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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. --- Cornell women's hockey dropped its first game of the new year, falling to No. 9/9 Harvard, 2-0, Friday night at the Bright-Landry Hockey Center. The loss moves the Big Red to 6-7-2 and 2-4-2 in ECAC Hockey play, while the Crimson improved to 9-4-1 and 6-3-1 in conference.

Harvard's potent power play got the Crimson on the board first, with Grace Zarzecki hammering home her fifth goal of the season on Harvard's first man-up opportunity of the game, giving the Crimson a 1-0 advantage with 2:45 remaining in the opening period.
 
Lexie Laing then doubled Harvard's lead 1:05 into the second frame. Cornell came up empty on two power play chances in the second, but after being outshot 11-3 in the first, the Big Red came back and overpowered Harvard, 12-7 in the middle period.
 
Freshman goaltender Marlene Boissonnault, who came in at the start of the second period in relief of Paula Voorheis, made an impressive series of stops in the early moments of the third period. The play underwent video review, and the officials deemed that the puck did not cross the goal line, keeping it a two-goal game.
 
Cornell looked to rally in the final period, with Boissonnault leaving the net in favor of an extra attacker with over two minutes remaining. Senior Taylor Woods, sophomore Erin O'Connor and senior Cassandra Poudrier fired off shots in the waning moments only to be denied by Harvard goaltender Emerance Maschmeyer, who made 23 saves in the shutout.
 
Voorheis turned away 10 of the 11 shots that came her way in the first, while Boissonnault stopped 16 over the final two periods.
 
The Big Red will face another ECAC Hockey and Ivy League opponent at 4 p.m. on Saturday, when the team takes on Dartmouth in New Hampshire.