<div id="subtitle">BC beats Harvard 6-0; BU tops Northeastern to advance to Beanpot title game</div><div><p>Boston College and Boston University will play in the Beanpot finals for the city's college hockey bragging rights.</p><p>BC advanced with a 6-0 victory over Harvard in the early semifinal on Monday night, then defending champion BU held off Northeastern's two-man skating advantage over the final 88 seconds to win 2-1 and reach the final for the 25th time in 27 years.</p><p>Harvard will play Northeastern in the consolation game next Monday, followed by the matchup of Green Line rivals and the last two NCAA champions.</p><p>Colby Cohen and Alex Chiasson scored for BU (10-11-3), which took a 2-1 lead with 5:47 left but gave Northeastern a power play with 1:28 to go. The Huskies pulled their goalie and applied pressure with a 6-on-4 skating advantage, but couldn't reach their second straight Beanpot final.</p><p>Carl Sneep had a goal and two assists, and John Muse stopped 33 shots for BC (14-8-2).</p><p>Harvard (5-12-3) has not won the Beanpot since 1993. Northeastern (11-12-1) has not won since '88.</p><p>BC is back in the tournament final for the sixth time in eight years. One of the surprising exceptions was last year, when Northeastern beat the Eagles 6-1 in the first round, depriving them of what has come to be an almost annual matchup with BU in the title game.</p><p>Since 1998, it is BC's only Beanpot loss to someone other than BU. The Terriers have not lost to anyone other than BC since '94.</p><p>"Last year's game was last year's game," Muse said. "I had plenty of confidence coming in."</p><p>The Beanpot pits the area's four college hockey powers against each other on the first two Mondays in February. Boston University has won 29 — half — of the titles, including last year when the Terriers followed up their Beanpot win with an NCAA title.</p><p>The year before, BC won the Beanpot and the national championship.</p><p>"It gives us a chance to play for a trophy in the middle of the season, which a lot of teams don't have," said BC's Brian Gibbons, a native of nearby Braintree. "I've been coming here since I was little. I'm playing here now. It's a good time. I love it. I'm never going to quit going."</p><p>Gibbons, the MVP of the 2008 tournament, had a goal and an assist for the Eagles, and so did Pat Mullane and Ben Smith. Kyle Richter made 33 saves for Harvard before John Riley took over with 5:58 left and made four saves.</p><p>BC led just 1-0 after one period, but Matt Price scored 18 seconds into the second on a wrister from the right circle that beat Richter on the glove side. Mullane made it 3-0 with 12:17 left in the second.</p><p>"I don't think we gave ourselves a chance to win," Harvard coach Ted Donato said. "We were never able to get into what we were trying to do, and I think their speed and skill had a large role in that."</p><p>BU finally broke through against Northeastern with 11:37 left in the second, when Cohen's shot from the bottom of the left circle got through goalie Chris Rawlings. The Terriers had a chance to add to the lead when Alex Tuckerman drew a 5-minute penalty — along with a game misconduct — for hitting from behind.</p><p>The Huskies were 27 seconds away from killing off that power play when BU's David Warsofsky cross-checked Wade McLeod in the neck and gave the Huskies a man advantage. Just 21 seconds later, Cohen was sent off for hitting from behind, giving Northeastern a 5-on-3.</p><p>Seconds after one shot hit the post as the first penalty expired, Kyle Kraemer beat Kieran Millan on a wrist shot that tied it with 7 seconds left in the 5-on-4.</p><p>That seemed to open the game up, and with 5:47 left Chiasson wrapped up a series of odd-man rushes by heading for the goal on a 2-on-1 and putting the puck between Rawlings' legs; it slowly trickled just over the line to make it 2-1.</p><p>BU picked up another power play with 4:28 left, but did not score and gave the advantage back with 1:28 to play. The Huskies pulled their goalie and controlled the puck for most of the final minute, but were unable to capitalize.</p><img src="http://admatch-syndication.mochila.com/images/ad.gif?aid=68290336&bid=informcom" /></div><div id="copyright"><div>

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