diff --git a/compare_mt/scorers.py b/compare_mt/scorers.py
index 8714c10..6e69ec7 100644
--- a/compare_mt/scorers.py
+++ b/compare_mt/scorers.py
@@ -419,11 +419,12 @@ class SacreBleuScorer(Scorer):
   A scorer that computes BLEU on detokenized text.
 
   """
-  def __init__(self, smooth_method='exp', smooth_value=0, use_effective_order=False, case_insensitive=False):
+  def __init__(self, smooth_method='exp', smooth_value=0, effective_order=False, case_insensitive=False):
     self.smooth_method = smooth_method
     self.smooth_value = smooth_value
-    self.use_effective_order = use_effective_order
+    self.effective_order = effective_order
     self.case_insensitive = case_insensitive
+    self.bleu = sacrebleu.BLEU()
 
   @property
   def scale(self):
@@ -452,13 +453,10 @@ def cache_stats(self, ref, out, src=None):
     if self.case_insensitive:
       ref = corpus_utils.lower(ref)
       out = corpus_utils.lower(out)
+    ref = [' '.join(x) for x in ref]
+    out = [' '.join(x) for x in out]
 
-    cached_stats = []
-    for r, o in zip(ref, out):
-      re = sacrebleu.corpus_bleu(" ".join(o), " ".join(r))
-      cached_stats.append( (re.counts, re.totals, re.sys_len, re.ref_len) )
-
-    return cached_stats
+    return self.bleu._extract_corpus_statistics(out, [ref])
 
   def score_cached_corpus(self, sent_ids, cached_stats):
     """
@@ -474,10 +472,14 @@ def score_cached_corpus(self, sent_ids, cached_stats):
     if len(cached_stats) == 0:
       return 0.0, None
 
-    counts, totals, sys_len, ref_len = zip(*cached_stats)
-    counts, totals, sys_len, ref_len = [np.sum(np.array(x)[sent_ids], 0) for x in [counts, totals, sys_len, ref_len]]
+    stats = np.sum(np.array(cached_stats)[list(sent_ids)],0)
 
-    return sacrebleu.compute_bleu(counts, totals, sys_len, ref_len, smooth_method=self.smooth_method, smooth_value=self.smooth_value, use_effective_order=self.use_effective_order).score, None
+    return self.bleu.compute_bleu(correct = stats[2: 2 + self.bleu.max_ngram_order],
+                                  total = stats[2 + self.bleu.max_ngram_order:],
+                                  sys_len = int(stats[0]), ref_len = int(stats[1]),
+                                  smooth_method=self.smooth_method,
+                                  smooth_value=self.smooth_value,
+                                  effective_order=self.effective_order).score, None
 
   def name(self):
     return "SacreBleuScorer"
diff --git a/compare_mt/version_info.py b/compare_mt/version_info.py
index 75cf783..6232f7a 100644
--- a/compare_mt/version_info.py
+++ b/compare_mt/version_info.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.2.9"
+__version__ = "0.2.10"
diff --git a/tests/test_scorers.py b/tests/test_scorers.py
index 32f31a5..d3aff4d 100644
--- a/tests/test_scorers.py
+++ b/tests/test_scorers.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def setUpClass(self):
   def test_score_sentence(self):
     bleu, _ = self.scorer.score_sentence(self.ref[0], self.out[0])
     # compare to nltk
-    self.assertAlmostEqual(bleu, 32.607099228782377)
+    self.assertAlmostEqual(bleu, 32.44376694160122)
   
   def test_score_corpus(self):
     sent_bleu_corpus, _ = self.scorer.score_corpus(self.ref, self.out)