DURHAM, N.H. -- A fortuitous bounce gave Tricia Guest the game-winning goal and Minnesota-Duluth the national championship.

Guest scored with 4:56 left as Minnesota-Duluth beat Brown 3-2 Sunday to win its second straight NCAA women's hockey title.

With the Brown defense trying to clear the puck, it bounced off an official's skate and right in front of Guest, charging in from the blue line.

"I took a low, hard shot on net and last I remember the puck was in the back of the net," said Guest, a sophomore who moved from defense to forward this season.

The goal was Guest's 12th of the season and went between the legs of a defenseman and between the pads of goalie Pam Dreyer.

"I don't think Pammie had a bead on it," Brown coach Digit Murphy said.

Bulldogs' goalie Patricia Sautter withstood a furious Brown attack in the final period as the Bears outshot Minnesota-Duluth 16-6, and came away with nothing.

"We had a little chat between the second and third periods," Minnesota-Duluth coach Shannon Miller said of Sautter.

It was about "being like Superman, being the best you can be," Miller said.

For Brown, which has one of the oldest women's hockey programs in the country, it was another a difficult loss. The Bears, 25-8-2, lost in the finals two other times before it was an NCAA event.

Brown also entered the final with the nation's longest winning streak -- 8 -- and was 19-1-1 in its last 21 games after upsetting top-ranked Minnesota, 2-1, in the semifinals.

Kristy Zamora, the tournament's most valuable player, had pulled Brown even with her second goal and 35th of the season with 6 minutes left in the second period.

Zamora, the No. 3 scorer in the country, opened the scoring when she picked up a face off to the left of Sautter and slapped it home with 8:34 left in the first period.

Kristina Petrovskaia, one of eight Europeans on Minnesota-Duluth, scored two minutes after Zamora's first goal, and Erika Holst of Sweden put the Bulldogs in front 8:51 into the second period

The teams tied 2-2 early in the season in a similar physical game that was wide open with long breakout passes that led to quality scoring chances.

Brown outshot the Bulldogs, 35-31, but Sautter consistently turned back the shots.

"I'm always concerned when you don't bury quality shots," Murphy said, called that the difference.

The announced attendance for the two days was 5,153.