"We were focused on playing our game," Abeles said. "It didn't matter who we were playing."

Teller reached on a fielder's choice that resulted in Amberg being put out at home. Koppel then came up with her second ribbie of the game, plating Abeles on a single to left. McKendry followed with a screamer to left that Curll could not handle, allowing Teller to score the Crimson's seventh run.

It only took two batters for Harvard to seal the deal in the bottom of the sixth, and fittingly they were the Crimson's two captains. Abeles led off the inning with a double off the bottom of the fence in center, and Teller drove in her co-captain with a double down the leftfield line to end the game.

Thoke, meanwhile, was simply overpowering on the mound. The sophomore pitched a complete game two-hitter and allowed only one walk to go with her nine strikeouts.

"Thoke impressed me," Teller said. "She was hitting her spots, her pitches were moving and she kept them off balance the entire game."

Notes

The twin bill versus Holy Cross represented Harvard's first home games of the season after a 15-game trip in California. The Crimson went 4-11 on the West Coast while facing some of the nation's best teams, including Cal State Fullerton and defending national champion Fresno State.

Teller led Harvard at the start of the extended road trip. She batted .562 in the Cal State-Hayward tournament and was named to the all-tournament team. Abeles had the hot bat in the final six games of the spring break trip, batting .444 and stroking her first dinger of the season.