ALBANY, N.Y. -- Two down, one to go for Boston College.

Thwarted in three consecutive trips to college hockey's final four, the Eagles beat Michigan 4-2 Thursday night in the semifinals of the Frozen Four. Boston College will play North Dakota for the championship Saturday night.

	Boston College's Jeff Giuliano, center, is knocked down by Michigan's Jay Vancik (15) as Michigan goalie Josh Blackburn gets help covering the goal.

Boston College (32-8-2) got two goals apiece from freshmen Chuck Kobasew and Ben Eaves to exact a measure of revenge against Michigan (27-13-5), which defeated the Eagles in overtime in the championship game three years ago.

Boston College, which lost in overtime to Maine in the semifinals in '99, beat the Black Bears in the quarterfinals this year. A victory over the Fighting Sioux (29-7-9), which beat Boston College in the title game a year ago, would make the Eagles' journey complete.

"It's pretty nice to meet the three teams that have knocked us out in the last three years," forward Brian Gionta said. "We're going to be pretty pumped up. It's time for us to step ahead and go over that ledge."

No team has won two consecutive titles since Boston University accomplished the feat in 1971-72. North Dakota got its chance by beating top-ranked Michigan State 2-0 earlier Thursday.

Boston College, the highest-scoring team in the nation at four goals a game, took control from the opening faceoff. Michigan goalie Josh Blackburn made two great saves in the first minute on Eaves and Tony Voce from point-blank range.

The Wolverines settled down after their shaky start, but the Eagles broke through midway through the first period.

Voce brought the puck up the left side into the Michigan zone and fed a cross-ice pass to Kobasew in the slot, and he beat Blackburn between the pads at 10:06 for his 25th goal of the season. Eaves made it 2-0 with a power-play goal at 14:29.

Kobasew's second goal of the game, on a power play at 11:38 of the second, gave Boston College a 3-0 lead.

"We knew we would be in for a battle, but I think just the pressure of being in the final four got to us a little," said Michigan's Josh Langfeld, whose overtime goal three years ago beat Boston College in the title game. "We came out and played hard, but for whatever reason we had a bad start. Our team was prepared, but they just came out hard. We just wanted to weather the storm. We didn't respond early, but we did later on."

Later on took just 46 seconds. John Shouneyia flipped a back-hander high into the net over Boston College goalie Scott Clemmensen's shoulder at 12:24, and the Wolverines trailed 3-1.

"Our team had a lot of confidence and a lot of resilience. We were outplayed, outchanced," Michigan coach Red Berenson said.

Still, Michigan, which has won nine titles, fought back.

When Mike Cammalleri scored his 29th goal for Michigan from in front of the net off a feed from Dave Huntzicker at 5:12 of the third, the Eagles were reeling. But the Wolverines were unable to break through again, and Eaves secured the victory with an empty-net goal with 20 seconds left.

"I guess it's kind of nice to get redemption for the freshman year," said Clemmensen, who made 31 saves to set a tournament career record of 322.