The practice sessions will be interrupted only by a game against St. Joseph's (0-2) on Wednesday.
Straddling its trip to the City of Brotherly Love, the Crimson will@D: @A:play at Brown (1-2) tomorrow and will return home to host Yale (3-0) next Saturday.
"Sure we'd love to go someplace warm," junior attacker Ashley Birch said. "But it's good just to go somewhere and focus on lacrosse. It will really help our play."
The Crimson hopes that the lacrosse mini-camp will help build off the energy its showed at Boston College on Monday when its offense gelled to explode for 14 goals led by attackers Lauren Corkery, a sophomore, and Katherine Burrage, a freshman. Both players netted three goals.
"In our game on Monday we pulled our intensity together," Birch said. "That's what was needed for our offense to click."
The Crimson will have to maintain that effort for its games this weekend. Its Ivy rivals always sport strong teams and prove difficult wins for the Crimson.
Last season, the Elis defeated Harvard in overtime at New Haven in a game played in the Yale Bowl. Yale has rolled over its three opponents so far this year, but has three more games in the interim.
Birch confessed that her team does not know what to expect from the Hawks on Wednesday. St. Joe's is in a transition year. This season it joined its first conference, the Atlantic 10, and has a new coach.
M. Volleyball
Like many students, the Harvard men's volleyball team (11-8, 1-6 EIVA) is heading to the beach for fun and sun.
The Crimson will play four teams during a California road trip, beginning with tonight's match-up against Sacramento State. Tomorrow, Harvard plays at University of California-Santa Cruz, followed by California Baptist on Monday and University of La Verne on Wednesday.
Harvard is on a three-match winning streak, one that began with a 3-2 win over Queens College, followed by a 3-1 win over MIT in the seniors' home finale. The Crimson's last game was a 3-2 win at Sacred Heart in which Harvard built a 2-0 but barely hung on.
Junior Joe Herger continues to lead the nation in digs per game with 2.86, while co-captain A.J. Lewis is also nationally ranked with 2.72. Junior co-captain Ed Pankau is first in blocks per game at 2.61.