ORONO -- The Maine Field Hockey team will host the No. 8 ranked team in the country the Boston College Eagles on Friday at 1PM to open the season, followed by a meeting with Indiana on Monday at 11AM.

An extremely challenging start to the year, but the team embraces that challenge and is grateful to have such high level competition come to them, as it's usually the Black Bears playing visitor.

"On opening weekend we're always trying to get those teams to come out," said Maine head coach Josette Babineau. "Just really thankful those teams agreed to come and obviously they'll play each other on Saturday as well. But two really good opponents for us and just a really good, challenging start to our season."

"We're super excited to host them," said Maine senior midfielder and captain Olivi

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