Even in its most convincing victory of theweekend, the Crimson had to overcome an earlydeficit, Yale jumped out to a 3-0 lead against Guyin the first inning, but Harvard did not wait longto respond.

The Crimson capitalized on several mistakes bythe Elis and used some timely hitting to scorefour runs in the bottom half of the first andthree more in the second. LaSovage started thingsin the first when she reached base after lining ahit off Yale third baseman Haley Flynn's glove andstealing second.

Freshman Lisa Watanabe followed with a grounderto short, but Kathy Ching threw high to first,allowing Watanabe to reach and LaSovage to scoreHarvard's first run. After Watanabe advanced tosecond on a wild pitch, Harvard co-captain DeborahAbeles smashed on RBI double off the fence in leftfield.

Abeles advanced to third on another wild pitch,Teller walked and Koppel singled to right to plateAbeles and tie the game at 3-3. McKendry thencrushed a towering single to the left-field fencethat loaded the bases. Two outs later, McKendrytrotted home on the third wild pitch of theinning.

"We know we can [score like that] in everygame," Abeles said. "I think we expect that, soI'm glad we got it going."

The following inning, LaSovaga started anotherflurry by ripping the first pitch she saw into theright-field corner for a leadoff triple. LaSovagescored when Watanabe grounded to third and thethrow across the diamond was dropped.

Abeles drove Watanabe in with a high doubleinto right field. Teller's single up the middleplated Abeles, and Harvard was in control of thecontest, 7-3.

"We're playing well and hitting the ball well,"Teller said. "It's always good to beat Yale;they're one of our big rivals."

Guy, meanwhile, had settled down on the mound.The freshman pitched a stellar game, surrenderingfour hits and striking out four in seven inningsof work. At one point, Guy retired 10 batters in arow.

"[Guy] was a little nervous at the start, butshe totally bounced back," Teller said. "She wasdominant for the rest of the game, keeping theball low and out."

The Crimson amassed 13 hits against the Elis,led by Abeles's 4-for-4, three-RBI performance.Teller and LaSovage each went 2-for-3, and Telleradded two RBI while LaSovage scored twice.

Harvard 2, Yale 1

The first game of the weekend saw Harvardcollect 10 hits but muster only two runs as keyhits proved difficult to come by. But once againtwo runs were enough for the win behind Thoke'sdominant pitching.

The sophomore hurler allowed only one earnedrun in a complete-game two-hitter. Thoke walkedfour and struck out nine.

Harvard took a 1-0 lead in the second inningwhen Amberg's single to right scored Teller fromthird. The Crimson doubled that advantage in thesixth when Fu's infield single plated McKendry.