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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Amy Curlew scored with 2:47 left in the third period to help the women's hockey team force overtime against Yale and earn a valuable ECAC Hockey point with the 2-2 tie on Friday at Ingalls Rink. The win extended Cornell's unbeaten streak against Yale to 17 games and bumped the Big Red to 16-6-4 overall and 12-4-4 in conference play while Yale moved to 10-12-4 and 8-9-2 on the season.

With a determined forecheck in the early minutes of the game, Cornell fired the first five shots on goal – with three alone coming from the all-freshman line of Curlew, Kristin O'Neill and Paige Lewis. It was that line that would open the game's scoring at 4:44 in the first. Freshman Jaime Bourbonnais rushed the puck up the middle of the ice and stick-handled through traffic into the slot before backhanding an attempt at Tera Hofmann. The defender's shot rebounded off the pad and sat in the crease with Lewis finally able to bang home the puck through traffic.

Cornell spent four of the first nine minutes of the second period on the penalty kill but the special teams unit was able to kill off the penalties.

Less than a minute after Hofmann had kept the Bulldogs within one with a pad save on a tipped shot from Lewis, Yale pulled even on the power-play when Laura Anderson jumped on a rebound at the left post.

The Bulldogs had a bid in the final seconds of the period but senior goaltender Paula Voorheis kicked out the right pad andsophomore Micah Hart cleaned up the rebound. Voorheis and the special teams killed off three penalties in the period and was the difference in sending the team into the break tied, as the game was neck-in-neck in shots on goal (21-21) and Cornell held just a one win lead in face-offs (22-21).

With less than seven minutes to play in the final period, Yale broke into the zone on a 3-on-2 rush and Emily Monaghan finished a feed from Mallory Souliotis across the low slot for the 2-1 lead.

Curlew pulled a hard-charging Cornell even when she jumped on puck sent to her from senior Hanna Bunton, beat the defenseman at the right hashmarks and then backhanded the puck past Hofmann to tie the game at 2-2 and force the five minute overtime.

Cornell found itself with over a minute of 5-on-3 with 2:21 on the clock in overtime. Bunton and O'Neill each had chances to put the game away, with Bunton cutting through the slot before having a shot blocked and O'Neill tipping a puck just wide of the right post, but the power-plays expired without a score. Hart almost gave Cornell the win in the final second when her wrist shot from deep rang off the left post but the game ended tied, 2-2.

Voorheis (7-5-3) finished with 25 saves while Hofmann (6-9-4) stopped 36 and Cornell held the final edge in shots on goal, 38-27.

Cornell, which entered the game with a chance to win the outright Ivy League title with a victory over the Bulldogs, will take on Brown tomorrow afternoon in Providence with a win giving the team the title.