In the fifth inning, she laced a triple down the right-field line that scored captain infielder Ellen Macadam to give Harvard the lead for good.

“Their pitcher had been pitching me outside pitches the whole game, and she finally gave me an inside pitch, so I just turned on it,” Lange said.

In the bottom of the same inning, Allard put her ace, junior pitcher Rachel Brown, on the mound for the three-inning save.

Brown not only kept the Terriers from scoring but also didn’t allow a single runner to reach base.

In the three innings that she pitched, she baffled hitters, recording seven strikeouts for the Crimson, and finished the game by striking out the side in the seventh inning.

Crimson coach Jenny Allard and her staff decided to mix up the team’s game-plan and placed two pitchers on the mound against the Terriers.

“That was one of the few games we have really had [Ricciardone and Brown] combine together,” Allard said. “I thought it was great that BU had not seen Laura in the fall, so we wanted to give her the start and have Rachel close.”

The duo of Ricciardone and Brown combined for 10 strikeouts in seven innings.

“The pitchers did a really good job,” Allard said. “We wanted to give them both work heading into the weekend, and because the forecast for Thursday doesn’t look great, we wanted to keep everyone fresh rather than one person shouldering the load.

The cold weather and erratic conditions haven’t kept Harvard from preparing for the all-important Ivy League play that starts late next week.

“Over this next week and a half before our conference starts, we figure some [non-conference games] are going to get cancelled, and we have to figure out how to play in the colder weather,” said Allard. “[The team] really did a good job. They really kept their hands warm and stepped up, which was really good to see before this weekend.”