(Old) Home and Home One Last Time (Week 8 Preview)
The women have a home and home with the Friars and men have a home and home with Northeastern
The women (2-10-0, HEA (9th): 2-5-0) make their first trip south in a home and home series with Providence while the men (5-6-1, HEA (7th): 3-3-0) make their penultimate trip to Matthews Arena before hosting the Huskies.
Women’s
The Terriers host the Friars (November 21st, 6pm) before heading to Providence (November 22nd, 3pm) to close out the weekend.
Providence
(4-9-1, HEA (7th): 2-3-1)
The Terriers enter the weekend after being swept by BC (2-5, 2-3) in a pair of games where they outshot and outplayed the Eagles, but just couldn’t find the back of the net. 4 different Terriers scored in the weekend set: Kaileigh Quigg, Lola Reid, Sydney Healey, and Clara Yuhn.
Providence comes in losers of 3 of their last 4 including getting swept by Princeton (0-3, 1-3), Junior Audrey Knapp the lone goalscorer for the Friars. The Friars are led by senior Reichen Kirchmair with 6 goals and 12 points and Knapp, who leads in assists with 9 and is tied with Kirchmair in points. In net, Hope Walkinski has played every game for the Friars and holds a 3.14 GAA and .906 SV%.
Last season the Scarlet and White averaged 4 goals a game in 3 wins against the Friars with Luisa Welcke (11/2/24) and Sydney Healey (2/8/25) each record multi-goal games.
Records
35-20-6 vs. Providence (4-1-1 under Tara Watchorn)
8-6-1 vs. Providence in November (2-1-0)
Stats
Clara Yuhn leads all Terriers with 4 points against the Friars, her and Luisa Welcke both have 3 goals
Men’s
The men will be tested in their last home (November 21st, 7pm Matthews Arena) and home (November 22nd, 7pm Agganis Arena) against the Northeastern Huskies.
Northeastern
(7-3-0, HEA (T-4th): 3-2-0)
The Terriers enter the weekend off an awful loss against Quinnipiac (2-6), despite Cole Eiserman’s return the team could not keep up the offense. On defense, the team allow Mikhail Yegorov to be peppered by 49 shots on goal, the most since allowing 54 vs. Providence on January 8th, 2021. Yegorov did his best, matching his career high 43 saves. Nick Roukounakis also made his debut after starting the season injured, scoring his first career goal in the effort.
The Huskies of Boston got swept by the Huskies of Storrs (2-4, 3-4) over the weekend. NU’s leading goalscorer freshman, Giacomo Martino recorded a goal on Saturday, a game in which NU had a 3-0 lead through the first 27 minutes of the game. The Huskies are led by junior Dylan Hryckowian and freshman Jacob Mathieu, who each have 11 points. Martino leads with 6 goals. In net, Brown transfer Lawton Zacher, holds a 1.80 GAA and .943 SV% with 3 shutouts including one against Denver and one against Boston College.
The series will be the last home and home to involve Matthews Arena—the Terriers’ original home rink (then Boston Arena), the Terriers will close out the history arena in December.
Records
18-13-4 vs. NU since 2013-14 (4-5-0 under Jay Pandolfo)
9-6-0 vs. NU at Agganis Arena since 2013-14 (2-2-0)
Stats
Neither team has won more than two in a row in the matchup since the 2017-18 season
Cole Hutson is the only current Terrier with a goal against the Huskies
