ITHACA, N.Y. - Union fell, 3-2, to top seeded and #3 Cornell University in the best-of-three quarter final series, resulting in a historic season coming to a close.

Sophomore Maddie Leaney and senior Maren Friday scored for the Garnet Chargers while first-year Brigitte McGuire tallied her first collegiate point with an assist on Leaney's goal. Senior Ashley Adams assisted on Friday's goal.

Both teams came out with pressure, Cornell just edging Union in shots 13 to 8. Union was awarded with an early power play 4:29 into the first period as Cornell's Mckenna Van Gelder received a penalty for hooking. Union had good looks but were unsuccessful at putting one home.

Cornell was awarded a power play just five minutes later, but Union played a strong defensive game to prevent Cornell from scoring. 

Union was awarded with an additional power play as Cornell's Delaney Fleming received a penalty for high sticking with four minutes left in the period. The Garnet Chargers generated solid looks on net, but did not capitalize. Senior goaltender Sophie Matsoukas made an outstanding save at the very end of the period to keep the score locked at zero heading into the middle stanza.

Union were tested seven minutes in the second period, having to spend 1:30 killing off two penalties.Though, play remained five on four, as Cornell's Georgia Schiff also received a penalty for roughing concurrent with Union's second infraction.

However, a too many men on the ice penalty on Union just nine seconds later allowed Cornell to capitalize on their first goal of the evening.

Nearly four minutes later, Union netted the game equalizer. McGuire chipped the puck up to Leaney, who skated in and fired a shot from the left circle into the left bottom corner of the net.

Just under a minute to go in the second period, Union scored the go ahead goal. Adams passed back to Friday who fired a shot from the top of the right circle through traffic into the back of the net.

In the third period, Union was awarded a power play early after Cornell's Lily Delianedis was called for an unsportsmanlike penalty, but the Garnet Chargers were unable to capitalize.

Union played a strong defensive effort for the next 11 minutes of action blocking five shots while senior goaltender Sophie Matsoukas made eight saves. 

However, Cornell was able to score the game tying goal with 1:09 to go in the third period, followed by the game winning goal 27 seconds later. 

Cornell received two penalties at the end of regulation, one on Rory Guilday for cross checking and Avi Adams for body checking.

Matsoukas delivered another solid performance recording 36 saves. 

Women's hockey had the best season in program history. Union improved to 3-0-0 in ECAC Hockey for the first time in program history and also won three straight conference games for the first time as D1 program defeating Harvard and Dartmouth before upsetting #3 Cornell on November 1. The win against #3 Cornell marked the first time women's hockey had beaten a Top-10 nationally ranked team in history. The team then broke the conference win record (six wins) with a 3-2 victory over Harvard on January 18 and set a new single-season wins record (12 wins) with a 2-1 win against Brown on January 31. To cap off the season, Union secured their first-ever playoff win, shutting out Brown, 2-0, in Providence on February 22. 

Brown became the second team this season that women's hockey shut out three games to zero as the Mayor's Cup win marked the first time Union had also swept RPI, 3-0 in a single season. The Mayor's Cup was only the second time in history that women's hockey won the cup, and the first season that both the women's and men's teams won in the same year.

Individually, the team saw significant growth. Matsoukas set the career saves record (3,030 career saves), a record previously held for over a decade by Shenae Lundberg '15 (3,023 career saves). Matsoukas also tied for first in both single-season and career shutouts in the opening round of playoffs against Brown.

Senior captain Maren Friday became the first player in program history to win a major award, taking home the Mandi Schwartz Scholar-Athlete of the Year Award. She also broke the all-time points record among blueliners, tallying her 50th point in the playoff win against Brown on February 22. Friday ended her career with 51 points.

First-year Karianne Engelbert led all freshmen in goal scoring at the end of the first half of the season and currently ranks third among all freshmen. Engelbert also broke the single-season rookie points record, scoring both goals in Union's playoff victory against Brown on February 22. Engelbert finished the season with 24 points and became only the second player in program history to be named to an ECAC team, earning a spot on the ECAC All-Rookie Team on February 24.

Junior Stephanie Bourque broke the single-season goals (8) and points records (22 points) amongst blueliners this season and finished her season with 22 points. Bourque received back-to-back Defensive Player of the Week honors for netting the game winning goal in the overtime victory against Harvard on January 18, and scoring a goal and recording an assist in the Mayor's Cup victory on January 25.

Senior captain Emma Hebert broke the Ironman streak record, playing in her 137th career game in the final regular-season game on February 15 at Quinnipiac. Hebert concluded her career with 140 games played.