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Chris Collins nets his seventh multiple-goal game of the season

Feb. 6, 2006

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BOSTON - Chris Collins scored two goals, Peter Harrold registered one goal and two assists and Stephen Gionta tallied one goal and one assist to lead third-ranked Boston College to a 5-2 victory over Northeastern in the first round of the Beanpot before 17,565 fans in TD Banknorth Garden.

Boston College will make its seventh appearance in the Beanpot Championship under head coach Jerry York and will play for its third Beanpot title in the last five years. The Eagles will face off against Boston University in the championship on Monday, Feb. 13 at 8 p.m. BU defeated Harvard, 5-3, to advance.

The Eagles (18-6-2, 15-4-1 Hockey East) scored three times in the first period of play. Freshman Brock Bradford got BC on the scoreboard at 8:36. Harrold extended BC's lead to two goals at 11:48 and Collins gave the Eagles a three-goal edge - forcing a change in the Northeastern net - on a power-play tally with just more than two minutes to play in the opening frame.

Northeastern (1-19-6, 1-13-6 HE), which was penalized eight times resulting in four BC power plays in the first period, narrowed the deficit to two goals - 3-1 - with its first of the game - a power-play goal from Bryan Esner - at 13:45 of period two. The Huskies out shot the Eagles, 10-8 in the middle period.

Gionta extended the Eagles' lead back to three goals and extended his point-scoring streak to a season-long seven games, redirecting freshman Brett Motherwell's (two assists) shot past Adam Geragosian (20 saves) for his fifth goal of year at 2:36 of the third.

Following NU freshman Dennis McCauley's goal at the 4:48 mark in the final frame, Collins scored a short-handed, breakaway goal at 9:51, marking his national-best fifth short-handed goal of the season.

BC out shot Northeastern, 35-30 in the game.

BC sophomore goalie Cory Schneider tallied 28 saves and improves to 16-6-1 this season.

Northeastern goalie Doug Jewer, who collected 10 saves in the first 17:50 of the game, falls to 0-8-1.