IRVINE, Calif. – The University of Pennsylvania volleyball team proved to be a rude guest on Sunday's final day at the Anteater Classic, taking the floor against tournament host UC Irvine and sweeping the Anteaters, 3-0.
 
Set scores were 25-11, 25-11, 25-13.
 
Penn improved to 2-1 with its second consecutive straight-set victory, while UC Irvine fell to 3-3 overall.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Penn hit .318 as a team on Sunday, with 43 kills and just nine errors on 107 attacks.
 
*The Quakers also totaled 5.0 blocks (2s/6a) and had 68 digs compared to UCI which had just 45 digs. Penn also served up seven service aces, four coming from sophomore Ellie Siskin.
 
*Two other sophomores, Jenna Garner and Adell Murray, were named to the all-tournament team.

*Garner was the story on attack for Penn, as she finished the day with 14 kills and hit .462 (14-2-26). She also had 12 digs for her second double-double in as many matches.
 
*Murray was the other Penn player with a double-figure kill total (10) and hit .368 on the day (10-3-19).
 
*Siskin had seven kills, hitting .350 (7-0-20), and added nine digs to go with her four aces.
 
*Junior Zada Sanger put down six more kills before finally making a pair of attack errors in the third set. Dating back to Saturday, she had 20 kills without an error across five sets of play.
 
*Sophomore setter Emery Moore dished out 33 assists (11.0 per set) and added 12 digs.
 
*Freshman libero Addison Pollock led the Quakers with 21 digs, followed by Moore, Garner, and junior Elsa McDermott (10).
 
*Another freshman, Haley Kerstetter, had four blocks (2s/2a) in the first set Sunday and put down five kills.
 
How It Happened
SET 1: Maybe it was the early start (noon Eastern), but UC Irvine came out sluggish on Sunday and Penn took immediate advantage. The Quakers scored the first six points in the match, then responded to a three-point UCI run with four in a row to go up by 10-3. Irvine never got closer than six the rest of the way, and the margin was double digits when a Murray kill made it 16-6. Sanger had four kills on eight attacks, a .500 hitting set, while Garner and Kerstetter had three kills each and Kerstetter had her four blocks. Pollock came up with nine digs in the first set.
 
SET 2: Another fast start set the tone in the second, Penn scoring the first three points and then answering a two-point UCI run with six in a row to go in front 9-2. The teams essentially traded points to 16-8, at which point Penn reeled off a 9-3 run to close things out. Garner was a monster, with seven kills and a .600 hitting set, while Siskin and Murray had four kills apiece (Siskin hitting .800, Murray .571).
 
SET 3: Irvine opened the scoring in this set—the only lead the Anteaters would have all day—but Penn scored the next four and never looked back. The Quakers' lead was 7-5 when Murray sandwiched a pair of kills around two Siskin aces as part of a 5-0 run that got the margin to 12-5. The Anteaters never got closer than six the rest of the way, and Penn punctuated the victory with the last six points in the match as Garner put down two kills and Siskin served up two more aces in the final run. Garner and Murray had four kills each in the set, Garner hitting .444 and Murray .250, while Pollock had nine more digs and Moore finished the set with 10 assists and seven digs.
 
Up Next
Penn is back on the East Coast next weekend, making a trip to the Old Line State for the Towson-Coppin State Invitational. The Quakers will play at Coppin State on Friday, then meet Lafayette and the host Tigers at Towson on Saturday.
 
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