Happy Time: Dunbar, Hoops and Women's Lax

All is not lost. We may be the #11 seed going into this weekend’s ACC Tournament, but, hey, stranger things have happened. So get happy.

Happy Birthday JoLonn Dunbar. The emotional leader of last year's defense, Dunbar had an outstanding 4-year career at linebacker with the Eagles. Dunbar was named the 2006 Meineke Car Care Bowl MVP, falling on the fumbled option pitch on the Navy 40 yard line with 1:43 to play to set up the game-winning field goal. JoLonn projects to be a second day pick in the upcoming 2008 NFL Draft. Best of luck to him and the other BC seniors on draft day.

Happy Birthday, and thanks for giving us fans this: our 7th straight bowl win.

Happy Anniversary to the men’s basketball team. On this day 11 years ago, you knocked off Valparaiso 73-66 in a #5 v #12 first round matchup of the 1997 NCAA men’s basketball tournament. The Eagles were led by Danya Abrams (16 points, 12 boards) and Bevan Thomas off the bench in the come-from-behind win. The victory celebration was short-lived, however, as the Jim O’Brien led Eagles failed to advance beyond the first weekend. BC was bounced in the Round of 32 to the #4 seed St. Joseph’s Hawks in overtime, 81-77. The Hawks sunk the Eagles behind 14 three-pointers.

Happy Trails to the women’s lacrosse teams win streak over the Fairfield Stags. Fairfield defeated the Eagles 14-12 yesterday in non-conference play, the first victory over our Eagles in the 8 game history of the series. The loss drops the Eagles to 1-4. The team kicks off ACC play this Saturday against Virginia Tech at Babson College in Wellesley.

Under the Radar: Women's Lacrosse

We here at BC Interruption wanted to shine the spotlight on some of the other D-I varsity sports here at BC that fly under the radar. Even though we focus a majority of the content on this blog towards the revenue-generating sports (men’s basketball and college football), these representatives of the Heights are no more or less Eagles than Coach Jags or Coach Skinner’s squads.

Today we focus on the women’s lacrosse team. The women’s lax team is the only varsity lacrosse team for the school after the men’s team dropped from D-I to club status in 2002.

This year’s lacrosse team dropped its season opener on Sunday to #6 Maryland, 23-10 at Bentley College. They have to play the road warrior this season as they wait for their home field on the Newton Campus to be remodeled. They will play home games at Bentley College, Babson College and Westwood High School. Last year’s squad went 6-11, 1-4 in the talent-rich Atlantic Coast Conference. The other ACC schools that field women’s lacrosse teams are Maryland, UVA, Duke, UNC and Virginia Tech. To give some indication as to how strong the ACC is for women’s lacrosse, four ACC schools finished in the year-end media polls ranked in the top 5.

The Lady Eagles get a rare treat in a west coast trip starting this weekend as they take on St. Mary’s college Sunday, March 2 and Stanford on March 5.

Leave any other interesting factoids or comments about the team in the comment section below.

Best of luck ladies on a successful 2008 season!