Joey Yenne saved her best performance of the year for arguably the biggest game yet.

She scored a hat trick against Yale in Saturday's women's soccer match, bringing her goal total up to eight for the year, already two more than the total in her freshman campaign.

Yenne, a sophomore forward from St. Cloud, Minnesota, netted all three Harvard goals, carrying the Crimson to a 3-1 victory and setting up a showdown with Princeton, the only undefeated team left in the Ivy League.

Yenne, a consistent scorer in her two seasons at Harvard, has been

especially needed this year with the injury to last year's scoring leader, sophomore Beth Totman.

Yenne does more than threaten to score. She puts the ball in the goal. Her knack for the net developed at Pensacola High School, where she scored an incredible 71 goals in 1996 before making the move to St. Cloud Tech.

While this is Yenne's second hat trick of the year (her first came against Vermont), her performance against the Elis was her most impressive.

"Joey had a phenomenal game," said co-captain Brooke McCarthy. "It's huge to do this against rivals like Yale. Ivy League games are usually a lot closer, the play is tougher."