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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The University of Pennsylvania volleyball team dropped a four-set decision at Brown Friday night, 3-1.
 
Set scores were 25-15, 24-26, 25-20, 25-17.
 
Penn falls to 3-6 in Ivy League play and 9-10 overall; Brown, meanwhile, is tied for first place in Ivy play after Friday’s night action, at 7-2, and improved to 12-6 overall.
 
Quaker Notemeal
*Sophomore Ellie Siskin led the Quaker attack on Friday night, putting down 14 kills which matched her high in an Ivy match this season (also at Dartmouth). She also had six digs, three block assists, and a service ace.
 
*Sophomore Jenna Garner had nine kills and 14 digs—finishing one kill shy of a double-double for the third time this season—and also recorded her first block solo of the season.
 
*Freshman Haley Kerstetter put down seven kills and had the best hitting percentage of any Penn player, at .294 (7-2-17). The first-year also had three block assists and two digs.
 
*After missing Penn’s last two matches to injury, sophomore Adell Murray returned to the lineup Friday and finished the night with five kills, a team-high four block assists, and a dig.
 
*Sophomore setter Emery Moore dished out 35 assists, dug 12 balls, and had three kills without an error.
 
*Freshman libero Addison Pollock ended the night with 13 digs.
 
How It Happened
SET 1 (Brown 25-15): The Bears led just 6-5 early, but ripped off three straight points and four more after Penn had gotten back within two, at 9-7. Another three-point run pushed the score to 18-9, Bruno doubling up the Quakers, and the hosts cruised from there. Kerstetter had four kills in the first set and hit .429, while Siskin put down three and junior Bella Rittenberg added two.
 
SET 2 (Penn 26-24): this set featured 12 ties but just two lead changes—amazingly, the second one coming when Penn went in front 6-5 on a Brown attack error. Kills by Garner and Murray were sandwiched around another Bruno error to give the Quakers a 14-11 lead, an advantage that held all the way to 21-21. At that point, a Brown service error was followed by a Zada Sanger kill—forcing a Bears timeout—and then Penn had set point after another Brown attack error. Bruno made up all three points, including a bizarre situation that saw the Quakers challenge a play with a 24-23 lead that would have given them the set. The initial call was upheld, tying things at 24-24, but Penn held its collective nerve as Sanger and then Siskin put down kills to close it out. Garner had five kills and hit .444 in the set (5-1-9), while Siskin had four and hit .429 (4-1-7) and Sanger put down three.

END SET 2 | Penn (1) 26, Brown (1) 24

BACK LEVEL! Great resilience in that second set and Ellie sends us to the break tied at 1-1 in sets.

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SET 3 (Brown 25-20): The Bears scored the first three points and went up 8-3 quickly, forcing Penn head coach Tyler Hagstrom to take a timeout. The stoppage worked—Penn scored six of the next seven points to tie things at 9-9. The teams were tied again at 10, 12 and 13 before Bruno asserted itself with six straight points (a Quakers timeout doing little to stop the damage). Penn got within three at 21-18 after Siskin and Garner sandwiched kills around Siskin’s only ace of the night. That brought about a Brown timeout and the Bears settled down enough to end it. Siskin had four kills in the set while Garner and Kerstetter had two each.

END SET 3 | Brown (2) 25, Penn (1) 20

EMERY, GETTING CHEEKY! Comeback starts now in Providence!

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SET 4 (Brown 25-17): Penn was in a good place, up 11-7 and with Brown calling timeout. It went south quickly—the Bears reeled off seven of the next eight points, flipping the script and taking a 14-12 lead that extended to 16-13. A Siskin kill was followed by a Brown attack error, getting the Quakers within one, but that was the last gasp as Bruno scored the next five points in a row to go up 21-15. Overall, it was a 9-2 run to end the match as the host Bears sprinted to the finish line Friday night at Pizzitola Sports Center. Siskin put down another three kills while Murray had two, hitting .400 (2-0-5).
 
Up Next
Penn continues this weekend in New England Saturday night at Yale; first serve is scheduled for 6 p.m.
 
For the latest on Penn volleyball, follow @PennVolleyball on X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, and on the web at PennAthletics.com.
 

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