Box Score TROY, N.Y. - Nina Christof tied the game with a 5-on-3 power play goal with 2:33 to play in regulation and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) women's hockey team skated to a 3-3 tie with Harvard University in an ECAC Hockey contest at the Houston Field House. The Engineers are now 2-9-1 overall and 0-3-1 in the conference, while the Crimson fall to 1-3-2 and 1-3-2.

Trailing by a goal late in the third period, RPI earned an extended two-skater advantage by drawing a pair of tripping penalties within 1:02 of each other. Following the second, Ellie Kaiser and Magdalena Erbenova combined to get the puck to Christof, who fired a slap shot from the right circle and into the net at the 17:27 mark. 

The Engineers drew another penalty in the overtime period and came within a crossbar of winning the game.

It was Kaiser who pulled the home team to within 3-2 in the second period when she scored just 36 seconds after the Crimson built a 3-1 lead. The junior forward drove down the left side of the ice and cut toward the goal front before going backhand-forehand to get a shot off. Her initial attempt was saved but she gathered the rebound and scored for the second time this season.

A pair of goals by Harvard just over two minutes apart put them ahead 3-1 at 14:40 of the middle stanza. Paige Lester scored on the backhand on a breakaway while shorthanded after collecting a turnover at the RPI blueline (12:14). Gabi Davidson Adams added an even-strength goal when she took a pass from Anne Bloomer, skated across the front of the net midway through the offensive zone, and let go a backhand from the edge of the left circle.

It was Bloomer who gave the Crimson a 1-0 lead when she deflected a Kate Kasica left point shot past RPI goaltender Amanda Rampado. That goal came at 4:22 of the first period and was countered 3:36 later when RPI's Sabrina Beaudoin picked up the puck along the left wing boards and skated along the goal line to the front of the net, where she scored between the legs of Harvard goalie Alex Pellicci. The goal was the first of the career for Beaudoin, as was Christof's late in the third.

Pellicci finished with 36 saves for the visitors with seven coming in the 3-on-3 overtime. Rampado had 22 saves, including 12 in the second period.