EAST MEADOW, N.Y. – The Saint Anselm College women's ice hockey team fell to Long Island University by a 3-2 score in overtime on Saturday afternoon.

The Hawks fall to 4-9-1 on the season with a 3-4-1 record in New England Women's Hockey Alliance play. The Sharks improve to 8-6-0 on the year while winning each of their eight league games to date. The Hawks are back in action on Saturday, Nov. 27 and Sunday, Nov. 28 in a home-and-home series with Dartmouth College. Saturday's contest is slated for a 3 p.m. start in Hanover, N.H.

The Sharks found the first goal of the contest at 12:01 of the opening period. Jeannie Wallner managed to keep an attempted clear by the Hawks in the attacking zone. She found Stella Scott inside the left face-off circle and Scott fired a quick snap shot past junior goaltender Allie Kelley (East Berne, N.Y.) on her glove side.

Saint Anselm tied the contest just 59 seconds into the second period as senior Erin Meyers (St. Paul, Minn.) forced a turnover in the Hawks attacking end and sent a slap shot by Sharks netminder Tindra Holm into the bottom-left corner of the net.

The Hawks went to the power play after drawing a tripping penalty at 7:48 of the second stanza. Sophomore Claire Weber (Marshfield, Mass.) kept a clear attempt in the offensive zone and sent a cross-ice pass for Meyers. The captain fired a wrist shot by Holm to give the Hawks a 2-1 lead with the power play goal, using just four seconds of game time with the extra skater.

Over the final 10 minutes of the second period, the Sharks upped the pace and fired eight shots on goal while the Hawks managed just two shots on goal. Kelley stopped a two-on-one chance at 13:13 of the period as she slid to her right and turned aside a Megan Roe shot to preserve the one-goal lead.

The Sharks would tie the game at 15:16 of the third period as Megan Bouveur blocked a shot and sent a pass to the Hawks blue line for Matilda af Bjur. af Bjur drove to the goal in a two-on-zero and passed to Bouveur who made a quick move to her left to beat Kelley and knot the score at two.

In the first minute of the overtime period, Kelley was forced to stop a two-on-one shot by af Bjur and then stopping Abby Latorella in a near breakaway with 4:09 left in the period.

The Hawks best chance to score in the extra time period was on a pair of shots by freshman Audrey Jackson (Shoreview, Minn.). Jackson drove toward goal, sending a shot on Holm that was turned aside and the rebound chance was stopped by Holm as the puck bounced off her mask.

LIU scored the game-winner at 4:16 of overtime as Roe fired a shot on Kelley, which was turned aside as was the second chance shot by Maggie Culp. However, Culp managed to clean up her own rebound to give the Sharks a 3-2 victory.

LIU fired 55 shots on goal while the Hawks sent 37 on frame. Saint Anselm was one-for-four on the power play while LIU did not convert with the extra skater in its two opportunities.

Kelley collected 52 saves in the contest while Holm stopped 35 shots on goal.