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HAMILTON, N.Y. — Elizabeth Crowell scored her team-leading sixth goal of the season and the women's soccer team went toe-to-toe with one of the region's top teams on Monday, coming up short to Colgate, 2-1.
 
Entering the game on a 10-game unbeaten streak and poised atop the Patriot League standings, Colgate (9-1-2) got off to a fast start with a goal in the seventh minute. Catherine Williams got free along the end line to the right of goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney and sent a ball toward the top of the 6-yard box. After pinballing around, the ball ended up in the net with Colgate's Caroline Brawner getting credit for the goal.
 
But the Big Red answered in the 13th minute with Crowell's strike. Whitney Farber took a throw-in to the right side in Colgate territory. The ball glanced off the top of a Raiders' defender's head into the box, where Crowell was first to it. She powered a header off the left hand of Colgate goalkeeper Brenna Mason and over the line. It was Farber's second assist of the season — both coming off throw-ins.
 
With the teams tied at the half, the Raiders found the winner after some good fortune in the 54th minute. Emily Crichlow was attempting to serve a ball into the Cornell penalty area, but it caromed off a defender head and looped over the back line and onto the feet of Sarah Coy. The Colgate forward slipped a shot under the outstretched Tierney for the difference-maker.
 
Playing against a team in the top 100 of the Rating Percentage Index for the first time this season, Cornell (6-4) held its ground. The Big Red had more shots on goal than the Raiders, forcing Mason to make six saves on the night.
 
After Colgate took the lead, Tierney made her best stop of the night by diving to thwart an Emily Manoogian shot from 12 yards.
 
In the 59th minute, Kerry Schubert flagged down an Aimee Tavzel free kick from midfielder and turned a shot toward goal from 20 yards, but Mason made the save. Then with 14:10 left, a ball into the Colgate box bounced out to Shanay Fischer, whose shot from 15 yards on a slight angle was into the Mason's mid-section. Cornell's last-ditch effort in the final minute came on Meera Dheer's cross toward Schubert on the far post, but a pair of Colgate defenders cleared the ball.
 
Cornell returns to Ivy League play at 1:30 p.m. Saturday when it travels to defending champion Harvard. The Big Red then wraps up a three-game stretch of road games at 6 p.m. Monday, Oct. 13 at Saint Bonaventure