PRINCETON, N.J. – The University of Pennsylvania volleyball team opened the second half of Ivy League play with a 3-0 loss at Princeton Friday night at the Tigers' Dillon Gym.
 
Set scores were 25-20, 25-21, 25-17.
 
Penn falls to 3-5 in Ivy play and is back at .500 overall (9-9). Princeton improved to 6-2 in league action and is 11-5 overall.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Junior Zada Sanger put down 11 kills on Friday night and added four digs and a block assist.
 
*Sophomore Ellie Siskin had nine kills, three digs and a block assist.
 
*Senior Jalen Tennyson and sophomore Jenna Garner both recorded six kills on Friday, Tennyson hitting .455 on the night (6K-1E-11A) and adding a team-high two block assists.
 
*Freshman libero Addison Pollock led Penn with 14 digs.
 
*Sophomore setter Emery Moore finished the night with 20 assists and three digs, while senior Anna Shohfi dished out 16 assists with four digs.
 
*Junior Bella Rittenberg and freshman Haley Kerstetter had four kills each.
 
How It Happened
SET 1 (Princeton 25-20): It was 3-3 early, but the Tigers scored three in a row and then answered Penn's fourth point with another six in a row. That made it 12-4 and the Quakers were fighting uphill the rest of the way. Penn got as close as five at 21-16 and again at 22-17, but Princeton scored the next two points to get to set point. The Red and Blue fought off three of them, helped in part by Rittenberg and Sanger kills, but Princeton closed it out at 25-20. Sanger (.429), Tennyson (1.000) and Rittenberg all had three kills in the set while Pollock had seven digs.
 
SET 2 (Princeton 25-21): The closest of the three sets, the teams tying 10 times with seven lead changes. Things were tied at 17-17 when Tennyson and Siskin blocked an Erin McNair attack, then Sanger put down a kill for a 19-17 Penn lead. The Tigers called timeout, but Siskin and then Garner answered Princeton points with kills to keep the Quakers in front, 21-19. They would be Penn's last points, unfortunately, as the host Tigers rolled off the final six in a row with the last three coming via blocks at the net. Sanger (.333) had six kills in the set while Siskin (.500) put down three.
 
SET 3 (Princeton 25-17): Penn led early, 7-5, but the Tigers ripped off the next nine points and Quakers coach Tyler Hagstrom's two timeouts couldn't stop things. A Sanger kill got the Red and Blue got as close as four, at 16-12, but Princeton scored the next two points and four of the next five to get some breathing room late. Siskin (.500) put down four kills in the final set.
 
Up Next
Penn is back on the road again the next two weekends, starting next Friday and Saturday when the Quakers are at Brown (Friday at 6 p.m.) and Yale (Saturday at 6 p.m.).
 
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