HAMILTON, N.Y. – Colgate used a pair of goals 44 seconds apart late in the second period before getting the winner on the power play early in the third to rally past the Cornell women's hockey team, 3-2, in Saturday's Game 2 of a ECAC Hockey Championship quarterfinal series at Class of 1965 Arena.
 
Coupled with Friday's 1-0 setback in overtime, the Big Red lost the best-of-three series and will wrap up its season with a record of 14-14-2.
 
Sophomore forward Gabbie Rud got Cornell on the board a shade over seven minutes into the game. Freshman forward Leah MacSween started the play by intercepting a Colgate pass in the high slot of the Big Red's defensive zone, then finding Kaitlin Jockims with a pass that sent the sophomore forward speeding up the right wing on a two-on-one. From the right circle, Jockims was able to slide a pass by the feet of the last defender to find Rud, who buried the shot before Colgate goaltender Hannah Murphy could slide across to her right.
 
Cornell doubled the lead with 12:15 left in the second period on a power-play goal from senior defenseman Athena Song. The play started when a rebound bounced to Song for a shot from the left faceoff dot. Murphy got her glove to it, but couldn't catch it cleanly – and Jockims was first to fish the puck out from behind the net and ring it back up the wall for Song once again.
 
This time, Song waited for some traffic to develop before stepping into a shot from beyond the top of the circle toward junior forward Gillis Frechette, then the puck caromed off a defender and over Murphy's glove.
 
Penalty trouble for Cornell ultimately greased the wheels for Colgate's resurgence. The Raiders' first power play was killed off – though it included a would-be goal that was overturned on video review after officials deemed Colgate's forward pushed Cornell graduate student goaltender Lindsay Browning into the net along with the puck – but the momentum had shifted in the hosts' favor.
 
Allyson Simpson got the Raiders on the board with shot from the top of the left circle that Browning never saw through traffic, then Katie Chan lifted a shot over Browning's blocker with 2:08 left in the frame to tie the score at 2.
 
The winner then came on the power play for Colgate, with Kalty Kaltounkova cleaning up a rebound from the low slot. It was the last puck to beat Browning, who finished the day with 40 saves. It was her third straight game with at least 40 stops.