Four Harvard batters finished with two RBIs and senior hurler Rachel Brown fanned nine to lead the Crimson to a 14-1 victory in just five innings because of the mercy rule.

Harvard nabbed an early advantage in the first inning when Alexander smacked a triple and then crossed home on a Regan double.

Yale quickly answered with a run in the bottom of the inning, tying the score at 1-1.

But that was the last time that the Bulldogs came close to taking the lead, as the Crimson knocked in seven runs in the second inning to make it an 8-1 game.

“When they came back and scored in the first inning, it fired us up,” Brown said. “We didn’t want it to be close at all.”

Heritage roped an RBI single to load the bases for Alexander, who then walked to bring in Shaw. Olson followed that with an RBI single, and Lange singled to plate in two more. Olson then came home on Scott’s sacrifice fly, and Lange scored on an error to put Yale at a seven-run deficit.

In the third inning, Harvard put up one more run when a Regan single plated in Lange, bringing the score to 9-1.

The fourth inning featured a four-run Crimson rally, extending Harvard‘s advantage to 13 runs. Heritage smacked an RBI double and Alexander hit an RBI single to earn the first two runs of the rally. Ferri then homered to drive in the final two runs.

The Crimson plated in one additional run in the top of the fifth inning off of an RBI double by Heritage, who finished the game hitting 3-for-3 with three RBIs.

The Bulldogs failed to score in the bottom of the inning, and Harvard won, 14-1.

—Staff writer Marlee Melendy can be reached at melendy@college.harvard.edu.