Big Green Welcome Lions and Big Red to Leede Arena

Friday, October 15

Hanover, N.H.

7:00 PM

Dartmouth College

Columbia

Junior Jojo Brown

Photo by: Doug Austin

Big Green Welcome Lions and Big Red to Leede Arena

10/14/2021 12:46:00 PM | Women's Volleyball

Dartmouth volleyball will host Columbia and Cornell over the weekend

By: Charlotte Brackett

Dartmouth (8-6, 0-5) vs. Columbia (4-10, 1-4)
Friday, Oct. 15
7:00 PM
Big Green lead, 24-23
Live Stats
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Dartmouth vs. Cornell (5-8, 1-4)
Saturday, Oct. 16
5:00 PM
Big Red lead, 37-19
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Intl. Video

COVID-19 PROTOCOL
All fans are required to wear masks over their mouth and nose at all times while indoors.

THIS WEEKEND
Having been on the road for the first two weeks of October, the Dartmouth volleyball team will be back at Leede Arena this Friday and Saturday to host Columbia and Cornell. The Lions and the Big Red are the last of the seven Ivy League opponents the Big Green have yet to have faced in the past two years.

LAST TIME OUT
Dartmouth had an 0-2 road weekend, being swept by Brown (17-25, 17-25, 14-25) on Friday before getting one set from Yale the following day (15-25, 25-22, 20-25, 22-25).
· Piper Stevens led the team in total kills (16) and points (16), Karen Murphy was first with 30 assists, Emma Engstrom led with 40 digs and Francesca Meldrum had a team-leading six total blocks.
· Against the Bulldogs, Makenzie Arent had yet another double-double (19A, 12D). She has had one in exactly half of the Big Green's matches in 2021.

SCOUTING THE LIONS
Columbia has won just four matches so far this season, but it does have an Ivy win under its belt from beating travel partner Cornell in the first conference match of the year. Since then, the Lions have lost four straight to Yale, Brown, Penn and Princeton.

LAST TIME AGAINST COLUMBIA
The Big Green and the Lions went 1-1 in 2019. Columbia won the first meeting in October, 3-1, while Dartmouth had a five-set victory to open the final home weekend of the season. The series is a close one, as the Big Green have just one game on the Lions.

SCOUTING THE BIG RED
Cornell has struggled a bit during conference play, picking up its first win against Penn last Saturday. Before that, the Big Red had been riding a five-match losing streak dating back to mid-September.

LAST TIME AGAINST CORNELL
The Green and the Red split in 2019: Cornell took all three sets at its home gym, but Dartmouth managed to squeak out a 3-1 victory on Senior Day.

IVY LEAGUE STATISTICS
Team
Digs – 1st (983, 17.25)
Assists – 2nd (658)
Kills – 3rd (724)
Aces – T3rd (82)

Individual
Digs – Engstrom, 1st (278)
Digs/set – Engstrom, 1st (4.88)
Hitting % - Gibbs, 2nd (.378)
Kills – Blain, 2nd (197)
Kills/set – Blain, 4th (3.58)

NCAA
Digs/set – Dartmouth, 15th (17.33)
Digs/set – Engstrom, T29th (4.89)
Kills/set – Blain, 90th (3.69)

CAN'T BE THERE?
Live stats and video for the matches can be found on DartmouthSports.com. To keep up-to-date on all of Dartmouth volleyball's news, follow the team on Twitter: @DartmouthVBall.

NEXT UP FOR DARTMOUTH
Having been through the list once, the Big Green will now start back over at the beginning, playing Harvard next Saturday at 5:30 p.m.