#20 Boston College (7-5, 4-2 PL) vs. Lehigh (6-6, 4-2 PL)
Date and time: Saturday, April 20th | 12:00 p.m.
Venue: Frank Bunco Field | Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
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The No. 20 Boston University men's lacrosse team continues Patriot League play on Saturday when the Terriers travel to Lehigh.The opening game is scheduled for 12:00 p.m.
Saturday's game will be broadcast nationally on CBS Sports Network.
Terrier trivia
- BU enters the final two weeks of the regular season in a six-way tie atop the Patriot League standings with a 4-2 record.
- Friday's loss to Bucknell makes it seem like the Terriers are ready to make the playoffs no matter what, based on a potential tiebreaker scenario, but six tied teams (BU, Lehigh, Navy , Colgate, Loyola, Army) will all be in the PL tournament.
- The Terriers recently suffered a heartbreaking 11-10 loss to Lafayette in their final home game of the regular season.
- graduate student Vince Daltthe program's all-time leader in points (264) and goals (158), paced BU with six points (2g, 4a) against the Leopards.
- classmate Louis Perfette (2g, 2a) Added 4 points as a junior. brenden kelly and second year student jimmy cole They each scored two goals.
- graduate student jake cates After finding the net last Saturday, he needs one more point to reach 100 career points.
- Perfetto ranks fifth in the nation in points per game (5.25) and leads the Patriots in assists per game (2.42) and goals per game (2.83).
- He has scored 60 points in each of the past three seasons.
- Dalt has 58 points, and BU could be the only school since at least 2011 (and maybe even further back) to have the same two players score 60 or more points three years in a row. .
- BU causes 11.25 turnovers per game, ranking third in the NCAA and second in the Patriot League.
- Through 12 games this season, the Terriers are holding opponents to a .786 completion percentage, fourth in the nation and second in the Patriot League.
History of the battle with Lehi
- BU is 4-7 overall against Lehigh, winning each of their last three meetings.
- That includes a 14-11 home win last season on CBS Sports Network.
- The Terriers also defeated the Mountain Hawks in overtime in the 2022 Patriot League semifinals.
- On April 23, 2022, BU defeated Lehigh 9-8 in the Terriers' last visit to Bethlehem. Timmy Ray's The final two goals clinched the first regular season title in program history.
- Four of the last six games have been decided by just one goal, and the last six games have all been decided by three goals or less.
mountain hawk scout
- Lehigh enters Saturday with two straight wins in the finals, both 9-7.
- The Mountain Hawks defeated then-No. 17/18 Colgate went on the road last weekend after defeating Holy Cross at home on April 6th.
- Senior Quinn Armstrong totaled four goals and one assist against Colgate and was named PL Offensive Player of the Week.
- Armstrong is second on the team with 19 points and third behind Lehigh with 26 points.
- Scott Cole, the PL's preseason Offensive Player of the Year, led Lehigh with 29 goals and 35 points, and sophomore Andrew Kelly had a team-high eight assists.
- Kelly was second on the team with 27 points (19g, 8a).
- Junior Sean Dow was named PL's Faceoff Specialist of the Week on Monday after recording 14 of 18 hits, including seven ground balls, against Colgate.
- Dow has 132 of 236 hits (.559 batting average) with the X this season and leads Lehigh with 71 ground balls.
- Sophomore Richard Czech tied Lehigh with 28 turnovers and was second behind Dow with 43 ground balls.
- Senior Nick Pecora is 6-6 this season with a 10.94 goals-against average and .529 save percentage.
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- BU concludes the regular season on Friday, April 26th when the Terriers travel to Colgate.
