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Volleyball on the road at Yale for Friday night tilt
10/20/2022 1:14:00 PM | Women's Volleyball
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Brown volleyball begins the second half of Ivy League play with a matchup at Yale on Friday (Oct. 21). The match against the Bulldogs will begin at 7 p.m. and will be streamed on ESPN+.
The Bears begin the second half of league play at 5-2 on the season, sitting behind Yale (7-0) and Princeton (6-1). Brown sits in third in the league as the race to the Ivy League Tournament continues.
ABOUT BROWN
The Bears begin the second half of league play at 5-2 on the season, sitting behind Yale (7-0) and Princeton (6-1). Brown sits in third in the league as the race to the Ivy League Tournament continues.
ABOUT BROWN
- Brown dropped its last match, losing in four sets to Princeton on Saturday. The Bears held Princeton to .206 hitting and outblocked the Tigers 17-6.
- In Ivy League play, Beau Vanderlaan sits on top of the league in three different statistical categories. Vanderlaan leads the league in hitting percentage (.459), blocks per set (1.36) and points per set (4.22).
- Brown's net defense has been stellar this Ivy League season with the Bears averaging a league best 2.80 blocks per set. The Bears have had double-digit blocks in three of the seven league matches and at least seven blocks in six of the seven matches.
- Behind Vanderlaan, Gabby Derrick is third in the league with 1.12 blocks per set and Kate Sheire sits in fifth at 1.08 blocks per set.
- Victoria Vo sits in third in the Ivy League with 4.08 digs per set and has double-figure digs in six of her seven Ivy League matches, including 20+ digs twice.
- Sophia Miller leads the Bears with 3.29 kills per set on the season. Vanderlaan is fourth in the league and leads the Bears during league play with 3.16 kills per set.
- Cierra Jenkins is third in league play in assists per set at 10.96. Jenkins has had at least 33 assists in every Ivy League match this year and has twice had 40+ assists, including a season-high 49 assists against Dartmouth. Jenkins reached her 1,000th-career assist against Penn.
- Yale is a perfect 7-0 on the season in Ivy League play and have now won 13-straight games.
- Since beating Brown in five sets to open league play, Yale has lost only two sets, including sweeps against Princeton and Penn in their last two games.
- Audrey Leak leads Yale and the Ivy League with 3.60 kills per set during league play. Leak has finished with double-figure kills in all but one league game, posting nine kills in the three-set win over Princeton.
- The offense runs through Carly Diehl who is second in the league with 11.24 assists per set.
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