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!

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.

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.

Field hockey loses

In what would have to be described as an upset, the Field Hockey team lost to Stanford, 2-1, in their season opener. They are back in action at 5 PM tonight against the University of the Pacific.

The Volleyball team was also swept at the New Jersey tournament. They play next against Northeastern on Thursday here in Chestnut Hill.

Women's Basketball Schedule

2007-08 BOSTON COLLEGE WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

NOVEMBER
1 (Thur.) Athletes in Action (Exhibition) 7:00 p.m.
9 (Fri.) Wright State 1:00 p.m.
14 (Wed.) @ Massachusetts 6:00 p.m.
20 (Tues.) @ Delaware 7:00 p.m.
24 (Sat.) @ Notre Dame TBA
27 (Tues.) New Hampshire 7:00 p.m.
30 (Fri.) @ Northwestern Tournament
vs. Wagner 6:00 p.m.

DECEMBER
1 (Sat.) @ Northwestern Tournament
vs. Northwestern or Central Michigan 2/4 p.m.
5 (Wed.) Holy Cross 7:00 p.m.
8 (Sat.) Rhode Island 2:00 p.m.
11 (Tues.) @ Fairfield 7:30 p.m.
16 (Sun.) LaSalle 2:00 p.m.
22 (Sat.) Maine Noon
28 (Fri.) Colgate 2:00 p.m.
31 (Mon.) Northeastern 2:00 p.m.

JANUARY
3 (Thur.) @ Virginia Tech 5:30 p.m.
6 (Sun.) NC State 1:00 p.m. (RSN)
10 (Thur) Maryland 7:00 p.m.
13 (Sun) Yale 2:00 p.m.
17 (Thur.) @ North Carolina 7:00 p.m.
20 (Sun.) Wake Forest 2:00 p.m.
28 (Mon.) @ Clemson 7:00 p.m. (RSN)

FEBRUARY
3 (Sun.) Miami 2:00 p.m.
7 (Thur.) Duke 7:00 p.m.
10 (Sun.) @ NC State 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)
14 (Thur.) @ Maryland 7:00 p.m.
18 (Mon.) Georgia Tech 7:00 p.m. (RSN)
21 (Thur.) @ Florida State 7:00 p.m.
28 (Thur.) Virginia 7:00 p.m.

MARCH
2 (Sun.) @ Miami TBA
6-9 ACC Championship Greensboro, North Carolina

Tidbits

Yesterday, the field hockey team defeated Colgate 5-1 in exhibition play.

The men's soccer team plays today over on the Newton Field and I was thinking about going, but I might have productive things to do (god forbid).

They are playing against a school I have never heard of, "Southeast Connecticut State."

They get back in action on Friday against Northeastern.

Volleyball also starts on Friday with two preseason tournament games in New Jersey.

G1: UConn 2, BC Women's Soccer 0

8/18/07 - 7:05 PM - Newton Soccer Field - Boston College - Newton, MA
Game Photo Gallery



It was just a scrimmage, but a few factors turned up the interest level over at Newton field tonight: it was the first game of the season, of course, and a chance to get the juices flowing again; it was a matchup of two of the top ten teams in the country and the top two teams in the Northeast; and it was an old-time Big East rivalry, BC vs. UConn.

Although you can't glean much from a scrimmage in August, UConn seemed to back up the notion that they are slightly ahead of BC at this point. The game wasn't woefully unbalanced, but UConn controlled it for the most part en route to a 2-0 win.

Karyn Riviere scored off a corner kick in the 12th minute. In the 48th minute, Meghan Schnur put the game away with a nice 20+ yard, right-footed blast into the top right corner.

On the bright side for BC, Gina DiMartino was by far the best player on the pitch for either team and she tooled on several UConn defenders in the 2nd half. Unfortunately, she could not break through and put one in, although she came close a few times.



#7 for BC caught my eye with lightning-quick speed and excellent touch playing up top in the first half. She was also solid playing on the left wing in the 2nd half. I wondered why I didn't recognize her, and I just got my answer: she's a freshman, Amy Caldwell, from Braintree, MA - one of BC's many talented freshmen.

Hannah Cerrone, another freshman, had an excellent game defensively.

BC has one more scrimmage next Saturday against Maine before the season starts in earnest against CCSU on August 31.

Upcoming Games

The season has begun. Here's August's schedule:

Saturday, August 18	W Soccer	vs. Connecticut	7:00
Sunday, August 19	Field Hockey	vs. Colgate	1:00
Monday, August 20	M Soccer	vs. SE Connecticut	4:00
Friday, August 24	M Soccer	vs. Northeastern	4:00
Friday, August 24	Volleyball	Delaware (NJ Tourn.)	7:00
Saturday, August 25	Volleyball	South Carolina (NJ Tourn.)	11:00
Saturday, August 25	Field Hockey	at Stanford	1:00
Saturday, August 25	W Soccer	vs. Maine	1:00
Saturday, August 25	Volleyball	Binghamton (NJ Tourn.)	5:00
Sunday, August 26	Field Hockey	at Pacific	2:00
Thursday, August 30	Volleyball	Northeastern (BC Tourn.)	2:00
Thursday, August 30	Volleyball	Holy Cross (BC Tourn.)	7:00
Friday, August 31	Volleyball	New Hampshire (BC Tourn.)	11:00
Friday, August 31	W Soccer	vs. Central Connecticut	12:00
Friday, August 31	Field Hockey	vs. Quinnipiac	2:00
Friday, August 31	Volleyball	Sacred Heart (BC Tourn.)	3:00

My plan is to hit up the women's soccer game on the 18th, the men's games on the 20th and 24th, at least one of the volleyball games at the BC tournament, and the field hockey game on the 31st. Let's get started...

Welcome

Welcome to BC Eagle Log. BC already has enough blogs dedicated to people trying to provide insight and opinion on BC sports.... this is not one of those blogs. I don't really have anything insightful to say, anyway. This is a site dedicated to the great journey that is a BC sports season - keeping track of the places I've gone, the games I've seen, the people I've met, and the successes we've enjoyed. I'll try to get pictures from every game I go to, and keep this site more for my own memories than for anyone else.