ST. CHARLES, Mo. -- The Harvard women's rugby team dominated the second half of a 36-5 win over Lindenwood on the road Saturday afternoon. The win propelled the defending-national champs to 5-0 on the season, while the Lions fell to 5-2.
The match-up marked a rematch of last fall's 2025 NIRA National Championship game, which was won by the Crimson.
Lindenwood got on the scoreboard first over 12 minutes into the first half. Harvard answered less than three minutes later, a player down, on a try by
Morgan Gibson to tie the game 5-5.
Dana Greer scored to give the Crimson its first lead of the day shortly before halftime.
The second half was all Harvard as the visitors scored three tries over a stretch of 15 minutes.
Lolua Tauanu'u got the second-half scoring started followed by tries from
Josephine Mignone and
Sana'a Lunon. In the final moments,
Eseta Pale burst through the line for the final try of the game.
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