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HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – Mike Malave scored 44 seconds into overtime in a wild, back-and-forth affair, giving Hofstra a 10-9 victory over Cornell on Saturday afternoon at Shuart Stadium. Cornell dropped its third straight contest and slipped to 9-3, while the Pride won its sixth consecutive and is also 9-3.

Trailing by three to start the fourth and with just four goals in the game's first 45 minutes, Cornell scored five straight, all coming in the first 4:56 of the period, to seemingly take control of the game after playing the game at Hofstra's pace throughout. The Pride, however, scored twice in the final 3:22, including a Sam Llinares goal with 66 seconds left to send it to the extra session.

An example of the battle throughout came in the overtime face-off. Hofstra freshman xx won the draw, but Cornell's Doug Tesoriero won it right back with a clean check. His pass was off target and gave the ball back to the home team. The Pride wouldn't need a second possession.  Malave capped his hat trick with the game winner just 44 seconds into the extra session.

Joe Paoletta scored a game-best four goals and John Edmonds added three of his own to lead the offense, while Christian Knight made 10 saves between the pipes. Doug Tesoriero won 13-of-21 face-offs on the day.

Cornell led all the statistics except the final score and likely time of possession. The Big Red held a 39-34 edge in shots, a 33-21 advantage in ground balls and a 13-8 possession edge in face-offs.

Cornell began the game with three consecutive goals and held Hofstra scoreless over the first 16:55 of the contest, but the Pride went on a 7-1 run that included what looked to be a backbreaker by Ithaca native Torin Varn with 10 seconds to play in the third to give Hofstra a 7-4 lead. The Pride scored three times on four extra-man opportunities in the second as the Big Red seemingly was down a player nearly the entire quarter.

Varn's goal wasn't a backbreaker. It was momentarily a wakeup call.

The Big Red came out firing in the fourth, scoring five times in five minutes to turn the three-goal deficit into a two-goal edge. Edmonds scored, followed by a pair of Paoletta goals and another by Edmonds. The final Paoletta and Edmonds goals came just six seconds apart. When Dan Lintner netted a goal with 10:04 left, Cornell had all the momentum and a two-goal lead at 9-7.

Then, as had been the story all night, the other team responded.

Cornell, which moved into a first place tie atop the Ivy League standings with a Harvard loss earlier in the day, will look for its 10^th win of the season when it plays host to Brown on Saturday, April 19 at 12 p.m. at Schoellkopf Field.