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March 15, 2009

BU ends Maine's season

BOSTON - Six different players scored as Boston University eliminated Maine from the Hockey East playoffs with a 6-2 win Sunday at Agganis Arena.

BU took a 1-0 lead on Zach Cohen's goal less than a minute into the game, and Spencer Abbott tied the game at 14:19 of the first after an apparent goal by Jeff Dimmen was waved off. But the Terriers scored the next five goals to win the best-of-three series.

BU (29-6-4) is the top seed in the tournament and the No. 1 team in the country, and advances to the Hockey East semifinals, which begin Friday at TDBanknorth Garden in Boston. Maine finishes the season 13-22-4.

Scott Darling made 22 saves for Maine, while Kieran Millan made 24 saves for BU. Gustav Nyquist also scored for the Black Bears.

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I am confident that next year we will surpass this season's win total, so long as Whitehead remains in charge. I am going to go out on a limb and predict.... 14 wins!

Posted by Keep Whitehead
March 18, 2009 08:37 PM

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that next year we will win 14 games! Onward and upward!

Posted by KeepWhitehead
March 18, 2009 08:46 PM

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Rachel is in her fifth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A former college soccer and softball player, she covered sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.

Rachel takes over coverage of the University of Maine hockey team and was introduced to Maine hockey as a seventh-grader in Annapolis, Maryland, after reading a 1988 Sports Illustrated story about Shawn Walsh's impact on the program. Nearly 20 years later, she still has the four-page article in her possession.

She and her husband, Tommy (who also works for MaineToday Media, Inc.) are avid sports fans who root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Kansas Jayhawks. After a year of marriage, their next step in life is to find a bigger house!

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