Their spark helps ignite BC's resurgence in women's hockey
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On the attack and in goal, the Boston College women's hockey team has been well served by Deb Spillane of Franklin and Molly Schaus of Natick.
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Boston College roared into Bright Center ranked No. 1 in the country last night, and scored a goal with just over a minute played. But that was it for the Eagles, who ran into a rapidly improving Harvard team that took control of the game and went on to win, 3-1.
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Once again, the Boston College women's basketball team started strong in the second half to blow open a close game, this time using a 15-4 run after intermission to stretch a 5-point halftime edge into an easy 78-49 win over the University of New Hampshire yesterday at Conte Forum.
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The Boston College women's basketball team was hoping to get back on track last night after being upset by Vermont in the Rhode Island Tournament last weekend.
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Perhaps, this time, Boston College will have a little mojo on its side.
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The Harvard women's hockey team set itself up for this. The Crimson invited the best teams in the West to come to Bright Hockey Center for some early season competition, taking on Minnesota and Wisconsin a week ago and Minnesota-Duluth over the weekend.
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In the constellation of women's collegiate athletics, no star has burned brighter the last 10 years than ice hockey. The US team's dramatic gold-medal victory over Canada in the first women's Olympic competition in 1998 splashed the sport across national newspapers, and a game that was played by only a handful of New England colleges in the 1970s has grown ...
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Despite being under the weather yesterday, junior forward Aja Parham provided the spark as the Boston College women's basketball team routed Northeastern, 90-63, at Conte Forum.
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Theo Fleury's return to competitive hockey was a productive one.
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Nothing clarifies the mind quite like having to win or die. So Vermont's Catamounts, whose season ends if they don't win the Hockey East tournament, came to Commonwealth Ave. last night with a fierce focus, shrugging off an early deficit to beat defending champion Boston University, 3-2, in the opener of their best-of-three quarterfinal series before a subdued 3,977 at ...
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Northeastern stormed to the attack in the first period, but Boston University held its ground, gained control of the game, and emerged with a 3-1 victory last night at Matthews Arena.
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The Mystics had to rally late in the season so desperately that the team welcomed a chance to take in the fact that they have a chance at a championship.
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On one bench, that of Boston College, there was a high-scoring offense, plenty of experience, and one of the top power plays in the nation. On the other, that of UMass-Lowell, was a roster filled with youth and inexperience but teeming with determination.
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A new environment worked wonders for the Boston University women's basketball team. The Terriers were still at home yesterday, but they moved from the Case Center to the new Agganis Arena, where they are playing just two games this season. It did the trick.
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You have to hand it to the Louisville women's basketball team; they have a lot of heart.
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The University of Massachusetts displayed resourcefulness in rallying past Maine, 3-2, in the opener of their best-of-three Hockey East quarterfinal series last night.
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Perhaps they will meet again in March when the stakes will be higher, befitting postseason basketball. But for Boston College and the University of Massachusetts, last night's 13th Commonwealth Classic was an intriguing early pit stop between teams that began the season with low expectations (from outside their locker rooms, at least) and have started with surprising surges.