFs to advance to the TD Banknorth Garden.
  • Women's Hockey, 2/29/08 - Eagles top PC 4-2 in the season's penultimate game to keep their playoff hopes alive. Stack with the ENG to ice it with 4 seconds left.
  • Women's Hockey, 1/4/07 - BC kills off a 5-on-3, Lindsay Wright aka CANADA scores a sick goal, and BC upsets #4 SLU 5-2
  • Women's Basketball, 1/6/07 - BC stuns NC State with a thrilling 1 point come-from-behind victory
  • Men's Soccer, 11/9/07 - BC clinches ACC reg. season title with a win at home against VT.
  • Women's Hockey, 01/12/08 - MN native Allie Thunstrom's goal with 1:30 to go gives BC a tie @ #4 Minnesota
  • Men's Hockey, 3/14/08 - BC blitzes Providence early and often en route to 5-1 win in Game 1 of HE QFs at BC
  • Men's Basketball, 12/23/07 - Tyrese Rice knocks down a floater with less than 5 seconds to play to give BC the 57-55 win over Northeastern.
  • Men's Hockey, 1/19/08 - Carl Sneep's goal in the 3rd ties BU 2-2; pandemonium in the student section
  • Football, 11/24/07 - BC finally snaps the long losing streak against the U.
  • Women's Hockey, 2/10/08 - BC's Stack scores in the 2nd to tie UNH 1-1. We lost, but that was a great moment.
  • Women's Basketball, 12/31/07 - Picco nails back to back three pointers as BC wins a thriller against NU
  • Baseball, 5/13/08 - BC rallies from big early deficit to beat UConn.
  • Softball, 3/26/08 - Fence Girl crashes into the fence, Thunstrom scores winning run, BC downs HC 4-3
  • Women's Hockey, 11/29/07 - A clutch goal with under a minute remaining by Stack gives BC a much needed point @ UConn
  • Women's Hockey, 3/15/08 - UNH tops St. Lawrence 3-2 in OT to give Hockey East a representative in the Frozen Four.
  • Men's Hockey, 11/30/07 - BC explodes for a 3-0 1st period lead en route to a 6-2 win over BU
  • Football, 10/7/07 - BC scores 31 points in the 2nd quarter against Bowling Green and rolls to 55-24 win - up to #4 in the country!

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