The Lake Forest College women's hockey team was defeated 5-4 in overtime by Milwaukee School of Engineering Friday night.

The evening started out well for the Foresters, who honored their seniors before the team's final regular season home game of the year. Two of those seniors, forward Emma Sweeney and defenseman Willow Poppleton, scored in the opening period and the home team was ahead 2-0 at the first intermission. Sweeney's first goal of the season came at the 3:06 mark and Poppleton's fourth at 13:43.

The lead grew to three when sophomore forward Gabriela Giglione struck for the first time this year at the 3:26 mark of the second period.

Unfortunately for the Foresters, the Raiders accounted for the game's next four goals. The visitors converted a power play opportunity at 5:50 in the second period  and trailed by just one going into the third after scoring again with 2:04 on the clock.

MSOE tied the game three-and-a-half minutes into the third period and took the lead less than two minutes later.

The visitors were on the power play again later in the period but it was the Foresters who found the back of the net. The Raiders allowed the puck to escape their offensive zone and Lake Forest's Ella Maher chased it down along the right boards. She was able to cross it to fellow junior forward Jasmine Kohl in the middle of the offensive zone and Kohl spun around to receive the pass a little behind her and fired a shot past the goal to tie the game with 2:23 on the clock. Kohl matched Maher's team-high goal total of eight on the year and became the 13th player in program history with multiple short-handed goals in a season.

Both teams earned one point in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association standings when they were tied at the end of regulation and MSOE gained a second with a goal just 21 seconds into overtime.

The loss dropped the Foresters' overall record on the season to 11-13-0 and NCHA mark to 9-8-0. MSOE improved to 10-12-2 overall and 7-8-2 in the league.

The teams will face off again in Saturday's regular season finale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin with the puck set to drop at 2:00 p.m. Lake Forest needs just one more point to clinch home ice for the quarterfinals of the NCHA Slaats Cup Playoff next weekend.