The Crimson kept its foot on the gas for the remainder of the period, but despite a productive power play late in the frame, it could not find the equalizer.

Freshman Kalley Armstrong was whistled for hooking 1:40 into the third, and it didn’t take Cornell long to take advantage of the power play. The Big Red needed only 23 seconds to cycle the puck around to White at the right post, and the junior knocked it past Bellamy for the 4-2 lead.

But Harvard fought back again, capitalizing on a power-play opportunity of its own at the 9:54 mark. Freshman Lyndsey Fry hit classmate Gina McDonald with a pass, and the rookie put a shot on net. Slebodnick deflected the puck into open ice, and sophomore Jillian Dempsey swooped in and slammed the rebound into the open side of the net.

The Crimson outshot Cornell, 12-10, in the third period, and had plenty of chances to tie the game up—particularly on its two power plays in the last eight minutes of the game. On the first power play, Big Red defender Lauriane Rougeau made a big play in the crease to break up a key opportunity, and on the second, Pucci hit the pipe with 1:30 to play.

Stone pulled Bellamy with 33 seconds to go, but despite a 6-on-4 advantage generated by Karpenko’s tripping penalty, Harvard could not tie it up.

“[It’s] extremely frustrating,” Buesser said. “We don’t come to these games for just coming close and almost. We came to this game [for] a win, and it’s frustrating. But we just hope next time we’ll bury those, for sure.”

The Crimson’s six seniors—Ashley Wheeler, Katharine Chute, Deboray Conway, and tri-captains Leanna Coskren, Liza Ryabkina, and Buesser—were recognized after the game, their last regular-season game in a Harvard uniform.

The Crimson ends the regular season in second place in the conference standings, and the team will host seventh-seed St. Lawrence (16-16-2, 11-11-0) in a best-of-three playoff series beginning on Friday.

—Staff writer Kate Leist can be reached at kleist@fas.harvard.edu.