PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The University of Pennsylvania volleyball team was swept at Brown on Saturday night, 3-0. Set scores were 25-14, 25-18, 25-14
 
Penn is now 2-12 overall and 0-4 after two weekends of facing the Ivy League's iron, with three of those matches on the road. Brown improved to 10-3 overall and is 1-2 in Ivy play with the losses coming to last year's co-champions, Yale and Princeton.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Freshman Zada Sanger led Penn with seven kills on Saturday night, while classmate Bella Rittenberg had six. Sophomores Claire Deller and Feyi Ogunlari had five each.
 
*Senior setter Jo Armstrong had 23 assists, seven digs, and a team-high three service aces.
 
*Sophomore libero Abigail Reid came up with 14 digs.
 
*Deller had Penn's only block solo, while Rittenberg and sophomore Jalen Tennyson shared a block assist.
 
*Brown had five different players with at least seven kills, led by Mariia Sidorova and Isabella Bonatakis who had nine each. Jessie Golden led all players with 18 digs, while Victoria Vo had eight digs and a match-high four service aces. Cierra Jenkins dished out 31 assists.
 
How It Happened
Brown opened up a 4-1 lead to start Saturday night's action. The teams essentially traded points after that until the Bears' lead was 7-5, at which point the hosts scored six points in a row around a Penn timeout. That made the score 13-5, and Brown sealed the deal after a Sanger kill with five more points to make the score 18-6 which forced another Quakers timeout. Penn never got closer than nine the rest of the way.
 
Brown then used a four-point run early in the second set to go in front, 7-3, but Penn responded shortly afterward with a 6-1 run—two of them coming on Armstrong service aces—which put the Quakers in front, 12-10. The Red and Blue's lead was still three at 17-14, but out of a Brown timeout the Bears ripped off five straight points to force a Penn timeout, Vanderlaan putting down two kills and a block assist in the mini-run. The Quakers' timeout—two of them, in fact—did nothing to slow down their hosts; ultimately Brown's run was 11-1 as Bruno took the set, 25-18.
 
The third set was 4-3 in Brown's favor when the Bears reeled off four straight points, forcing an early Penn timeout. The teams traded points for several sideouts after that, before another three-point Bruno run made the score 15-7 and caused Penn to take its final timeout. Unfortunately, the stoppage did nothing to end Brown's momentum, as the hosts came out of the break and scored five of the next six points to get the led up to 12 (20-8). Bruno cruised from there. Rittenberg had five of her six kills in the third set.
 
Up Next
Penn is back in New England again next weekend, this time making the Northern swing to face Dartmouth on Friday (7 p.m.) and Harvard on Saturday (5 p.m.).
 
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