With two minutes and 10 seconds left in the fourth quarter, junior midfielder Kelsey Farkas found the back of the net off an assist from senior midfielder Jennifer Trieschman, bringing the season’s last contest with Harvard to a final score of 2-1.

As a yellow-shirted referee whistles, play stops. Defenders hurry to grab their masks and line up shoulder-to-shoulder in goal, gathering in a tight formation around the goalkeeper. Soon enough, an opposing player smacks the ball toward the front of the defensive box, and a shot comes whizzing at the goalie and the defensive unit.

In what is beginning to look like a pattern, the buzzer to end regulation sounded with the Lions’ game still knotted up: a 3-3 tie at the end of the fourth quarter in Friday’s matchup against Yale sent Columbia to its fourth consecutive overtime game.

With less than five minutes to go at Chase Field in Hanover, New Hampshire, the Lions trailed three goals to one, their match against Dartmouth seemingly decided.

On a chilly Friday night at the Baker Athletics Complex, the Lions huddled, setting a game plan for a back-and-forth contest against Penn that had just entered overtime.

In an away game on Saturday, the No. 7 Tigers dismantled the Lions 8-1 in a dominant performance that began in just the first 15 minutes of the match.

In back-to-back contests on Saturday and Sunday, Columbia field hockey fell in hard-fought games to Cornell and No. 21 University at Albany.

After beginning its season with a .500 record, including memorable victories against ranked opponents in No. 22 Boston University and No. 24 Maine, Columbia field hockey (5-3, 1-0 Ivy) topped Brown (2-6, 0-1 Ivy) and Quinnipiac (3-6) on Friday and Sunday in a surge that has inspired confidence throughout the team.

In its season’s first homestand, Columbia volleyball defeated Fordham, San Jose State, and Long Island University in back-to-back battles at the Big Apple Tournament on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The three-game win streak propelled the team to its best start in almost a decade.