“One of the strengths of this team is that it’s a true team,” Allard said. “If one person’s not producing, somebody else steps up. If a person’s not given the chance, somebody steps up.”

Harvard 8, Penn 0 (6 inn.)

In the second game of the doubleheader, the Quakers made the even deadlier decision to pitch to Whitton.

Whitton opened the scoring with a first-inning homer and broke the game open with a three-run homer in the fourth.

In the sixth, Quaker starter Rebecca Ranta started Whitton off with a couple of pitches inside, refusing to come into the zone.

Finally, she tossed a pitch Whitton could handle and sure enough, the Crimson slugger smacked a home run to deep center, giving the Crimson an eight-run lead and invoking the mercy rule to end the game.

“I looked for a pitch to hit and I swung,” Whitton said. “It happened to go out today.”

Crimson senior Suzanne Guy shut down the Quakers, giving up only one hit in five innings.

“Sometimes you get a little tense and makes your balls not drop as much, or curve as much,” Guy said. “But I was a little more loose today.”

Guy credited the team’s run-production with helping her loosen up.

“It makes it a lot easier to be more relaxed, because you don’t get into situation where you’re worried about the one run,” she said.

Buoyed by the 3-1 weekend, Harvard now must tend with Rhode Island on Thursday before travelling to Columbia and Cornell for the weekend.

Harvard 7, Penn 2

at Soldier’s Field