ORONO – Boston College sophomore left winger Tony Voce got a sweet measure of revenge in a penalty-filled Hockey East game against the University of Maine Saturday night.

Voce, victim of a nasty late hit by Maine defenseman Prestin Ryan after he had scored in the second period, scored the equalizer with 2:48 left in regulation to supply the Eagles with a 3-3 overtime tie.

Maine is 8-5-3 overall, 4-2-1 in Hockey East, while BC is 8-6-2 and 4-4-1 in league play.

Referee Jeff Bunyon whistled the two teams for 28 minor penalties and a five-minute major on Ryan for charging as he leveled Voce in the corner as he celebrated giving the Eagles a 2-1 lead with their second shorthanded goal in 14 seconds.

Maine killed off the major as Voce was attended to in the locker room and the Bears took the lead on power-play goals by Colin Shields and Michael Schutte later in the period.

Bears senior goalie Matt Yeats had kept the Bears close in the first two periods and had three high-percentage saves in overtime. BC junior Tim Kelleher made several spectacular third-period saves to keep BC within one until Voce tied it.

The tying goal came about when Bear junior defenseman Cliff Loya was unable to backhand the puck out of the zone and it wound up on the stick of BC’s Ryan Shannon at the top of the left circle.

“I went to the net and Shannon put a little pass to me. I kicked it across and Yeats was going one way, I was going the other. I just put it in on the backhand,” said Voce.

Yeats said, “I had started to get up to try to move over but I should have stayed down on the ice and slid over. He walked around me and put it in.”

Yeats made a pair of rapid-fire saves among his four in the overtime and finished with 35 saves, including 16 Grade-A stops.

“We had an opportunity to get two points but we squandered a point. The guys are frustrated and ticked off, as they should be. We are as coaches. You want to see your players give themselves the best opportunity to win and when you take selfish penalties, you don’t give yourselves that opportunity,” said Maine interim coach Tim Whitehead.

“Our comeback was great. There’s no question we showed a lot of heart and grit,” he said. “I liked the way we competed but we have to find the fine line between competing hard and taking penalties that cost you.”

Maine junior center Robert Liscak said, “We’ve got to learn to stay out of the box.”

BC coach Jerry York used a golf analogy.

“This was similar to a good par. A birdie would be a win but this would be like an up-and-down par from a sand trap,” said York. “We were pleased with the late comeback and the ability to get a point out of the game. Tim Kelleher was outstanding. He made some tremendous saves.”

Liscak opened the scoring for Maine with the only goal of the first period.

A Gray Shaneberger check forced a turnover and Todd Jackson hopped on the loose puck and fed it to the open Liscak at the right post and he roofed it.

Shannon and Voce stunned the Bears with their shorthanders at the 3:43 and 3:57 marks of the second period.

Shannon stickhandled around Yeats before neatly tucking it behind the goalie and Voce scored off a breakaway as he broke in off the right wing and slid the puck between Yeats’ pads.

Shields scored his 16th of the season and extended his goal-scoring streak to six games when he beat a defenseman wide and swept a 30-foot wrist shot between Kelleher’s pads off a Peter Metcalf pass.

Schutte chipped his own rebound over Kelleher as he was being knocked to the ice. Marty Kariya had set him up from behind the net.

Kelleher was peppered in the third period but continually came up with key stops including a great stacked-pad, flashing-glove save on Schutte.

“Coach [York] told me every time you come up here, you’re going to have to weather a storm. They hadn’t had one through the first two periods so I came into the third period prepared for it. I needed to do it for our team because Maine’s second goal was a soft one that I should have had and it almost lost the momentum for our team,” said Kelleher, who finished with 23 saves, including nine Grade-As.

Ryan said he regretted his penalty.

“He [Voce] had punched me and hit me in the neck with his stick earlier in the game. He had also ripped my helmet off Friday night. I was looking to get back at him. But there was no excuse for me taking that penalty,” said Ryan, who was also called for a hitting-after-the-whistle minor on the play and was benched the rest of the game with the exception of one third-period shift.

BLACK BEARS 3, EAGLES 3 (OT)

Boston College (8-6-2) 0 2 1 0 ? 3

Maine (8-5-3) 1 2 0 0 ? 3

First period ? 1. Maine, Liscak 7 (Jackson, Shaneberger), 11:38. Penalties: Maine, Loya, hitting after the whistle, 7:26; BC, Voce, roughing, 7:26; BC, Alberts, hooking, 11:59; Maine, Metcalf, cross checking, 18:54.

Second period ? 2. BC, Shannon 4 (Murphy, Peterson), 3:43 (sh); 3. BC, Voce 13 (Eaves, Forrest), 3:57 (sh); 4. Maine, Shields 16 (Metcalf, Reimann), 12:29 (pp); 5. Maine, Schutte 6 (Shields, Kariya), 16:11 (pp). Penalties: Maine, Ryan, holding, 1:43; BC, Spina, hooking, 2:04; Maine, Ryan, 5-minute major, charging and hitting after the whistle, 3:57; BC, Eaves, hitting after the whistle, 3:57; BC, Leahy, hitting after the whistle, 3:57; Maine, Dimitrakos, hitting after the whistle, 3:57; Maine, Dimitrakos, roughing, 11:55; BC, Forrest, roughing, 11:55; BC, Dziama, unsportsmanlike conduct, 11:55; BC, Peterson, hitting after the whistle, 14:51; Maine, Lawson, hitting after the whistle, 14:51; BC, Peterson, charging, 14:51; Maine, Loya, holding, 17:09; Maine, Liscak, hitting after the whistle, 17:50; BC, Voce, hitting after the whistle, 17:50; Maine, Lynch, holding the stick, 19:03; Maine, Nault, interference, 19:52; BC, Spina, hooking, 19:52

Third period ? 6. BC, Voce 14 (Shannon, Adams), 17:12. Penalties: Maine, Dimitrakos, holding the stick, 2:26; BC, Eaves, hooking, 7:12; BC, Spina, tripping, 11:39; Maine, Loya, holding, 13:44; BC, Murphy, holding, 13:44; BC, Cass, tripping, 14:54.

Overtime ? No scoring. Penalties: none

Shots on goal: BC 11-17-6-4 ? 38; Maine 6-7-12-1?26

Goaltenders: BC, Kelleher (26 shots-23 saves); Maine, Yeats (38-35)

Power-play opportunities: BC 0-6; Maine 2-7

High-percentage scoring chances: BC 5-11-4-3?23; Maine 4-3-8-1?16

Attendance: 5,149