Juodikis Scores Two Goals in Season-Opening 4-2 Loss to Boston U.

Friday, October 1

Durham, N.H.

6 PM

University of New Hampshire

0-1-0, 0-1-0

Boston University

1-0-0, 1-0-0

Boston U.

New Hampshire

Photo by: Andrew Yourell

Juodikis Scores Two Goals in Season-Opening 4-2 Loss to Boston U.

10/1/2021 11:42:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

DURHAM, N.H. – Freshman Kira Juodikis (LaSalle, Ontario) scored two goals but the University of New Hampshire women's ice hockey team was defeated 4-2 by Boston University in Friday night's season opener at the Whittemore Center.

UNH goaltender Ava Boutilier (Charolottetown, Prince Edward Island) made 26 saves and allowed three goals. BU scored an empty-net goal with 75 seconds remaining to secure the victory.

BU goalie Callie Shanahan was also credited with 26 saves. Courney Correia (one goal, two assists) and Andi Calderone (two assists) led the Terriers' offense. Mackenna Parker, Julia Nearis and Alex Allan scored BU's other goals.

UP NEXT

UNH and Boston University conclude the home-and-home series Oct. 2 (2 p.m.) at BU's Walter Brown Arena.

FIRST PERIOD

The teams combined to score three goals in the opening six minutes of the game.
Juodikis netted an unassisted goal 22 seconds into the game when she stole a puck at center ice, skated down the slot, faked a shot to glide past a defender and snapped a shot past Shanahan.
Parker went top shelf from the right circle to tie the score, 1-1, at 3:40.
The Wildcats went back in front, 2-1, at 6:08 when sophomore Charli Kettyle (Perth, Ontario) skated the puck through the left circle and slipped a centering pass that Juodikis one-timed into the net.
Senior Emily Rickwood (Brantford, Ontario) stole the puck just outside the offensive zone and entered the zone down the left wing, then sophomore Avery Myers (Fargo, N.D.) chipped the centering pass toward the cage, but Shanahan bodied aside the puck and it trickled wide of the left post.

SECOND PERIOD

BU tied the score, 2-2, at 2:01 when Correia corralled the puck in the slot and wristed a high shot into the cage.
In the fifth minute, senior Lindsey Dumond (Hampton, N.H) kept the puck in the zone at the left point to set up a 2-on-1 break-in. She kept the puck and sent a low shot that Shanahan kicked out with her right leg pad.
In the eighth minute, junior defenseman Rae Breton (Brighton, Ontario) led a rush on the left wing. Her centering pass went to the trailer, sophomore Brianna Brooks (Whitby, Ontario), whose low shot to the 5-hole was stopped and covered by Shanahan.
The Terriers took their first lead of the game, 3-2, with a power-play goal at 12:07. Calderon initiated the scoring sequence from the high slot with a pass to Correia at the left point. She moved the puck down low and Nearis scored from the left doorstep.

THIRD PERIOD

UNH senior defenseman and captain Maddie Truax (Gardner, Mass.) prevented BU from extending the advantage to two goals at 3:50 of the final frame. With Boutilier at the right post, the puck went across the crease but Truax's diving effort and extended stick swept the puck away before the BU player at the left post could tap it into the open net.
Moments prior to that, Boutilier denied Lacey Martin and then Christina Vote off the rebound.
Boutilier was pulled in favor of an extra skater with 1:24 remaining, but BU gained possession shortly thereafter and Allan deposited a shot from mid-ice (near the left dashboards) into the open net to give the Terriers a 4-2 lead at 18:45.

UNH NOTEBOOK

Juodikis scored her two goals on two shots.
Truax recorded a team-high three blocked shots.
Juodikis' goal 22 seconds into the game bested last year's mark of 53 seconds.
It is the quickest season-opening goal dating back through the 2009-10 season.
This is the second consecutive year a freshman scores UNH's first goal of the season. Brooks did that in the 2020-21 season.

GAME NOTEBOOK