BOSTON — In a rematch of the 2024 Girls’s Beanpot ultimate, the battle of the Boston collegiate canines was taken by the Northeastern Huskies.
The Huskies skated to a 4-0 win over the Boston College Terriers within the twentieth championship sport.
The primary interval was extraordinarily even with each groups having nice alternatives. The interval additionally featured large defensive moments and a few unimaginable saves from each goalies.
However solely Northeastern was in a position to get on the board. With 11:29 left within the first, senior defenseman Lily Yovetich took a shot simply contained in the blue line that took a wild bounce off BU’s Ani Fitzgerald’s stick the place it snuck beneath the crossbar to offer the Huskies a 1-0 benefit.
The second interval could possibly be finest described as bodily. Each groups have been extraordinarily bodily and there have been over half a dozen large collisions and neither crew gave an inch.
The interval was scoreless till junior proper wing and Andover native Lily Shannon slammed house a rebound on the doorstep after a shot from Jaden Bogden with 2:21 to go within the second. This could not be all from Bogden as simply 30 seconds later she discovered herself on the opposite aspect of the equation as she put in a tip off a rebound to attain her fifth purpose on the 12 months, with Jules Constantinople getting the help.
The third interval was not almost as eventful. BU appeared to have some probabilities however Northeastern goalie Lisa Jönsson was dynamite in web throughout a 30-save shutout. The Huskies added an empty netter with Skyler Irving sealing the deal.
Jönsson was named the match MVP and likewise the Bertagna Award winner as the perfect goalie. She posted 65 saves on 67 photographs throughout the 2 video games for the champions. That is the ninth time a participant gained each awards in match historical past.
She mentioned after the sport, “Getting a shutout is a big confidence boost for the rest of the way. It was just so amazing to play this game, this being my first Beanpot, I loved every second of it. Even in front of the big crowd, our captain said to try and play like it’s a crowd of one and I think we did a good job of that.”
This marks Northeastern’s third straight Beanpot and sixth total beneath head coach Dave Flint. This strikes BU to 14-8-1 and NU to 15-8-1, with each groups persevering with a stretch of powerful Hockey East convention video games.
