Dartmouth Volleyball Stumbles in Loss at Penn

Friday, September 30

Philadelphia, Pa.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Penn

Dartmouth Volleyball Stumbles in Loss at Penn

9/30/2011 7:04:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

By: Dartmouth

PHILADELPHIA, PA. — The Dartmouth volleyball team's five-match winning streak ended on Friday with the Big Green losing at Penn, 3-0. The Quakers won a close first set and used the momentum they gained to secure the next two. The loss dropped the Big Green to 9-4 overall and 1-1 in the Ivy League. The Quakers improved to 5-7 and 1-1 in conference play.

In the first set, the two teams went back and forth with each team holding the lead multiple times. Penn took an early 6-4 lead behind multiple kills from sophomore Kristen Etterbeek. Dartmouth tied the score at eight a piece, but the Quakers regained the lead and held a 17-14 advantage late in the set. The Big Green took the lead by winning the next four points on a kill by senior Annie Villanueva (Santa Barbara, Calif.), a double block by sophomore Elisa Scudder (Ashburn, Va.) and senior Madeline Baird (Austin, Texas), a kill by Baird and another double block by Scudder and junior Alissa Santa Maria (Yorba Linda, Calif.).

Penn tied the set at 18 on a kill by Emma White. Dartmouth gained a three-point lead, 21-18, on three straight points, highlighted by an ace by Santa Maria. The Quakers responded with four consecutive points to take a 22-21 lead. After a kill by Scudder tied the score, Penn won three of the next four points to take the set, 25-23.

The momentum the Quakers gained in the first carried over to the second and third sets. The Big Green never really found a rhythm after the first and lost the next two by the same 25-17 score.

Penn's White led all players with 13 kills. The only other player in the match to record double-digit kills was the Quakers' Lauren Martin with 10.

Villanueva led the Big Green with nine kills. Baird totaled eight kills and 13 digs. Senior Amber Bryant (Libertyville, Ill.) had a team-high 15 digs.

Dartmouth was its own worst enemy with 18 attack errors, three setting errors, five service errors and one blocking error. In all, the Big Green committed 27 errors, which resulted in 27 of the 75 points the Quakers scored in the contest.

Dartmouth will not have much time to fix its mistake as it plays at Princeton on Saturday at 4 p.m.