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HAMILTON – Junior Eliana Brown continued to impress early in the season with another tally, but 18th-ranked Boston University scored twice in a 10-minute span to escape campus with a 2-1 win on Saturday.

Colgate (1-5) played a good all around game, not allowing the Terriers to gain any momentum throughout the contest. Boston University had a 19-8 shot advantage, but the teams were about even on penalty corners with the visitors owning an 8-5 margin.

Brown scored her seventh goal of the season, which leads the Patriot League and it was her fourth goal in the last two matchups after a hat trick against St. Francis last Saturday. Once again, the goal came in the first few moments of the game with Brown staking Colgate to an early 1-0 lead with a blast from the left side of the circle that snuck inside the far post.

"Since it was a Patriot League matchup, we asked our players to step up and think about the little things that were working for us," head coach Cathy Foto said. "We had a lot of good things that we accomplished and we were able to score early and put pressure on our opponent again."

It was the fourth-straight game that Colgate had scored in the first eight minutes and staked itself to a 1-0 lead.

The Terriers (5-2) evened the score late in the first half with Hester van der Laan lifted a shot over everyone and into the top of the net. Boston University was awarded a penalty corner and the stopped shifted the ball to Anne Fruitema, who made the extra pass to van der Laan and she shoveled it into the top of the cage to tie the match with 3:40 remaining in the opening half.

After Amanda DiDomizio made two of her seven stops on the day, Boston University earned it first lead of the game with Sofi Laurito scoring from the top of the circle early in the second half. She dribbled outside the circle from right to left and took a backhanded shot from just inside the line. Laurito couldn't have asked for better contact as she rifled a shot low to the near post and past a stretched out DiDomizio for the 2-1 lead.

The Terriers were able to hang on, but Colgate missed a couple of grand opportunities to tie the game. Halle Biggar was able to tip a shot on a penalty corner with 20 minutes to go in the contest. The ball got by goalie Valentina Cerda, but Katie Bernatchez was there to clean it up at the far post to keep the lead for the Terriers.  Rookie Katie Sullivan had another great chance with five minutes left as she tipped a shot just over the crossbar on another penalty corner.

DiDomizio had to make a couple of stops down the stretch and Sullivan's try was the last effort by Colgate to tie the game. The Colgate goalie finished with six saves in the second half to keep her team in it, while Cerda made two saves in the win.

"We had a good game plan and the players executed it well," Foto added. "We were not flustered by the stick work of Boston University and the level they play at."

The Raiders are back on Tyler's Field tomorrow for a 12 p.m. start against Brown.