"After losing the opening relay at last year's meet, we didn't want the first event to affect our momentum for the whole meet," senior Adrienne Leight said. "But it still got us really excited. That win set the wheels in motion for the next few events, which we performed really well in."

Those next few events left little doubt in the Bears' minds that this was the Crimson's day.

Brown superstar Katie Cowan was able to win the 1,000-freestyle, which followed the first relay, but sophomores Tina Weiner and Rebekah Lorenz, along with freshman Meaghan Casey, countered that victory by finishing second through fourth, cutting Brown's gain from the race down to one point.

(First place in each race is worth nine points, while second, third and fourth are worth four, three and two points, respectively.)

During the next five events the Crimson was simply unstoppable.

Harvard dominated the 200-freestyle with freshmen Jane Humphries and Victoria Chang finishing one-two with times of 1:54.51 and 1:54.62, respectively.

Next on tap was a tight finish in the 100-backstroke, with the top five finishers touching the wall within one second of each other. The Crimson wanted the win more, however, as McDougall and junior Angie Peluse powered ahead of the field to snake a one-two finish.

Feeding from that excitement, senior Alexis Todor continued her winning ways by blowing away the field by over a second in the 100-breaststroke with a 1:05.26 finish, her best time ever.