DULUTH, Minn. -- Larissa Luther, who entered Friday's game with only three goals, scored twice to lead two-time defending champion Minnesota-Duluth to a 5-2 semifinal victory over Dartmouth in the Women's Frozen Four.

Caroline Ouellette added a goal and two assists and Erika Holst and Hanne Sikio also scored for the Bulldogs (30-3-2), who advanced to Sunday's championship game against Harvard with a dominant performance in front of their home crowd.

Patricia Sautter made 28 saves for Minnesota-Duluth, which outshot Dartmouth 51-30.

Dartmouth played here in a mid-January weekend series, losing 5-3 and 6-3 to the Bulldogs without four of its regulars.

The Big Green (26-8) played their way into the Frozen Four with an unlikely 7-2 victory over Harvard last Sunday in the ECAC tournament championship game, but they -- as Minnesota was in its 6-1 loss to the Crimson earlier Friday -- were overmatched in this one.

Dartmouth will play the Gophers Sunday afternoon for third place.

The top-seeded Bulldogs, the first host entrant in the third year of this tournament, dominated the first half of the first period and took 12 shots on goal before the Big Green even got two.

They took a 1-0 lead on Luther's first goal, a rebound that she flipped up over Dartmouth goalie Amy Ferguson's pad as a defender knocked her down. Ferguson missed last weekend's game against Harvard with the flu.

The Big Green played well in spurts, and they carried some late first-period momentum over when Krista Dornfried one-timed a pretty pass from Sarah Clark in the corner to tie the game at 1 at 5:24 of a chippy second period.

The Bulldogs, though, stormed back with three straight goals, overwhelming Ferguson and the Dartmouth defense.

Luther scored on a wrist shot, and Holst made it 3-1 two minutes later.

The back-breaker, however, came courtesy of Ouellette, who led a short-handed 2-on-1 rush, wound up and crushed one high into the far corner of the net.

The shot was so hard, Ferguson didn't even flinch.

Ouellette is second on the team in scoring with 72 points to Patty Kazmaier award finalist Jenny Potter.

Dartmouth, on an unassisted goal by Alana BreMiller with 3:40 remaining in the second, came within 4-2. But the Bulldogs wouldn't let it get any closer. Sikio, hanging out between the circles on a third-period power play, redirected a shot by Krista McArthur that slid between Ferguson's legs.

Minnesota-Duluth defeated St. Lawrence in the 2001 title game in Minneapolis and beat Brown for the 2002 championship.