No. 13 Women's Hockey Earns Overtime Win Over Harvard

Saturday, November 15

Providence, R.I.

3 p.m.

Brown University

7-2-1, 3-2-1

Harvard

5-4-1, 3-4-1

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Harvard

Brown

Photo by: Jay Ruzicka

No. 13 Women's Hockey Earns Overtime Win Over Harvard

11/15/2025 6:46:00 PM | Women's Ice Hockey

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – No. 13 Brown women's hockey (7-2-1, 3-2-1 ECAC) picked up its fourth-straight victory with a 4-3 overtime win over Harvard (5-4-1, 3-4-1 ECAC) on Friday night (Nov. 15) at Meehan Auditorium.

Monique Lyons finished the game with two goals, including the game-winner at 3:56 in the extra period. Lyons now has seven goals on the season and three-game winners this year. Isabella Gratzl and India McDadi also scored for the Bears. Gratzl, Lyons, McDadi, Sam Broz, Martina Accardi, Ava DeCoste and Jade Iginla all picked up assists for Brown.

Anya Zupkofska picked up the win (4-0-0) for Brown in net with 25 saves. Zupkofska allowed three goals on the night, giving up her first goals of the season, ending a shutout streak of over 180:00 minutes.

The scoring came quick in the first with Harvard beating Zupkofska 6:26 into the game.

Brown answered just two minutes later on the power play, as Gratzl found Lyons in front of the net and Lyons beat Izzy Whynot to tie up the score.

The tie was short lived as Morgan McGathey scored her second goal of the game 27 seconds later to put Harvard up 2-1.

Late in the first, Brown forced a turnover underneath the Harvard goal and Lyons passed back to Gratzl in between the circles. The first year, ripped a shot over the blocker to make it 2-2.

With just three minutes left in the second period, Brown turned the puck over as a pass off the boards behind the goal went right in front of the Bears' goal and Harvard's Zoe Boosamra's one-timer beat Zupkofska to give Harvard the 3-2 lead.

With just six minutes left in the game, Brown found itself down a player after a penalty. Harvard had the puck underneath Brown's goal but McDadi came out of the scrum with the puck. McDadi passed to Iginla and duo ran a picture-perfect give-and-go with McDadi making a move in front and finishing with a backhand to tie the game.

The Bears were forced to kill off a penalty in the last minute of regulation to send the game to overtime. Brown was then playing 4-on-3 for the first minute of overtime and finished off the penalty to get back to even strength.

Back to playing 3-on-3 the Bears earned possession with just over a minute to play. Broz weaved her way through the Harvard defense before Lyons opened up in front of the net. A quick pass to Lyons and a quick wrister sent the Bears' fans home happy.

GAME NOTES

Lyons has scored a goal in each of her last four games and posted a season-high three points. Lyons has five goals and seven points in the Bears win streak.
Brown has now won seven-straight games against the Crimson. It is the longest win-streak for the Bears in the series since winning 11-straight games from 1993-98.
The Bears (7-2-1) are off to their best 10-game start since going 8-2-0 to start the 1999-00 season.
Brown is now 4-0-4 in their last eight overtime games, including going 2-0-1 this season. The Bears have not lost an overtime game since Nov. 8 of last season against Colgate.
The Bears killed off three penalties on the night. Brown has not allowed a power play goal in nine of their 10 games this year, killing off 27 penalties in those nine games.

UP NEXT
Brown will head north as the Bears will make the trip to Clarkson (Nov. 21) and St. Lawrence (Nov. 22) as ECAC play continues.

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