Boston College used a power-play goal in the third period from freshman Erin Connolly to take a 2-1 decision over Northeastern in the Women’s Beanpot final Tuesday at Matthews Arena.

It wasn’t as dominant as BC’s 7-0 win over Northeastern last year, but it’s still a championship.

“I thought it was a great hockey game,’’ said BC coach Katie Crowley. “Northeastern is a very good team, they came out and scored first in the third period, but both games we’ve been pretty good at coming from behind.’’

It’s been quite a season for tournament MVP Connolly, who also scored the winning goal against Harvard at Frozen Fenway a month ago.

“It’s been so awesome,’’ said the defenseman from South Boston. “This team, every player is special. I think what makes this team special is that, we’re down 4-1 against UConn [on Friday] and can bounce back from that. Northeastern goes up tonight and the bench gets rallied up to get on a shift and put the puck in the net.’’

Neither team could gain any momentum for the first 40 minutes, and Northeastern (18-10-3) had just 10 shots after two periods.

Following a tremendous breakout chance for the Eagles (21-3-5), sophomore Kasidy Anderson was in alone and evaded a diving defender to give the Huskies a 1-0 lead 1:07 into the third period. It was Anderson’s 10th goal of the season.

Andrea Renner, who had a breakaway chance denied in the second period, connected with Anderson to earn the assist.

Nine minutes into the third, BC senior Kristyn Capizzano sent a knuckleball on net that fluttered past goalie Brittany Bugalski to tie the game at one.

“I just got on the ice and Delaney [Belinskas] found me with a pass to go into the zone, and I just found space to get a shot on net and was fortunate it went in,’’ Capizzano said.

After NU’s Heather Mottau went off for holding at 11:19, Connolly poked the puck home at 12:56 to give the Eagles the lead for good.

It was her Connolly’s seventh goal of the season, and her third point of the Beanpot tournament.

BC has beaten NU in three of the last five Beanpot finals.

Bugalski, who won the tournament’s Bertanga Award as the most outstanding goalie, made 20 saves in the championship game.

Boston College’s Katie Burt made 18 saves to improve to 18-3-4 on the season.

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Harvard coach Katey Stone summed up the consolation game best: “It was more like a lacrosse game than a hockey game.’’

The 6-6 tie between the Crimson (3-17-5) and the Terriers (13-10-6) certainly had that frenetic pace as Harvard came from behind five times to earn the tie.

It was with 1:01 remaining that Kate Hallett was able to tie the game off a rebound from a Briana Mastel shot.

“Our coach always says we have to play a full 60 minutes, and I think we did tonight,’’ said Hallett. “We’ve done that continuously throughout the year.’’

Mary Parker scored her team-leading 19th goal as she found the net to take a 5-4 lead right after Sydney Daniels had tied it. It took just over two minutes for Lexie Laing to deflect a shot past BU’s Erin O’Neil from the top of the crease to tie the game at 5 at 10:40 of the third.

Parker scored her second of the game for a 6-5 lead at 14:00. Victoria Bach skated the puck across the blue line to create space and sent a shot on net, and the grad student buried the rebound.

The scoring started from BU’s Nina Rodgers a little less than halfway through the opening frame, but the Crimson responded with a power-play goal at 12:43, with Haley Mullins scoring her seventh goal.

BU’s Maddie Elia scored in her second straight Beanpot contest five minutes into the second, but Mullins scored her second goal of the night four minutes later.

The Crimson took their first lead of the night 12:46 into the second when a Chelsea Ziadie clearing attempt was played by O’Neil, but went off her stick and into the net.

Bach tied the score at 3 at 17:56 of the second when she found the cage by sneaking in from behind the net and burying the puck short side, just underneath the crossbar, for her 18th of the season.

BU took its third lead five minutes into the third when Rebecca Leslie caught Harvard freshman goalie Beth Larcom too far from her crease. Elia assisted on the play to earn her 100th career point.

After Hallett’s tying goal, the game went to OT, where the Terriers controlled the pace but couldn’t break the tie.

“I loved that the kids continued to compete,’’ said Stone. “I’m very proud of that effort.’’