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HAMILTON – Jessie Eldridge (Barrie, Ontario) scored the game-winning shorthanded goal with 4:57 left in the game Saturday night and the No. 3/3 Colgate women's ice hockey team scored three unanswered goals to close the game in a huge 5-4 comeback victory at Class of 1965 Arena.
 
The Raiders stormed back from a two-goal deficit to complete the come-from-behind victory to overcome a two-goal deficit for the first time since Oct. 21, 2016 at Syracuse.
 
First-year Bailey Bennett (Gardena, California) tallied a pair of goals, including the game-tying goal, for her first career two-goal game. Eldridge, Shae Labbe (Calgary, Alberta) and Bailey Larson (Sycamore, Illinois) also scored for the Raiders in the win.
 
Trailing by two goals, Larson tallied her sixth goal of the season to cut the Cornell lead in half at 4-2 with 11:13 to go in the second period. Labbe and Jackie Leone (Andover, Massachusetts) each tallied assists on Larson's goal.
 
Bennett picked up her second of the game with 11:58 to play in the third period to tie the game. Annika Zalewski (New Hartford, New York) ripped a shot from the point and Bennett deflected the puck past Cornell goaltender Marlene Boissonnault.
 
Eldridge completed the Raiders comeback with 4:57 to go in the third period as she scored her fifth career shorthanded goal. After receiving a pass from Larson, Eldridge raced into the offensive zone and stopped on a dime in the left faceoff circle as a Cornell defender fell past her. Eldridge snapped her wrister top shelf past Boissonnault for the game-winner.
 
The Raiders initially got on the board with 12:36 left in the first period as Bennett tallied her first of the game to take a 1-0 lead. Shelby Perry (Elginburg, Ontario) drew the Cornell defender before working the puck across to Lauren Wildfang (Waterdown, Ontario). As Cornell goaltender Marlene Boissonnault was getting in position for a Wildfang shot, Wildfang slid the puck to Bennett wide open on the back door for the early goal.
 
Cornell scored three goals over the next 8:14 of game-time as Paige Lewis tied the game with 10:11 left in the first before Lenka Serdar claimed the lead for the Big Red. Lewis added a third goal for the Big Red with 1:57 left in the first period.
 
Labbe got a goal back for the Raiders as she netted a power-play goal with just 0.7 second to play in the first period. Labbe's goal was her team-leading 10^th of the season off a blast from the left wing.
 
The Big Red got back on board to reclaim a two-goal lead as Grace Graham put home her third goal of the season with 14:26 to go in the second period before the Raiders scored three straight goals to seal the victory.
 
BOTTOM LINE
No. 3/3 Colgate 5, No. 7/7 Cornell 4
 
WIN/LOSS RECORDS
The Raiders completed the comeback to improve to 14-4-0 (6-2-0 ECAC Hockey) while the Big Red's six-game unbeaten streak was snapped as Cornell fell to 8-4-1 (6-2-0 ECAC Hockey)
 
KEY RAIDER INFO
-Eldridge's fifth career shorthanded goal served as the game-winner for the Raiders
-Colgate overcame a two-goal deficit for the first time since last October at Syracuse
-Bennett recorded two goals in the same game for the first time in her career
-Labbe tallied her 10^th goal of a season and added an assist for her 20^th career multi-point effort
-Larson picked up her 30^th career goal and an assist for her 17^th career multi-point game
-Larson is the sixth active player to scorer 30 career goals
-Wildfang and Perry each picked up assists for the Raiders, the top two assist totals on the season for the Raiders.
-Zalewski recorded her eighth assist of the season
-Julia Vandyk (Cambridge, Ontario) tallied 22 saves in the win for the Raiders to earn her ninth victory of the season

FACTS AND FIGURES
-The Raiders outshot the Big Red, 30-26, with a 10-5 edge in the second period
-Colgate went 1 for 2 on the power play while Cornell went 0 for 4
-The Big Red held the edge in faceoffs for the second straight game, 36-30.
 
FROM THE SOURCE
Head Coach Greg Fargo
"It was a typical Colgate-Cornell game, it always comes down to one goal and seems to be hectic at the end. Both teams played really well this weekend. It's probably fitting that it ended with each team winning one game.
 
"Since day one, the depth throughout our lineup has been one of our strengths. Not just offensively, we're getting contributions on both sides of the puck. We feel really good about our lineup and I feel like we match up well against most of the teams we play against. Today was no different."
 
UP NEXT
No. 3/3 Colgate women's ice hockey wraps up play for the 2017 calendar year against the No. 9/9 Robert Morris Colonials with puck drop set for 3 p.m. on Saturday.