ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the second consecutive season, the Cornell-Harvard women's lacrosse game ended with the road team celebrating a golden goal. This time, it was at the Big Red's expense, but only after a bad bounce canceled out a late Cornell goal and sent the Crimson home with a 14-13, double overtime triumph on Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell fell to 6-6 (2-2 Ivy), while the Crimson improved to 6-5 (2-2 Ivy).

Harvard's Ilana Kofman's attempted pass in from of the crease was deflected by a Cornell defender and found its way past Ellie Horner, who kept the Big Red in the game in the second half with 10 saves, including seven huge stops in the fourth quarter (all on the final eight shots she saw) to allow Cornell to send the game into the sudden victory sessions. She ended with 12 saves on the afternoon along with five ground balls and a caused turnover to spur the defense.

Amanda Cramer had three goals and an assist, Katie Castiello posted a hat trick to sit on 99 career points, Maggie Pons had a three-point day (two goals, one assist) and Shannon Brazier was credited with three assists to lead a Big Red offense that reached double figures in the scoring column for the 12th consecutive game. Josie Vogel scored twice, as did Caitlin Slaminko, whose free position score with 1:20 left in regulation allowed Cornell to send the game into overtime.

Harvard trailed much of the first three quarters before a 3-0 spurt that covered just 1:48 of game time turned a 12-9 Big Red lead into a 12-12 game with 13:51 remaining. The Crimson eventually took the lead on a Hannah Shiels goal with just under nine minutes remaining, a lead that held up until Slaminko's tying goal.

Neither team was able to score in the first overtime with both teams getting a possession, but the second overtime ended just 21 seconds in on the fluky redirection.



Harvard got on the board just 50 seconds in as part of a back-and-forth, high-scoring first quarter that saw the teams combine for 11 goals. The Big Red led 6-5 after the second of consecutive Castiello scores, the last with 2.8 seconds remaining to push Cornell into the lead. The Big Red completed a 4-0 run with a pair of scores over the first 1:43 of the second quarter to build a three-goal lead at 8-5, matching that at 9-6, 11-8 and 12-9 before the Crimson went on the attack.

A 4-0 Harvard run spanning the third and fourth quarters pushed the visitors into the lead at 13-12 with just under nine minutes remaining. The Big Red and Ellie Horner kept Harvard in check the rest of regulation and Slaminko scored the equalizer to knot the score at 13-13 with 87 seconds left, setting up the overtime finish.
 

Next Up

• Cornell will return to the road when it faces No. 22 Penn on Saturday, April 15 at 12 p.m. at Franklin Field.
• It will be a Morgan's Message Game.
• The Big Red won last year's meeting between the teams 13-9 and has won three of the past five.
• Prior to that, Penn had won 12 straight matchups.