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ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell women's hockey battled No. 4/4 Quinnipiac, but Bobcats took a 4-1 victory away from Lynah Rink on Friday night. The loss dropped the Big Red to 9-11-4 and 5-8-4 in ECAC Hockey play, while first-place Quinnipiac improved to 23-1-4 and 13-1-3 in conference.

Freshman Christian Higham scored the Big Red's lone goal just 1:45 into the game. Senior Anna Zorn dug the puck out behind the net and found Higham at the post. Higham slipped it past it Quinnipiac goaltender Sydney Rossman for her fifth of the season.

The Bobcats were quick to respond, with Danielle Marmer firing one home less than two minutes later to even the score at one.
 
As the first period wound down, sophomore Erin O'Connor got a chance in close on Rossman, with the puck just barely sliding off Rossman's pad to the right of the net.
 
With the score still tied just over five minutes into the second, junior Brianna Veerman nearly put the Big Red in front, when Rossman had to reach behind her to glove down Veerman's shot. The officials reviewed the play, and the no-goal call stood. Much of the second period was a back-and-forth battle. The Bobcats stingy penalty kill unit held Cornell scoreless on the Big Red's lone power play opportunity of the middle frame, but Cornell answered with a strong defensive effort against ECAC Hockey leading scorer Taylar Cianfarano with about four minutes left in the period to keep the score tied.
 
Kristen Tamberg's power play goal, a blast from the top of the right circle, put Quinnipiac ahead for good with 1:16 remaining in the second.
 
Cornell outshot the Bobcats, 14-7, in the third period, but Quinnipiac's top scoring duo of Melissa Samoskevich and Cianfarano each made impressive plays to solidify the Bobcats' win. Samoskevich broke up the right wing to give Quinnipiac a 3-1 lead at 4:48 into the third, before Cianfarano danced her way through the Cornell zone, came across the front of the net, and backhanded a low shot past Big Red netminder Paula Voorheis.
 
Cornell controlled play for much of the latter part of the third, pulling Voorheis to add man-power,and  firing five shots on goal in the last 2:30 of the game, including back-to-back chances from Zorn and freshman Lenka Serdar with traffic in front of the net.
 
Higham led the Big Red with six shots on goal, while Voorhies turned away 23 shots to take over the No. 9 spot for saves in Cornell history.
 
The Big Red returns to Lynah Rink on Saturday afternoon to face another top-10 opponent when No. 9/9 Princeton makes the trip to Ithaca for a 4 p.m. puck drop.