CANTON -- The No. 5 St. Lawrence women's hockey team rallied to erase a two-goal deficit with three straight goals, including two by sophomore Nadine Edney, but Colgate battled back to edge the Saints 4-3 in overtime on Friday night at Appleton Arena in Canton.

With the loss, the Saints are now 18-3-2 overall and 10-2-1 in ECAC Hockey games, while the Raiders improve to 16-6-3 overall and 7-5-1 in league games.

"Colgate did a great job all night with their sticks deflecting pucks and causing turnovers," head coach Chris Wells said. "Their transition game was running full steam ahead and it made for an exciting game."

After a scoreless first period. Colgate took a 2-0 lead on a pair of goals just 44 seconds apart early in the second. The Saints responded with a goal from Hannah Miller midway through the frame and Edney's first of two to tie it heading into the third when the team's traded goals to goals to set up overtime. Bailey Larson notched the game winner at 3:12 of overtime to clinch the win for Colgate.

Cat Quirion opened the scoring for the Raiders when she tipped a shot from Shannon Ormel at the side of the net over Grace Harrison's left shoulder at the 1:19 mark of the second period. Megan Sullivan extended that lead to 2-0 for Colgate with a shot from the slot that beat Harrison glove side.

But midway through the period, senior captain Kirsten Padalis hit Hannah Miller with a stretch pass that put Miller in the Colgate zone one-on-one for a nifty backhand-forehand move on Raiders netminder Julia Vandyk and Miller's 10th goal of the season to cut the deficit to 2-1.

With 1:15 to play in the second, Justine Reyes carried the puck beneath the red line before playing it back to Edney, who was left all alone in the slot, for a quick shot and the equalizer to send the teams into the second intermission tied at 2-2.

Early in the third it was Edney again with her second of the night, after she and Kayla Nielsen won a battle on the wall high in the offensive zone. Nielsen laid the puck ahead for the Mississauga, Ont. native who made a move to find space between a pair of Colgate defenders before snapping off a wrister from the slot to give St. Lawrence a 3-2 lead.

Colgate tied the game at 9:10 of the third period with a power play goal from Shelby Perry on the left faceoff dot to force overtime.

Larson's game-winning goal in overtime hit a stick in front and popped over Harrison's shoulder to give the Raiders two key points in the ECAC Hockey standings.

"We haven't been in many close games recently and this is what it will be like heading down the stretch and into the playoffs," Wells explained. "Colgate has had a couple tough bounces recently and they earned and deserved the win tonight."

The Saints outshot Colgate 33-30, including 17 shots in the second period and 10 on the power play. Colgate had the only two shots for both teams in overtime.

Harrison finished with 26 saves for the Saints, while Vandyk made 30 stops for the Raiders.

St. Lawrence will look to rebound on Saturday afternoon against No. 10 Cornell at 3 p.m. in Appleton Arena.