Even coming off of a doubleheader which clinched the division, the Crimson’s performance waned little in a first-game blowout victory over Dartmouth.
The lineup looked different than it has during other games this season, but many of the team’s regulars still started and contributed.
Junior Ellen Macadam, in the leadoff spot, reached base four times, going 3-for-4 with a home run. Shaw went 2-for-3 with an RBI and two runs batting third.
Harvard blew the game open in the third and fourth innings, leading by six going into the bottom half of the fourth. A three-run home run from senior Jennifer Francis in the top of the third—her fifth of the year—proved to be enough offense in the first game of the afternoon.
The Crimson chased Big Green starter Hillary Barker with two outs in the fifth. She was charged with seven runs in the game, all earned despite two Dartmouth errors.
Sophomore Julia Moore—making her 12th start of the year—pitched a complete game for Harvard, throwing five scoreless innings before giving up a home run to Big Green catcher Leigha Clarkson in the sixth. She allowed five hits and two walks to go with four strikeouts.
“I thought we had a great performance today and a very good start in the first game from Julia Moore,” Allard said. “We wanted to have a fresh arm throw Game 3 [of the weekend series].”
With the win, Moore improved to 5-4 to end the regular season.
“It was awesome, to come down to Dartmouth [and] to beat them,” Black said. “Awesome, awesome feeling.”
—Staff writer E. Benjamin Samuels can be reached at samuels@college.harvard.edu.