Box Score / Post-Game (Video)

TROY, N.Y. – Senior Allison Wright scored 19 seconds into overtime to lift the Rensselaer women's hockey team to a, 3-2, come-from-behind victory over fifth-ranked Harvard University, this evening at the Houston Field House. With the win, the Engineers improve to 13-11-6 overall and 10-5-4 in ECAC Hockey. The Crimson is now 16-6-4 and 11-6-2 in ECACH.

Wright (Oakville, ON/Oakville Ice) scored the equalizing goal with just 35 seconds left in regulation, when she intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and skated into the Harvard zone. She then let a wrist shot fly from the left face-off dot that caught the top right corner of the net, for an unassisted tally.

In the extra frame, Engineers' sophomore Alisa Harrison (Vienna, VA/Washington Pride) won a draw from the right circle to freshman Taylor Horton (St. Thomas, ON/Bluewater Hawks). Horton found Wright just outside the Crimson crease where the lefty backhanded home the game-winner, just under the crossbar.

Trailing 2-0 and nearing the halfway point of the third period (11:19), Rensselaer got in the board on a point-shot by sophomore Amanda Castignetti (Anchorage, AK/Shattuck St. Mary's). Firing from the right, through traffic, her shot found its way cleanly past Harvard freshman netminder Laura Bellamy (Duluth, MN/Duluth Denfield). Junior Kendra Dunlop (Granum, AB/Warner Hockey School) and senior Allysen Weidner (Wichita, KS/Shattuck St. Mary's) picked up the assists on Castignetti's first of the season.

Harvard got the scoring started on the power-play at 16:45 of the opening frame. Junior Katie Buesser (Wolfeboro, NH/Brewster Academy) redirected a point-shot by senior Katheryn Farni (Minnetonka, MN/Hopkins) past RPI junior goaltender Sonja van der Bliek (Toronto, ON/Toronto Jr. Aeros) for the 1-0 lead.

The Crimson made it 2-0 early in the third (2:22), on one-timer finish from freshman Kaitlin Spurling (Byfield, MA/Noble and Greenough School). Junior Ashley Wheeler (Concord, MA/Lawrence Academy) carried the puck up the left wing boards and sent a pass across the goal mouth to Spurling who stuff in her eighth goal of the year.

van der Bliek (12-11-5) made 28 saves, including 15 in the third period, to earn the victory, while Bellamy (7-3-1) recorded 30 stops at the other end of the ice.

The Engineers are back in action tomorrow afternoon when they take on Dartmouth (4pm). Harvard travels to Schenectady to take on Union (4pm).