“[Ferri] has really been working hard the last couple weeks on her technique, and we’ve seen her come on with some good work in practice, so we were looking to get opportunities for her this weekend,” Harvard coach Jenny Allard said. “We knew she was strong enough to get it to the outfield, but the gram slam was great. We had a lot of people in the game this weekend, and everyone was stepping up to help the team win.”

The Harvard offense began Sunday how it ended Saturday, tallying six quick runs in the first frame. The damage could have been worse, but sophomore slugger Kasey Lange hit into a fielder’s choice with the bases loaded to end the inning.

Lange made up for the missed opportunity with a sac fly in the third to give the Crimson its seventh unanswered run of the game. In the following inning, Ferri’s grand slam headlined another six-run outburst.

In the bottom of the fourth frame, the Bulldogs got their first hit off Rachel Brown since the first inning on a double by Tori Balta. Balta then gave Yale its first score of the game when she came home on a wild pitch.

Harvard came right back in the fifth as Lange notched her second and third RBIs of the contest to give the Crimson a 15-1 advantage. Brown surrendered a walk but nothing more in the bottom of the frame to lock up the mercy-rule victory.

—Staff writer Jacob D. H. Feldman can be reached at jacobfeldman@college.harvard.edu.