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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Big Red men's hockey team fought off a two-goal deficit and held the lead heading into the final eight minutes of Saturday night's game at Brown, but the host Bears were able to score twice in a span of 1 minute, 19 seconds to skate away with a 5-4 victory at Meehan Auditorium.
 
Senior captain Keir Ross had a goal and an assist, and junior forward John Esposito had a pair of assists to push his point streak to three straight games for Cornell (1-2, 1-1 ECAC Hockey).
 
Much like Friday's game at Yale, the Big Red started off primarily on its heels. But unlike the game against the Bulldogs, it was the hosts who capitalized for an early two-goal lead. Jeff Ryan deflected in on a Richie Crowley point shot to give the Bears a 1-0 lead 6:16 in, then Bobby Farnham roofed a shot on the power play at the 11:54 mark.
 
The Big Red struck back with 4:59 to play in the opening frame on Miller's second goal of the weekend.  
With freshman forward Brian Ferlin and Esposito helping to keep possession in the Brown zone, sophomore defenseman Kirill Gotovets sent a pass across to the right circle for Miller, whose shot was blocked out toward the point. Ross collected and fired a shot that Miller tipped by Brown goalie Michael Clemente.
 
Ross then scored 1:15 into the second period to tie the game at 2 with his first goal since Feb. 19, 2010. Esposito pushed a puck to Ferlin on the outside of the left circle in the Brown zone. Ferlin wheeled a pass toward the slot that was poked away. Ross crashed from the center point, bouncing a shot off a Brown defender inside the left post.
 
The Big Red then took the lead on spectacular play from Ferlin, who stripped Brown defenseman Dennis Robertson of the puck in the neutral zone to set up a breakaway. With the Bears' other defenseman cutting down the angle, Ferlin ripped a shot over Clemente's catching glove at 12:57. The lead was short-lived, though, as Matt Wahl beat a stick-less Iles after a mad scramble in the Big Red slot to knot the score at 3.
 
Freshman defenseman Joakim Ryan potted his third goal of the young campaign to put the Big Red back on top entering the third period. Ryan and Esposito outhustled the Bears in the neutral zone, causing a turnover to create a short-handed two-on-one. Esposito carried into the zone on the right wing, then dished off to Ryan for the finish inside the left post with 2:08 left before the second intermission.
 
That lead held until the 12:04 mark of the third, when Brown freshman Massimo Lamacchia created a turnover in the neutral zone, then beat Cornell sophomore goalie Andy Iles with a shot over the glove to tie the score at 4. Ryan Jacobson scored the winner two shifts later, burying a chance from the slot after a pass toward the front of the net slid by its original target.
 
Sophomore Dustin Mowrey made a solo rush up the middle to draw a penalty on the next shift, but the Big Red couldn't convert, going 0-for-4 on the man advantage on the night.

Cornell pulled Iles for the final minute, with freshman forward Joel Lowry making a glove save on an empty-net bid with 18 seconds left. He then started a rush up ice and worked a give-and-go with Esposito to set up a shot that flew just wide of the far post. The Big Red regained possession and got shot off from the point in the dying seconds that Miller tipped just wide.
 
The Big Red wraps up its four-game road swing to start the league slate next weekend with a Friday visit to Harvard and a Saturday date at Dartmouth.