Yale wasn’t out of the frame just yet—Harvard scored two more runs on a Macadam double before the third out.

Yale’s sole score of the twinbill came in the top of the fourth inning, when Christy Nelson homered to left-center field. Despite the one blemish of the day, members of the Harvard squad were happy with how they handled their Ivy opponent.

“Yale is good competition,” Shaw said. “In all three aspects of the game, we dominated. We outhit them, we outpitched them, and we played solid defense.”

HARVARD 8, YALE 0

The first contest of the doubleheader began as a pitcher’s duel between the Crimson’s Rachel Brown and the Bulldogs’ Chelsey Dunham. Unlike the second game in which Harvard had immediate offensive production, Dunham was able to stifle the Crimson for four full innings.

“[Dunham] did a good job of coming out and hitting her spots,” Allard said. “It took us a little while to get going offensively, but our defense kept us in it.”

On Easter Sunday, the Harvard offense finally rose up in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Heritage singled to right field and stole second, putting her in scoring position. She came home on a squeeze play, and shaky defense from Yale allowed Alexander to reach on the sacrifice bunt.

After Heritage’s run, the Crimson quickly opened up the game, scoring three runs in the fifth inning and five in the sixth.

“We made it happen—the squeeze was really clutch on Ashley and Jane’s part,” Shaw said. “It’s a part of our game, making little things happen out of nothing.”