Boston University also reached the finals by edging Northeastern 5-4 in a triple-overtime thriller in the first game of the Garden doubleheader.
Sophomore Fred Bassi scored the winning goal, his second of the evening. The Terrier victory was made possible by a series of great glove and kick saves by goalle Jack Ferreria in over-time play.
The opening game had been tied for 40 minutes, when B.U.'s Bassi took Tom Ross' pass in midair at the blue-line, stickhandled the puck through the North, eastern defense, and sild it under goalle Gary Thornton. The score came at 0:52 of the third ten-minute, sudden-death over-time sesion.
As usual, Northeastern's outstanding skater was Don Turcotte, who excelled not only at his defensive post, but also scored two goals.
Northeastern's goalle Thornton also played a brilliant game, kicking away 47 shots to prolong the game to three over-time sessions.
Next Monday Harvard will meet North-eastern in the consolation game, and must win in order to preserve its record of never having lost both Beanpot games.
B.U. and B.C. will then stage a rematch of last year's championship game when the Eagles won 6.5.