PROVIDENCE, RI- The Hartwick women's water polo team jumped out to an early 5-0 lead but Indiana came back to tie and eventually win in overtime 12-10 on Sunday afternoon in the fifth-place game at the CWPA Eastern Championships played at Brown University's Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center.

Kamila Zakirova (Almaty Kazakhstan) led the Hawks with six goals. Jemma Dendy Young (Cape Town, South Africa) contributed two goals. Alyssa Analytis (Montreal Quebec) and Lily Martinez (Commerce, CA) both chipped in one goal.

Haley Cox (El Segundo, CA) had 13 saves in the cage for Hartwick.

For the Hoosiers, Summer Creighton, Shelby Taylor, Alexis Jones, Shae Fournier, and Colleen McNaught each posted pairs of goals while Meghan Lappan and Hanna Eimstad chipped in solo scores.

In the cage, Cassie Wyckoff stopped six shots for Indiana.

The game was all Hawks in the early going as Dendy Young tossed in the game's first goal at the 6:01 mark of the first quarter to give Hartwick the early lead.  Zakirova cushioned the Hawk lead as she connected on back-to-back-to-back scoring shots at 5:29, 4:23 and 3:25 to complete a hat-trick and push the margin out to 4-0 by the conclusion of the opening period of play.

Hartwick continued to pour it on to start the second quarter as Dendy Young floated a ball into the cage 44 seconds into the period to make it a 5-0 game.

The Hoosiers finally got on the board when Creighton scored with exactly six minutes remaining in the first half. Taylor and McNaught continued the Hoosiers' comeback bid as the duo deposited balls into the cage at 5:05 and 4:25, respectively, to make it a 5-3 game.

Hartwick ended Indiana's run with a marker of their own from the hand of Zakirova at 2:50, but Jones converted on an advantage chance at 1:29 and Eimstad tacked on an even-strength strike with nine seconds left on the period clock to cut it down to 6-5 prior to the halftime horn.

Martinez returned the Hawks' lead to two goals with 5:33 left in the third quarter via a man-up score, which elicited a yellow card warning to Indiana head coach Barry King for arguing the ejection call.

The card appeared to spark the Hawks as Zakirova dumped in shots at 5:01 and 4:35 to build the margin to 9-5 with the clock and the momentum shifting dramatically in favor of Hartwick.

The Hoosiers began to turn the tide as Fournier (4:06) and Taylor (00:52) closed the period with consecutive man-up strikes to sandwich a yellow card to Hartwick head coach Alan Huckins and move Indiana within 9-7 through three quarters of play.

McNaught made it a one-goal game 1:24 into the fourth quarter with the Hoosiers' third straight score, but Analytis responded at 4:50 to return the spread to two goals at 10-8.

Lappan laced a man-up shot through the Hawks' defense at 2:27 to close the deficit to one goal.  The teams met at 10-all with 23 seconds remaining in regulation as Creighton scored past Cox.

Hartwick had a chance to end the contest in regulation, but a shot from five meters out sailed over the crossbar and into the netting behind the cage to conclude regulation and bring on a pair of three-minute overtime periods.

Following a scoreless first OT frame in which neither team was able to manage much in terms of offense, the Hoosiers broke through for the game-winner 53 seconds into the second OT period when Jones bashed a ball past Cox with 2:07 on the clock to make it 11-10.  Indiana added an insurance goal nearly a minute later when Fournier dashed the Hawks' comeback hopes with a successful five-meter penalty shot with 1:10 left for the 12-10 final score.

Hartwick concludes its season with a final record of 28-13.

Zakirova was named to the All-Tournament Second Team.

With a sixth-place finish, Hartwick places below fifth at the Eastern Championship for the first time since becoming a varsity sport and joining the league in 2000.

In 2003 at Harvard University, Hartwick knocked off the host Crimson 9-5 OT to claim fifth place in a then 12-team field.  Over the last decade, the Hawks had never finished worse than fifth notching first (2004, 2006, 2007), second (2002, 2008, 2009), third (2001, 2005, 2010) fourth (2011) and fifth (2003) place marks.