One year ago, the Yale women's soccer team humbled Harvard by a 20 score in what was one of the Crimson's toughest losses of the season.

When Saturday's rematch started, the Crimson looked like a team seeking revenge, striving extra hard for loose balls and pummeling the Eli net with a ton of good scoring opportunities.

When the smoke finally cleared 90 minutes later, Harvard (5-2-2 overall, 3-0-1 Ivy) had scored a season-high four goals en route to a 4-2 sinking of Yale (3-9-0, 0-4-0) at Ohiri Field.

"We're not really all that fond of Yale," sophomore Dana Tenser said. "It definitely was a sense of revenge. We couldn't have a letdown again."

That was a mild way of putting it.

Some of the usually mild-mannered Harvard fans (relatives of the players, friends, etc.) were calling for nothing but "blood and guts" to spew out of the Eli players.

And that's what they got, figuratively, early in the match. Two early first-half goals gave the Crimson a 25-0 lead which it would never relinquish.

The scoring opened when freshman Keren Gudeman crossed the ball to Tenser to the right of Yale goalie Caroline Haist, but Haist blocked Tenser's drive with the tip of her hand.

Senior Sara Simmons was in perfect position for the rebound, and she lofted the ball over the fallen Haist and into the net 6:01 in.

"Well, it was teed up for me pretty nicely," Simmons admitted. "It was definitely a group effort."

Eight minutes later, the Elis were shaking their heads again.

Freshman midfielder Emily Stauffer made an almost end-to-end rush down the left side of the field, while Tenser had beaten her defender down the right side to create a two-on-one break.

Stauffer took the shot herself and deposited a perfect ball into the upper right corner to give Harvard a 2-0 lead less than 15 minutes into the match.

The Crimson continued to put on the pressure but it caught several bad breaks. With nine minutes to go, junior Sara Noonan clanked a shot off the post, while Simmons deflected a Tenser cross wide right.

The toughest break, however, came in the form of Stauffer's wrist. Yale found a way to stop the swift midfielder by legally tripping her up, but Staufler landed on her wrist, fracturing it. She will miss about two weeks of action.