Dartmouth Volleyball Drops Final Road Game of the Season

Saturday, November 6

Providence, R.I.

4:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Brown

Dartmouth Volleyball Drops Final Road Game of the Season

11/6/2010 5:43:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

By: Dartmouth

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The Dartmouth women's volleyball team played at Brown on Saturday and suffered its second straight loss. The Big Green won the first set, but the Bears took the next three for the 3-1 victory. The loss drops Dartmouth to 13-10 overall and 4-8 in the Ivy League. Brown improves to 8-16 overall and 2-10 in the conference.

In the first set, Dartmouth was in control with a 20-15 lead. Brown shifted the momentum in the match, and tied the set by winning eight of the next 11 points. With the score tied at 23, junior Kendall Houston (Austin, Texas) and freshman Elisa Scudder (Ashburn, Va.) blocked a Brown attack to give the team a 24-23 lead. Junior Madeline Baird (Austin, Texas) ended the set, 25-23, with a kill, but the momentum the Bears garnered with the run carried over to the next three sets.

With the score tied at six in the second, the Bears went on a 14-4 run to blow open the set, 20-10. Dartmouth couldn't mount a comeback and lost, 25-13. In the third set, Dartmouth and Brown went back and forth with the Bears eventually holding a 15-14 lead. The next 11 points didn't go how the Big Green planned. Brown won 10 of the final 11 points to easily win the set, 25-15. The fourth set didn't go any better for Dartmouth, with Brown winning 25-17.

Senior Kelsey Johnson (Carlsbad, Calif.) led the team with 14 kills. The defense tried its best with four players recording at least 11 digs. Junior Amber Bryant led the team with 19, Baird chipped in 16, senior Jessica Hartman (Woodside, Calif.) had 14 and Houston tallied 11.

Katrina Post of Brown led all players with 17 kills. The top back row player for the Bears was Annika Gliottone with 26 digs. Alexandra Rieckhoff spread the ball around with 50 assists.

Dartmouth plays its final games of the season at home on Friday, November 12, against Princeton at 6 p.m. and Saturday, November 13, against Penn at 4 p.m.