Box Score BOSTON, Mass. – The No. 5 seed Bulldogs came so close to advancing past No. 4 Harvard to the ECAC Hockey Semifinals. Claire Dalton, who tied the game in the closing seconds of regulation, had two goals and an assist and Gianna Meloni made a career-high 55 saves but the Yale Women's Hockey Team dropped a 4-3, triple-overtime decision at Bright Landry Center.
 
The Crimson scored 2:39 into the third extra frame to end Yale's season. The Bulldogs, who had a program best 17 wins this winter, erased three deficits to send the game to overtime.
 
After a scoreless first period and an early Harvard tally in the second, Dalton (6 points on weekend) tied the game at 13:35. Emma Seitz started the play by moving it out of her end and then passing to Charlotte Welch, who skated into the left circle before a defender went down to try and knock the puck away. Welch, who had a hat trick yesterday and finished with six points this weekend, moved it quickly to the middle for Dalton who immediately snapped a shot inside the left post for her 11^th goal of the year.
 
Grace Lee one-timed a perfect lead pass from Welch on a power play to even the score at 2-2, but the home team grabbed another lead.
 
The visitors pulled Meloni for the extra skater after Harvard's power-play tally at 18:44 seemingly gave the Crimson a late 3-2 victory. However, the Bulldogs would not quit. Saroya Tinker's blast from the point was re-directed in the low slot by Dalton with 14.1 seconds left in regulation.
 
This was not the first time these ancient rivals went "the distance" in a women's hockey playoff series at Boston. The 2013 ECAC Quarterfinals included a Yale win in the opener before Harvard came back to win the last two. The first two games of that series went to double overtime.
 
Meloni had 16 saves in the first period and probably never thought she would have to play four more periods. The junior had notched a career-best 43 the night before in another OT game won by Yale.