Junior forward Chloe Keating ended her five-game scoreless streak with a second half goal, but Harvard found itself overwhelmed by No. 9 Boston College last night in Newton, Mass. The Terriers found the back of the cage nine times over the course of the contest, marking the second straight game in which the Crimson has struggled against a ranked opponent.

Nines were wild last night.

For the second game in a row, Harvard field hockey surrendered nine goals as ninth-ranked Boston College (13-4, 1-3 ACC) defeated the Crimson (5-9, 2-3 Ivy) 9-1 last night.

“It definitely wasn’t our best game,” sophomore forward Allie Kimmel said. “I think we just couldn’t match BC’s strength and speed.”

Eagles senior captain Chelsey Feole added to her career season, netting five goals in just 29 minutes of play to push her team-leading total to 23 goals on the season.

While the Harvard defense stood strong for the game’s opening minutes, keeping Boston College from scoring off its first four shot attempts, the floodgates opened in the 10th minute.

Feole got things started for the Eagles, recovering her own shot attempt after it was deflected by freshman goalie Cynthia Tassopoulos and driving it home.

Things got bad quickly for the Crimson.

Boston College managed to put the ball past the Harvard goalie under a minute later, this time courtesy of Courtney Tavener, who took the pass on the left side of the field and sent it past Tassopoulos. Feole’s second goal came just over a minute later, as the Eagles scored three times in just over two minutes of play.

“I think we could have definitely played with them,” Kimmel said. “We just couldn’t get our momentum back after their first goal.”

And the goals just kept coming for Boston College.

After a fourteen-minute lull where the Eagles failed to convert on their next four shot attempts, Feole completed her hat trick, this time off a pass from Tavener.

Once again, Feole’s teammates followed the captain’s lead, scoring two goals in the game’s next eight minutes, giving Boston College the commanding 6-0 lead heading into the break.

Feole would not rest in the second half, contributing to her team’s final three scores. The five-foot forward from Windham, New Hampshire sent a pass to Janna Anctil in the 45th minute that the junior forward sent home for her 10th goal of the season. Anctil’s score gave Feole her 11th assist on the year.

Feole rounded out an impressive stat sheet with her fourth and fifth goals of the game, which came in the 47th and 54th minutes. The senior standout’s final tally gave her team nine goals on the night, its highest output of the season, as Boston College cruised throughout the contest.

The loss to another cross-town opponent marked a slight improvement for a Harvard team that failed to come up with only a single shot attempt in its 9-0 shutout loss to No.4 Princeton this past weekend.