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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – No. 20 Cornell women's lacrosse held Harvard scoreless for over 41 minutes and scored eight straight goals in an 11-3 victory at Harvard Stadium on Saturday afternoon. With the win, Cornell improved to 11-3 overall and 5-1 in the Ivy League.
 
Harvard scored the game's first goal, but the Cornell defense shut down the Crimson until the 17:07 mark of the second half, allowing the Big Red to rack up a seven-goal lead. Junior goalkeeper Renee Poullott made 10 saves for the third time this season, and four players finished with multiple goals, as junior Amie Dickson put up four and sophomore Joey Coffy and juniors Kristy Gilbert and Catherine Ellis all tacked on a pair. Senior Emily Tripodi posted four assists.
 
Gilbert scored Cornell's first goal of the game 8:17 in, firing off a pass from senior Olivia Mattyasovszky on a restart from a foul. Then, after more than 11 scoreless minutes, Cornell took the lead with junior Catherine Ellis firing home a cross-field feed from Tripodi. Ellis added her second of the day on a man-up opportunity to give the Big Red a 3-1 advantage. Junior Amie Dickson stretched her goal streak to seven straight games, adding Cornell's third straight goal to give the Big Red a 4-1 lead at the break.
 
Dickson also opened the scoring in the second half, with Ellis sending a ball in from behind the net that bounced off Dickson and past Harvard goalkeeper Kelly Weis. Dickson then completed her hat trick 1:39 later after putting away a pass from Tripodi.
 
At the other end, Cornell Poullott turned away a pair of Harvard free-position chances to extend the Crimson's scoreless stretch.
 
Mattyasovszky added her 24^th goal of the season, capitalizing on a man-up opportunity with 16:19 left on an assist from Tripodi. Coffy pushed Cornell's lead to 8-1 for her ninth straight game with a goal, powering through the attacking zone and finishing past Weis.
 
Harvard snapped its 41-minute goal drought when Alexis Nicolia found the back of the net with 12:53 to go, but Gilbert was quick to push the Big Red's lead back to seven, adding her second of the day.
 
The Crimson added its third off a media timeout, with Audrey Todd burying her shot with 9:28 left.
 
Dickson tacked on another, her fourth of the day, making moves around a handful of defenders to go one-on-one with Weis and get the Big Red into double-digits with 2:43 to go. Coffy added the exclamation point with just over a minute to go on an assist from Mattyasovszky, marking her first career multi-assist outing.
 
Cornell closes the regular season next weekend, hosting Penn for Senior Day at 1 p.m. on Saturday at Schoellkopf Field. The Quakers posted a 9-8 win over Yale this weekend, meaning Penn, Princeton and Cornell will head into the final weekend of the season in a three-way tie for first place in the Ivy League. The top seed will host the conference tournament the following weekend.