After Baskind drew first blood in the second half, the Lions’ Taylor Gattinella responded with a score of her own 40 seconds later.

The teams traded goals over the next six minutes until VanderMeulen and Tetreault notched back-to-back scores in under a minute to put their team ahead by four with 14:04 left to play.

Columbia answered with another score to cut the Crimson’s lead to three but Harvard then rattled off six-straight scores to put the match out of reach.

“[Early in the second half], we started taking control, but Columbia kept inching back,” VanderMeulen said. “We kept getting a lead but didn’t capitalize. In the last 10 minutes we were like, ‘This game can’t be close anymore.’ And then we kind of started going nuts.”

Baskind, Cyr, and co-captain Sara Flood each contributed two goals apiece down the stretch to help the Crimson total its second-highest offensive output of the season.

Following Saturday’s victory, the Crimson needed wins from Penn and Dartmouth—the top two teams in the conference—in order to secure the fourth spot in the Ivy League standings and earn a berth in the inaugural Ivy League Tournament. But the Big Green fell, 11-10, in overtime to Princeton yesterday, leaving Harvard just outside the tournament field.

—Staff writer Martin Kessler can be reached at martin.kessler@college.harvard.edu.