The Harvard women’s volleyball team channeled its frustration from a Friday night loss to Cornell into an all-out spanking of a much weaker Columbia squad.

The Crimson (7-13, 6-4 Ivy) blew out the Lions on Saturday afternoon at the Malkin Athletic Center by a 3-0 margin (30-26, 30-14, 30-15).

The thumping of Columbia came on the heels of a Cornell (17-3, 7-3) match in which Harvard seemed out-of-sync and a step behind the Big Red. The result was a sound 3-0 defeat (16-30, 28-30, 24-30).

“Our team did not show up Friday night,” said co-captain and middle hitter Mariah Pospisil.

Harvard 3, Columbia 0

Harvard was looking to avenge Friday night’s loss to Cornell, and the Crimson executed its mission throughout the entire match.

“We knew Columbia wasn’t as strong as Cornell, so we wanted to play at our level,” said junior setter Kim Gould. “We wanted to focus on our side of the court and do what was in our control well.”

The second game was the most telling demonstration of the Crimson’s intent, as Harvard jumped out to a 13-2 lead behind an 11-point serving run that included two aces by freshman middle hitter Katie Turley-Molony.

“I was trying to keep them off-balance,” said Turley-Molony, the reigning Ivy League Player of the Week.

The strategy worked, as undermanned Columbia (0-18, 0-8), which has only seven players on its entire squad, looked disconcerted and bewildered. It could not catch up as the Crimson built a 15-point lead at 27-12, cruising to victory with its biggest lead of the night, 30-14.

Turley-Molony was a major offensive threat for Harvard, hitting an astounding .667 with 10 kills.

The Lions came out flat in the first game, letting the Crimson build an 11-5 lead. Harvard, which averages 1.64 blocks a game, blocked Columbia twice within the first eight points. That left the Lions tentative, as they reverted to tipping instead of swinging attacks.

However, Columbia was not yet down for the count, as it rallied behind the hitting and blocking of senior Cassie Bryan to draw the score even at 15.

That’s when junior outside hitter Nilly Schweitzer went to work for the Crimson. After the tie at 15-15, Schweitzer slammed six of her seven kills of the game to help Harvard pull away to 25-22.

The Lions took a timeout, but that only seemed to give the Crimson more momentum as Harvard won the next two points, instigating another Columbia timeout. The Lions continued to battle, but senior outside hitter Amy Dildine slammed the door on Columbia with a kill from the right side to end the game.