“Everyone was a little bummed [at halftime],” Weis said. “We were having trouble connecting in the goal scoring area so everybody was bummed that we weren’t doing what we wanted to do.”

But the Crimson wasted no time getting started in the second. Less than a minute in, sophomore attacker Chelsey Newman found the net. After a Tetreault score with 27:25 to go, Newman finished her second goal just more than two minutes later. Co-captain Melanie Baskind got in on the action with 20:11 to go, marking the fourth Crimson score in the period’s first 10 minutes.

The Lions were unable to respond, and Harvard continued to pile on the goals. Thexton notched her first score, and then junior attacker Jennifer VanderMeulen finished two more in the game’s final 10 minutes.

With 7:22 left on the clock, Columbia’s Katie Angulo snuck one into the net, bringing an end to a scoreless streak of more than 35 minutes.

The Crimson is back in action on Friday night against first-place Dartmouth at Harvard Stadium. Princeton also has a tough matchup ahead, as it hosts 5-1 Penn on Wednesday. Cornell, meanwhile, visits seventh-place Brown (6-7, 1-5) on Saturday. A Crimson win paired with a Princeton or Cornell loss would secure Harvard a spot in the Ivy League tournament, which begins May 4.

—Staff writer Martin Kessler can be reached at martin.kessler@college.harvard.edu.