BOSTON - In a Senior Day contest featuring eight ties, the Boston University women's lacrosse team pulled away in the finale minutes with a thrilling 15-14 victory over Colgate in its Nickerson Field finale on Saturday. The class of 2021 carried the Terriers (4-5, 3-2 PL), accounting for 18-of-21 points, led by a career-high 10 points from Emily Vervlied. Making the day even more memorable, Ava Barry and Vervlied each hit the 100-career point milestone in the first half. How It Happened Vervlied drove to the cage on a free position attempt before getting a friendly bounce that found its way into the back of the net to get the Terriers within one, 3-2, with 18:46 left in the half. Makenzie Irvine muscled a shot between a pair of Raider defenders to tie it up for the first time, 3-3, at the midway point. Colgate (4-5, 3-4 PL) reclaimed the lead before Ryann Gaffney won the ensuing draw and stormed down the field, scoring just seven seconds later to make it a 4-4 game. Barry scored her 100th career point in style, darting from 20 yards out before ripping a shot between five defenders to give the Terriers their first lead, 5-4, with 11:14 remaining in the first. Following another response from the Raiders, Vervlied mirrored Gaffney with a nine-second effort to swing the scoreboard back in BU's favor, 6-5. Colgate went for three straight scores to take a two-score grip, but the Terriers answered with three goals within a two-minute span, started by Vervlied's 100th career point and capped by a Tobey Tick buzzer-beater to put the score at 9-8 heading into the break. Irvine tomahawked a feed from Vervlied to give the Terriers their first two-goal lead to start the second half. Michelle Seger and Gaffney kept BU toe-to-toe with the Raiders as it maintained a12-11 edge with 20 minutes to go. Colgate tied it up for the eight time until Barry and Lauren Kaye pushed the lead back to two. Seger scorched her second of the day with 1:46 to play as BU held of the Raiders to improve to 3-2 in conference play. Game Notes Vervlied either scored or assisted on six of BU's nine goals in the first half. Vervlied led the team in goals (4), assists (6), points (10), caused turnovers (3), and tied with Jennifer Barry for the lead in ground balls (4). Arielle Hammer made her first appearance in a month and finished with a career-high 10 saves. Megan Hickey came on for the final 16:45 of play to earn the win. Up Next The Terriers will hit the road for the final contest of the regular season Saturday, May 1 at Army West Point. Game time is set for noon.