Her goal was answered less than a minute later by a goal from Columbia freshman attack Kate Lombard.

At 3:03, Sproul turned in a goal off an assist from freshman attack Margaret Yellot to regain the lead for Harvard.

Yellot, who has been a lynchpin of the Crimson offense all season had a relatively quiet game, with just one assist and one shot on goal.

Columbia came charging right back just 34 seconds later to tie the score again at 2-2.

Shining for the Lions in the first half was senior attack Adie Moll, who turned in a hat-trick between 18:02 and 19:59, with two goals just 36 seconds apart off assists from sophomore midfielder Carrie Anderer. Her last goal pushed Columbia to a 5-4 lead.

Belitsos, Brooks and Owens each scored twice in the first half.

After a relative drought early in the second half, Harvard picked up where it had left off with a Belitsos goal off an Owens assist 24:14 into the second half to set the score at 9-6.

Fifty-three seconds later Brooks found the back of the net, and 1:23 after that freshman attack scored off an assist from Kaveney.

Five minutes later Belitsos capped off the Crimson run with another goal.

By that point the score stood at 13-6.

Harvard’s dominance was interrupted only once in the second half by a free position goal by Lions freshman midfielder Elyse Pultz.

Harvard capped its coup with two free position goals by Belitsos and freshman attack Perry Barlow in the last 2:30 of the game.

Discussing the Crimson’s run in the second half, Sproul suggested that the lopsided performance may have happened because the team was not playing at full speed in the first half.

“I think we coming into the game we may not have been as fired up as we had been,” she said. “We recognized what we were doing wrong at halftime and we were able to collect it for the second half effectively.”

Harvard faces its last opponent of the season, Cornell, this Saturday at home.

Team members say they are looking to this game as a real test of what their team can do.

Pointing out that the Big Red only defeated Columbia by two points, Sproul said she was optimistic about the Crimson’s chances.

“We haven’t beaten them in a couple of years and this sets us up for a chance to show them that our program is right up there with theirs,” she said.

—Staff writer Nathaniel A. Smith can be reached at nsmith@fas.harvard.edu.