The Yale Invitational also gave Harvard a chance to examine some weaknesses that need to be improved upon.

“It’s early in the season so our major improvements lie in execution,” Dewey said. “We have been pretty good at recognizing opportunities thus far, but more practice and games together means that we’ll able to capitalize on those opportunities more consistently and put some balls in the back of the net.”

Anderson echoed her view, saying, “As we prepare for an invitational tournament at Princeton on Saturday, we will build on everything we learned this weekend. We are becoming much more comfortable with the coaching style of new head coach Scott Russell and with our own strategies.”

The Crimson hope to take the experience gained from the past weekend’s games when they meet again with Brown at the Princeton Invitational next weekend.

—Staff writer Megha Parekh can be reached at parekh@fas.harvard.edu