Volleyball Sets Sights on Columbia and Cornell

MATCH 16
Dartmouth vs. Columbia (4-10, 1-4)
Date: Friday, Oct. 14 | 7 p.m.
Location: New York, N.Y. | Levien Gym
All-Time Series: 26-23
Last Meeting: 11/6/21 – W, 3-1

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MATCH 17
Dartmouth vs. Cornell (3-11, 1-4)
Date: Saturday, Oct. 15 | 5 p.m.
Location: Ithaca, N.Y. | Newman Arena
All-Time Series: 21-37
Last Meeting: 11/5/21 – W, 3-1

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THIS WEEKEND
The Big Green look to snap a two-match losing streak when they travel to Columbia and Cornell for the fourth weekend of Ivy League action.

LAST TIME OUT
Dartmouth dropped two matches last weekend on its home court but stormed out of the gates against tough opponents with first set victories in both contests. In a mirror image of Friday's match, the Big Green impressed in the opening set before the Ivy League heavyweight opponent found its footing and rolled through the ensuing three. Despite the two losses, Dartmouth was able to win a set over reigning champion Brown for the first time since 2019.

ARENT'S ASSISTS
Senior setter Makenzie Arent needs just four assists to move into seventh place in program history for career assists. She enters Friday's match with 1,430 career assists, one of eight in program history to record quadruple digits, and very soon will pass Alissa Santa Maria '13. Even more impressive is the fact that Arent has achieved those numbers in only three seasons of action due to 2020's cancelation.

BLOCK PARTY
Dartmouth achieved its highest block total of the season, racking up 12 total against Yale. Bomi Ogunlari, as she typically does, led the Big Green in blocks with a career-high nine. Grace Wiczek also had a career-best with six rejections.

DIGS PER SET LEADER
Dartmouth led the Ivy League in several statistical categories prior to last weekend and has since fallen off a few of those pedestals after taking on a couple of the conference's premier squads. The Big Green still lead in one category, though - digs per set. Emma Engstrom and Taite Ryan are the catalysts behind the team's league-leading 15.96 digs per set. Engstrom racked up a season-high 28 digs against Brown, just four shy of a career-high, which she set against Princeton on Oct. 30, 2021.

CAN YOU DIG IT?
Last year, the Big Green defeated Cornell on the road for the first time since 2015 thanks in part to a season-high 102 digs. It was the 10th-most digs any team in the nation accumulated during a four-set match all season. Taite Ryan, Dartmouth's do-it-all senior, tied a career-high with 24 digs and added 13 kills for her third of four consecutive double-doubles.

WHAT'S AHEAD
Dartmouth is back at Leede Arena Friday, Oct. 21 to face Harvard. The contest will serve as the program's annual Dig Pink Match.

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