By Jared Sugerman, News Staff

So much for consolation.
With third place on the line in the Women’s Beanpot Tournament, Boston University (15-10-6, 12-6 Hockey East) and Northeastern (11-16-3, 6-10-1) faced off at Matthews Arena Tuesday evening.
The Terriers and Huskies were tied for all but 1:45 of their 60-minute tilt, but a late goal from Boston University captain Sarah Russell propelled the Terriers to a 2-1 victory, and left Northeastern without a’ Women’s Beanpot Tournament victory for the fourth consecutive season.
With little more than one minute remaining in the third period, Boston University parlayed a Northeastern turnover at the Terriers’ blue line into a 2-on-1 rush the other way.
Though their initial foray was thwarted by the Huskies’ freshman goaltender Florence Schelling, no one could deny Russell in her effort to gather the rebound and slip the puck underneath Schelling’s pads.
Northeastern head coach Dave Flint proceeded to use his timeout, during which he later said he told his team, ‘Hey, we’ve got plenty of time left. Let’s get that puck deep. Let’s establish, let’s get the goalie out and swarm that puck. Get everything to the net. Get bodies to the net and just see what happens.’
The Huskies did as they were told, but their diligence resulted in opportunities, not goals. Junior defender and co-captain Katy Applin moved the puck toward the slot, where Northeastern’s leading scorer, sophomore forward Kristi Kehoe, was waiting in front of Terrier goaltender Melissa Haber. Kehoe redirected the pass toward the net, but Haber dropped to her knees and turned the puck away.
‘I thought the effort was there,’ Flint said. ‘I can live with mistakes. I’ve told them since Day One, I can’t live with poor effort.’
It was, in part, Kehoe’s first-period effort that led to the Huskies’ only goal of the game.’ When it appeared that Haber had frozen the puck, Kehoe chose not to wait for the whistle and another opportunity. Instead, she jostled for control, knocking the puck’ loose and forcing it into the cage at 13:02.
Northeastern led for 48 seconds, then forward Jenelle Kohanchuk’s goal at 14:41 tied the game at one, and that is how the score would remain until the game’s 60th minute.
Schelling did her part to give the Huskies a chance by turning aside a series of breakaways, rebounds’ and shots from the slot that seemed destined to cross the goal line.
Her second-period denial of forward Holly Lorms involved a shot from just above the crease, an apparently open net and, stunningly, Schelling’s glove, extending upward from her prone body to snare the puck as it headed toward the twine.
It was perhaps the most spectacular of Schelling’s 30 saves, and the one that Flint called ‘something to see.’
Schelling and the rest of her teammates will’ play at Matthews Arena Saturday and Sunday, when they host Vermont (5-24-1, 3-14) for a two-game series.
If the Huskies cannot clinch a Hockey East playoff berth by winning one game against the’ Catamounts, they will be attempt to do so by downing the Terriers during a home-and-home series, Feb. 21 and’ 22, which will close out the regular season.
While Northeastern fell in the 5 p.m consolation game, No. 7 Boston College was able to emerge with a 1-0 victory over Harvard in the 8 p.m. championship game.
The Eagles had beaten the Huskies 3-1 in the opening game of the Beanpot, while the Crimson rolled over the Terriers 8-0 to advance to the finals.
Eagles forward Kelli Stack, who scored in both games, was named tournament MVP.
BC’s Molly Schaus was honored with the Bertagna Award for the best goaltender of the tournament. She stopped 64-of-65 shots in the two games.