Boston College women’s hockey split a two-game nonconference series with No. 12/13 Cornell at Kelley Rink in Chestnut Hill on Oct. 23 and 24, winning 2-0 on Friday night before losing 5-3 on Saturday afternoon. The Eagles are 4-2-0 overall and 2-1-0 in Hockey East, according to BC Athletics, and they host Minnesota State on Monday, Oct. 26, at 11 a.m. on Field Trip Day.
Friday: Sedore’s 39 saves beat No. 12 Cornell
Goaltender Avah Sedore stopped all 39 shots she faced on Oct. 23 for her first shutout of the season, the official recap said. The game was scoreless for 50 minutes. Cornell outshot BC 20-4 in the second period, and Sedore turned away every one of those shots.
Sarah Powers broke the tie on the power play at 10:44 of the third period, with assists from Madelyn Murphy and Jilian Klein. Murphy then scored into an empty net at 18:34 to finish the 2-0 win. BC went 1-for-5 on the power play and killed all four Cornell chances. Cornell goaltender Annelies Bergmann made 28 saves. The win was BC’s third in a row, its second straight shutout and its first win over a ranked opponent this season, The Heights, BC’s student newspaper, reported.
Saturday: Cornell’s 51 shots even the series
Cornell won the rematch 5-3 on Oct. 24 and outshot BC 51-23. Five different Big Red players scored. First-year defenseman Rachel Bishop opened the scoring at 4:58 of the first period, and Karel Prefontaine made it 2-0 at 9:18, according to Cornell Athletics.
BC answered twice in the second period. Powers scored at 11:11, assisted by Ava Thomas and Callie Rice, and Olivia Maffeo scored her first goal of the season on a power play at 16:46. Piper Grober scored between those two goals for Cornell, so BC trailed 3-2 after two periods. Delaney Fleming scored the winner at 3:15 of the third, and Rose Dwyer added a power-play goal 59 seconds later. Maxim Tremblay scored at 10:05, with assists from Klein and Jaime Griswold, to make it 5-3.
Sedore made 46 saves in the loss, including 20 in the second period, and Bergmann stopped 20 of 23. BC pulled Sedore for an extra attacker in the final three minutes but could not score again. Over the two games, Cornell outshot BC 90-53. The official box score lists the attendance at 522.
BC women’s hockey stats and leaders after six games
BC has scored 32 goals in six games, or 5.33 a game, and it averages 40.33 shots, according to its Oct. 25 game notes. The total is boosted by a program-record 17-0 win at Stonehill on Oct. 3. The other results so far are a 3-1 win at Holy Cross on Oct. 9, a 3-2 overtime loss to Providence on Oct. 10 and a 5-0 win over Merrimack on Oct. 14, according to the team schedule.
- Scoring: Thomas and Powers lead the team with 11 points each, on five goals and six assists. Klein has eight points and Tremblay has seven.
- Recognition: Powers was named Hockey East Rookie of the Week after the opening weekend of conference play.
- Special teams: BC has scored on five of 18 power plays (27.8%) and killed 15 of 16 penalties (93.8%).
- Goaltending: The Eagles have a 1.49 team goals-against average and a .948 save percentage. Bailey Callaway has a 0.43 goals-against average in five appearances.
Those figures were compiled before Saturday’s game. BC’s next set of notes will update them.
Next: Minnesota State, then Vermont in Hockey East
Monday’s 11 a.m. game against Minnesota State at Conte Forum streams on ESPN+. The Mavericks are 3-4-1 and have allowed 4.33 goals a game. The teams have met only twice before, both times at Kelley Rink in December 1998, and they split those games, according to BC Athletics.
Hockey East play resumes when Vermont visits on Oct. 30 and 31. BC then plays UConn on Nov. 5 and 6, and the home-and-home series with Boston University is set for Nov. 13 and 14. The Eagles play Penn State and Princeton at the D1 in DC event on Nov. 27 and 28. The women’s Beanpot opens Jan. 12 at Conte Forum against BU. Fans can find more Boston-area college hockey in our hockey roundup for BC, BU, Northeastern and Harvard and on The Boston Report’s college sports hub.
More Boston College sports coverage
Elsewhere at BC, the volleyball, field hockey and soccer teams all played over the same weekend. Our BC women’s sports weekend roundup has those results. We also have a BC women’s basketball season preview, and the men’s hockey team rallied for a tie at No. 4 Denver.
Sources
- BC Athletics: Eagles shut out No. 12/13 Cornell, 2-0 (Oct. 23, 2026)
- BC Athletics: Eagles fall to No. 12/13 Cornell, 5-3 (Oct. 24, 2026)
- Cornell Athletics: Cornell bounces back with 5-3 win at Boston College
- BC Athletics: Women’s hockey hosts Minnesota State (game notes)
Additional sources
- The Heights (BC student newspaper): Eagles shut out No. 12 Cornell Friday, drop 5-3 Saturday
- BC Athletics: Box score, Cornell at Boston College (Oct. 24, 2026)
- BC Athletics: 2026-27 women’s hockey schedule
- NCAA.com: Division I women’s ice hockey
Featured image: Kelley Rink inside Conte Forum at Boston College. Photo by Cipriansjr via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, cropped.
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