Monday night was a big night for the Harvard women's basketball team. Not only did co-captain Allison Feaster gobble up another record in this most filling of seasons, but the Crimson shot the lights out against the Lehigh Mountain Hawks--literally.

Feaster broke the Ivy League's all-time scoring mark on her way to a game-high 32 points as Harvard (13-2) drubbed Lehigh (6-12), 87-58.

Feaster--who entered the game leading the nation in scoring at 28.7 points--broke Dartmouth's Gail Koziara's 16-year old record when her 1,934th career point fell through the net with 4:49 to go in the first half.

Minutes later Feaster tore down her sixth rebound of the game, giving her 1,000 boards in her Harvard career.

"She's worked so hard on her game," said Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. "She's gone off in the summer and just done everything she needs to do."

Feaster's heroics aside, the Crimson turned in one of its better buzzer-to-buzzer performances of the season to win its 18th straight at Lavietes Pavilion, a feat that looks even more impressive given the team's two-and-a-half week hiatus due to the exam period.

Lehigh kept it relatively close in the first half, but junior guard Suzie Miller's second consecutive three-pointer with just over eight minutes remaining in the game capped a 27-6 Crimson run and put Harvard up by 30, 79-49.

And right on cue, the lights over Lehigh's basket flickered, then faded away entirely. The game was stopped for several minutes before the two coaches caucused and decided to resume the blowout in darkness.

"Our whole team was shooting the lights out," Miller said. "If we just keep applying pressure and keep playing hard, they stop making all their shots, we start making ours and we blow teams away, which we did."

Despite winning only a third of their games this season, the Mountain Hawks are not entirely a walkover opponent. Lehigh handed Harvard one of the Crimson's six regular-season losses last season, and the Cantabs have a habit of sluggish starts following exam period. HARVARD  87 LEHIGH  58

"There's no way that two and a half weeks off before a game can not affect you," Miller said. "We had three of the best practices all year this week, and we still had to shake the cobwebs off."

The Mountain Hawks took a 16-13 lead midway through the first half before the Crimson began its initial run. Lehigh's players shot over their heads from the floor, and Harvard's inside players were consistently absent from the boards, as Lehigh won the rebounding battle, 50-45.

"We were outrebounded because we played a zone," said Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith. "Since they couldn't score against the zone, their answer was to rebound. Plus, they did a lot of slashing through the zone, which makes it really hard to rebound."

But when Miller--who notched a career-high 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting--nailed a three at 8:25 of the first half to knot the game at 16, Lehigh's last lead of the game was abruptly terminated. Harvard stepped up its defensive intensity and kept hitting its shots throughout the half, taking a 42-33 lead into the locker room.

"Last year we played the entire game as we played the first three or four minutes of this one, and we weren't going to let that happen again," Miller said.