ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell senior Krysten Mayers registered one goal and one assist to tie the Cornell record for both points (94) and goals (40) in a career, but Mimi Tarrant scored just over five minutes into the overtime to ruin the Big Red's comeback and help No. 13 Harvard escape Marsha Dodson Field with a 4-3 victory.
 
The goal was the second of the day for Tarrant, who was one of six players to combine for the seven goals scored on the day. Mayers was the only player other than Tarrant to have a hand in a second goal, as she was the only player from either team to register an assist.   
 
The visitors held the advantage in shots (22-8), shots on goal (18-4), and penalty corners (7-2) and all four Crimson goals came off rebounds, as Big Red goalie Maddie Henry stopped a career-high 13 saves, to go along with a defensive save from Kirsten Pienaar.  At the other end of the field, Olivia Startup made just one save.
 
Harvard (10-3, 4-0 Ivy) opened the game with two quick goals to take a 2-0 lead less than 10 minutes into the contest but the Big Red was able to weather-the-storm and began to control the play late in the first half.
 
Cornell used some quick-strike opportunistic offense to get back in the game, beginning with Grace Royer's goal in the 24th minute. The tally was set up by Mayers, who slipped the ball to Royer behind the Crimson defense and the rookie pulled Startup off her line, pushed right, and then sent the ball in to the far corner.
 
The teams went in to the intermission with Harvard leading, 2-1, and Tarrant returned the two-goal advantage to the visitors with an acrobatic goal, as her initial shot was saved, but the rebound bounced up and she swatted it out of the air and into the net.
 
Just over eight minutes later, Cornell got back within one when Maddy Conklin was knocked down on a breakaway and the Big Red was awarded a penalty stroke, which was converted by Pienaar, the second stroke goal of her career.
 
Mayers then knotted the game at 3-3 with an incredible individual effort, as she stole the ball from a Harvard defender at the restraining line, raced into the circle, and beat Startup stick-side at the 56:10 mark.
 
Each team had one last chance to win with less than three minutes remaining in regulation, with Sam McILwrick's penalty corner strike hitting a post, before Bente van Vlijmen's penalty corner shot went just wide.
 
Cornell (7-4, 1-3) is back in action tomorrow, Sunday, Oct. 15, as it travels to Colgate for a contest at 1 p.m.