Big Green Fall to the Crimson in Ivy League Opener

Friday, September 23

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

6-5, 0-1

Harvard

3-7, 1-0

Team	1	2	3	Final F
Harvard	27	25	25	3
Dartmouth	25	16	23	0

Big Green Fall to the Crimson in Ivy League Opener

9/23/2016 8:52:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. – After three weekends of tournament play to start the 2016 season, the Dartmouth volleyball team opened Ivy League action against Harvard, falling in three sets (25-27, 16-25, 23-25) at Leede Arena on Friday evening.

The Big Green dipped to 6-5 and 0-1 in conference play, while the Crimson improved to 3-7 and are 1-0 in Ivy action.

Junior Sara Lindquist had a good match, ending the night with a team-leading 12 kills, five digs and two block assists. Freshman Corinne Cox led with her 15 assists and sophomore Sierra Lyle had 10 digs.

"I thought it was a very physical match tonight and both sides had some great plays," head coach Gilad Doron said. "I felt as if we didn't capitalize on a few key points during the match and it cost us games one and three. I have to give Harvard credit tonight and we have to learn from it and be ready for next week on the road. I want to thank the crowd; it was a great showing and a great atmosphere at Leede."

The first set started off in Dartmouth's favor, with the first six points going in the home team's direction off kills by Lindquist and senior Kaira Lujan and four Harvard errors. The Green remained comfortably ahead until halfway through the set, when five straight points by the Crimson tied the score at 17-all. There were five more ties before Dartmouth took a 25-24 lead following a kill by senior Emily Astarita and a Crimson error, but three consecutive points by Harvard gave the first set to the opponent (27-25).

Although the Crimson took the first two points of the second set, the Big Green soon caught up and, before long, had a 6-4 lead following kills by Astarita, Lujan and Lindquist, and an ace by Astarita. There were four more ties before the 10th point but, following a four-point run on the other side of the net, Harvard started to pull away (14-10). The Green got a few points closer after kills by Lujan, Lindquist and senior Danielle Glinka, and an ace by sophomore Zoe Leonard, but the Crimson got three straight points to win the second set (25-16).

Dartmouth started the third set with a slight advantage courtesy of kills by Astarita and Lindquist and a handful of errors by Harvard (6-2). The Crimson tied the score at 8-8 and there were two more ties in quick succession before Harvard got a slight lead (13-10). The Big Green came back with a vengeance to tie the score and then get ahead off two errors and a Lujan kill (18-16). Following a five-point Crimson run, Dartmouth once again tied the score thanks to some well-timed Harvard errors (21-21). Harvard got to match point and, although freshman Abby Kott got a kill to put the home team in a good position to win the set, a kill on the other side of the net shut the match down (25-23).

Dartmouth will be on the road for the next two weekends, first heading to Penn and Princeton (Sept. 30 – Oct. 1) before taking on Yale and Brown (Oct. 7-8) the following weekend.