A near comeback from a 4-1 deficit left the students who made up red and black sea in the upper level of TD Garden on the edge of their seats as the men’s hockey team battled Boston College for the Beanpot title Monday night. But the Huskies and their fans will have to wait until 2014 for another chance to be the best in Boston.
Junior center Jewel Tunstull’s hook shot fell through the net with one second remaining to seal Northeastern’s 59-57 win over the Hofstra University Pride on Feb. 7 in Hempstead, N.Y. The Huskies (13-8, 6-4 CAA) have put together consecutive wins that came down to the final possession.
In a game in which the Huskies were without their co-captain and reigning CAA Player of the Week, they were pushed to overtime and eventually succumbed to the University of Delaware offense.
After 25 years without a Beanpot win, Northeastern will have to wait one more as the Huskies fell to the Boston College Eagles, 6-3, in the Beanpot final Monday night.
The crack of dawn during the dead of Boston’s winter might not sound like the ideal time to lift weights and go over plays, but 5:30 a.m. is when the Northeastern men’s club lacrosse team practices three times a week.
The fourth time was the charm for the Northeastern versus Boston University game this season as the Huskies finally defeated their Hockey East rival 4-1 in the women’s Beanpot semifinal Tuesday night.
The Huskies are heading to their third Beanpot final in five years, as they bemoan the quarter century mark of the last Northeastern win in the historic Boston college hockey tournament.
The Northeastern Huskies women’s basketball team responded to last week’s back-to-back losses in dramatic fashion, edging out the Towson University Tigers with a 59-56 victory on Sunday at Solomon Court.
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – The first place Northeastern Huskies traveled to Long Island shorthanded Wednesday night as the Huskies’ two big men off the bench, junior Dinko Marhavelski and freshman Zach Stahl, stayed back in Boston with lower body injuries.
When Jim Madigan talks about his players’ emotions surrounding the Beanpot Tournament, he doesn’t have to try very hard to put himself in their skates; he’s been there. The Northeastern men’s hockey head coach knows exactly what it feels like to skate onto the Garden ice for the first time, to hear the roaring student sections and understand the magnitude of the first two Mondays of February in Boston.
