PHILADELPHIA - The University of Pennsylvania volleyball team (4-13, 1-5 Ivy) put together a full team effort on Friday night to sweep Columbia at The Palestra earning its first Ivy League win of the season. The win also goes down as head coach Iain Braddak's first career Ivy League win and against the team he was assistant for last season prior to his arrival at Penn.

Inside the Numbers - Box Score

* Penn's sweep over Columbia at The Palesta is its first since 2013. 

* The Red and Blue's .357 attack percentage is its most since hitting .400 in the team's win over Norfolk State.

* The Quakers hit 46 kills against the Lions. Penn is 3-3 when it hits 45 or more kills in a game this season. 

* Four of the five attackers for Penn with ten or more attacks had hit percentages over .300.

* The Quakers' 11 errors are the least amount they've hit since playing Norfolk State (10). 

* Penn got a total team effort on Friday. Raven Sulaimon, Parker Jones, and Taylor Cooper all had more than nine kills with Sulaimon leading the way with 12. 

* Sulaimon's 12 kills marks the tenth time this season that she has double-digit kills. 

 * Cooper's .571 attack percentage marked a new career high. Her previous was .563 against Cornell in her sophomore year. 

* Grace James had 30 or more assists for the eighth time this season. 

* Jones' success at The Palestra continued against Columbia. The sophomore hit at least nine kills at home for the sixth time this season. 91 of her 135 kills this season (67%) have come at The Palestra. 

How it Happened

The Quakers came into Friday night looking to get their first Ivy League win of the season. Friday night also marked head coach Iain Braddak's first meeting against Columbia, the team he was an assistant for last season prior to arriving at Penn.

A service error and a Lions' ace did not give the Red and Blue the start that it was looking for, but the team bounced back with kills from Raven Sulaimon and Brooke Behrbaum to take the ensuing three points. A 5-0 run put the Quakers up 8-4 and they never looked back. Penn ended the set on a 4-0 run to take it 25-16. 

Two kills by Parker Jones and three consecutive aces by Caroline Furrer sparked a 6-0 run in the second set with Penn up 9-6 to take a commanding 15-6 lead. The Quakers went up 12 at 22-10 with kills from Sulaimon and then Taylor Cooper put the set away, 25-15. 

For the second straight match at The Palestra, Penn took a 2-0 lead. This time they would look to close it out. While a much closer set with neither team able to gain more than three points of separation and 13 total ties, the Red and Blue were able to come up big when it mattered most. With the set tied at 23, Jones hit her ninth kill of the night to set up match point and then it was Grace James who stood tall at the net forcing the final ball to drop on the Columbia side to secure the victory. 

What's Next

The Quakers will be back in The Palestra on Saturday when they face Cornell at 5 p.m. The team will honor the Ivy League champion '83 and '03 teams in a special ceremony.