PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The University of Pennsylvania volleyball team began its road trip in New England with a 3-0 loss to the defending Ivy League champions, Brown. Set scores were 25-13, 25-21, 25-17.
 
Penn fell to 2-14 overall, 1-5 in Ivy play. The Bears are now 9-6 overall and tied for second place in the Ivy standings with Princeton, both at 5-1.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Ella Green led the Penn attack with a team-high nine kills and a .333 hitting percentage, her second-best hitting percentage this season (behind a .375 match against CSUN).
 
*Freshman Abigail Reid tied for match-high honors in digs with 11, sharing that honor with the defending Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year, Brown's Victoria Vo.
 
*Senior Autumn Leak was second with seven kills, while freshmen Anna Shohfi and Claire Deller had four each. Shohfi also went the distance at setter and had 24 assists.
 
*Senior Madeline McGregor had just two kills but came up with eight digs.
 
*Junior Emerson Flornes had three kills and hit .333 on the night, and also had Penn's only block of the night.
 
How It Happened
Penn had a nice start on Friday night, scoring three of the first four points in the first set. However, Brown reeled off the next six points and then answered a Leak kill with two more to go in front, 9-4. A Flornes kill and Kat Alexander ace got the Quakers within three, at 9-6, and they cut even deeper into the lead at 10-8. At that point, the Bears scored eight of the next nine points to double up their guests and cruised to the first-set win.
 
Brown was up big early in the second set, as well, jumping out to a 9-3 lead. To their credit, the Quakers fought point-for-point with the defending champs the rest of the way, of note closing within three at 17-14 (forcing a Brown timeout) and again with a three-point run to make it 20-18 (forcing the Bears into their second and final timeout of the set). Brown scored the first two points out of that break and was content to trade points the rest of the way in winning, 25-21.
 
Penn and Brown were tied 2-2 in the third set, before the Bears scored four in a row and never trailed again. The lead extended to six at 10-4 and hit eight for the first time at 16-8. The Quakers never got closer than six after that as Brown closed out the sweep.
 
Up Next
Penn gets back into action tomorrow afternoon at Yale, taking on the Bulldogs at 5 p.m. in New Haven, Conn. Yale is alone in first place at 6-0 after sweeping Princeton tonight.