After over three weeks of inactivity, the Harvard women’s hockey team got off to a slow start at No. 10 Princeton, ultimately losing 4-3 in overtime on Friday night.

The No. 9 Crimson started slowly against Yale as well, but exploded in the third period for four goals, earning a 7-2 victory on Saturday. After the weekend split, Harvard’s record stands at 9-7-1, 4-2-1 in the ECAC North, good enough for fifth place.

Harvard 7, Yale 2

Against Yale (5-9-1, 2-5-0), Harvard faced a lesser opponent who played up to its opposition.

Harvard took an early lead as senior third-line forward Vanessa Bazzocchi netted her first goal of the season. Freshmen forward Ali Crum sent the puck from behind the net to Bazzocchi, who one-timed it in.

Yale responded five minutes later when junior forward Rory Neuner put the puck past senior goaltender Alison Kuusisto to tie the game at one. Kuusisto was screened and couldn’t see the shot from Neuner, who was free in front of the net.

Kuusisto started again over injured sophomore Jessica Ruddock, who is listed as day-to-day with a hip injury.

Harvard regained the lead early in the second period, thanks to freshman winger Nicole Corriero and junior center Kalen Ingram. The Corriero-from-Ingram combination tallied for the tenth time this year at the 6:36 mark on the power play. The score extended Corriero’s goal-scoring streak to nine games. It was also Ingram’s 100th career point, a milestone for the Harvard junior.

Five minutes later, the duo would strike again, this time with Ingram scoring the goal and Corriero getting the assist. Ingram picked up a Corriero rebound, patiently hesitated and then shelfed the puck above Yale goaltender Katie Hirte.

The Bulldogs cut the lead to one when senior forward Sara Wood scored on a breakaway at 14:16 of the second, but that would be the last Yale goal of the evening. To that point, Yale had been kept in the game by Hirte, who would finish with 39 saves.

“She was standing on her head,” Corriero said.

In the third period, Harvard’s finally broke the game open.

“They were begging for the red line, dumping the puck in the zone all the time,” Kuusisto said. “They couldn’t deal with our pressure.”

Harvard outshot Yale 19-8 in the third period and 46-20 overall.

Freshmen sensation Corriero took the puck in on her own and deked by a defender before putting it in the goal for her nation-leading 21st of the season at 4:06 in the third. Bazzocchi and Ingram assisted the play.