BOSTON - The Northeastern women's soccer team will face Boston College in the first round of the NCAA tournament on Friday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. after the Huskies earned an automatic bid into the tournament when they beat James Madison, 3-1, for the CAA championship.
NU's CAA run
The Huskies entered the CAA Championships as the No. 3 seed and opened the first round by hosting and beating No. 6 Delaware in penalty kicks. NU then traveled to the James Madison campus in Harrisonburg, Va., where the Huskies once again needed penalty kicks to get past No. 2 William & Mary in the seminfals. In the championship match,
Hannah O'Donnell,
Lahaina Zoller and
Hanna Terry each recorded goals and
Paige Burnett made seven saves for the CAA crown.  Â
CAA awards
Six Huskies were honored by the CAA during the conference banquet.
Hanna Terry was named to the All-CAA First Team while both
Bianca Calderone and
Hannah O'Donnell earned Second Team honors.
Carina Deandreis and
Mackenzie Dowd were both named to the All-Rookie Team and
Maria Lanyi was named to the All-Academic Team. Additionally, Terry was named the CAA Championships' Most Outstanding Player while Calderone, O'Donnell, and
Paige Burnett were named to the All-Tournament Team.
BC's road to the NCAA tourney
BC closed out its regular season with a pair of thrilling wins. The Eagles topped Maryland on the road, 1-0, in overtime, and then hosted and beat Syracuse, 2-1, in double overtime. The late-season theatrics weren't enough to carry BC through the ACC tournament, however, as the sixth-seeded Eagles lost to North Carolina in the first round, 1-0.
Scouting the Eagles
BC was even-keeled through most of the season, posting a 10-9-1 overall record and a 6-6-1 record in the ACC. The Eagles also finished with a 5-5-1 record on their home field and a 5-4-0 record on the road. McKenzie Meehan and Stephanie McCaffrey lead the team with 31 points apiece. Meehan has notched 15 goals and an assist while McCaffrey has totaled 12 goals and seven assists. Goalkeepers Alex Johnson and Jessica Mickelson have shared time in net almost evenly. Johnson has played 865:57 minutes in goal while Mickelson has totaled 811:07. Johnson, whose 1.25 GAA, .707 save percentage and 6-3-0 record are all superior to Mickelson, got the nod in goal for the Eagles' ACC tournament game and stopped 10 of 11 shots on goal.
A turned Paige
Junior goalkeeper
Paige Burnett has started every game in net for the Huskies since her freshman year, and her third year in goal has yielded career numbers for the Placentia, Calif. native. Burnett's current 1.36 GAA and .777 save percentage are career bests, and her 101 save total is just one shy of her career best.
Allow me to assist you
Morgan Hilby and
Hanna Terry are tied for the team lead with six assists, which ranks for the second-highest single-season total in NU history. Hilby's last assist came on
Lahaina Zoller's game-winning goal in the CAA championship win over James Madison. Terry's last assist came in the CAA semifinals when she found
Haley Sinclair for NU's first goal of the game.
Game-winning assists
Hilby's assist in the CAA championship game marked the third time this season that she has assisted on a game-winner for the Huskies. The last player to tally three game-winning assists in a season was
Hanna Terry in 2011, her first year with NU.
Two for the money
The Huskies are undefeated when they score at least two goals in a game, with a record of 5-0-1. NU has scored at least two goals in each of its last two games.
A fresh goal
Haley Sinclair became the first NU freshman to score a goal in the CAA Championships when she gave the Huskies a 1-0 lead against William & Mary in the semifinals. The last freshman to score in the postseason was
Awnalisa Walker, who is currently a junior. During a 2011 quarterfinal match against George Mason, Walker scored the game-tying goal in the last seconds of regulation. The teams remained tied, 1-1, through two overtime periods as NU advanced on penalty kicks.
A 2012 rematch
The last time NU and BC squared off was on Sept. 5, 2012 when the hosting No. 2 Eagles handed the Huskies their fourth loss through the first five games of the season. The cross-town rivals remained scoreless through the first 75 minutes of regulation when the Eagles broke through on a goal by Kristen Mewis. McKenzie Meehan added an insurance goal seven minutes later as BC walked away with a 2-0 win.
Paige Burnett recorded 12 saves on the game, while
Hanna Terry recorded two of NU's four shots and
Bianca Calderone accounted for one of the Huskies' two shots on goal.
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