Jumping out to a 4-0 lead in the top of the first, the Crimson appeared to be in excellent position to put a rare blemish on Quaker ace Alexis Sargent’s record.

Shively roped a single through the left side to plate two, and two more runs scored on an error by Penn first baseman Sarah Cwiertnia and a sacrifice fly off the bat of senior designated hitter Catherine Callaway.

“Our game plan was just to go out swinging,” Rich said. “We saw her last year and knew we could hit her, so it was just a matter of coming out ready to swing our bats which we did really well the first inning. One good at bat led to the next and the momentum kept building.”

However, those four runs would be all the Harvard bats would muster in seven innings. Sargent regrouped after the first and allowed only three more hits on the day, all singles, en route to a complete game win. The senior struck out two in her sixth victory of the season.

Senior righthander Taylor Cabe flummoxed the Quakers’ batters through four innings, but Penn tacked on four runs of its own in the bottom of the fifth to knot the game at four. The Quakers pushed across another in their next turn at bat, and Sargent shut down the Crimson in the seventh to clinch the win.

—Staff writer Jack Stockless can be reached at jack.stockless@thecrimson.com