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Princeton Sweeps Ivy Weekend with 3-0 Defeat of Harvard
October 08, 2005 | Women's Volleyball
Oct. 8, 2005
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PRINCETON, N.J. - Down by as much as 14-4 in the third game of Saturday afternoon's match against Harvard (3-11, 0-3 Ivy) at Dillon Gym, the Princeton women's volleyball team (10-3, 2-1) rallied to tie the Crimson at 19-19 and survived a nip-and-tuck battle through the end of the stanza to sweep Harvard, 3-0.
The Orange and Black held a consistent lead through the middle of game one, opening up a five-point advantage at 25-20 before Harvard tied Princeton at 29-29 and served for game point following a Princeton attack error that put the Crimson up 30-29. But two kills from Lindsey Ensign kept the Tigers in the frame, tying it at 31-31, before a Parker Henritze ace and a Lauren Grumet kill gave Princeton the opening game, 33-31. Ensign led Princeton with seven kills in game one.
After falling behind early in game two as Harvard won the first four points, Princeton matched the effort, tying the stanza at 4-4 and starting a stretch where neither school pulled away until Princeton went on a 6-2 run to take a 20-16 lead it would not relinquish, winning game two, 30-25. Henritze paced the Tigers with six kills to help Princeton push Harvard within one game of dropping the match.
But any momentum Princeton gained from being up two games to none subsided temporarily as Harvard rattled off the first six points and nine of the first 10 before opening up its widest lead at 14-4. After Princeton cut the lead to 15-13, Harvard refused to let the advantage slip away, pushing the margin back to five at 19-14. A Henritze kill, the first of three straight for the rookie Georgian, got Princeton back on serve and helped to tie the game at 19-19 before Harvard's Katie Turley-Moloney had three kills in a row of her own, lifting Harvard to a 23-20 advantage. The Crimson remained in control until Princeton tied the frame at 26-26 and again at 29-29. After Harvard's Laura Mahon recorded a kill that had the Crimson serving for the game, two kills and a Harvard attack error clinched the match for the Orange and Black. Ensign led Princeton with a 15-for-22 effort at the net while Henritze recorded 14 kills. Defensively, Jenny McReynolds notched 18 digs. Harvard had three hitters with double-figure kills, led by Mahon's 18.
Princeton continues with the Ivy schedule next Friday and Saturday with games at Cornell and Columbia before returning home Oct. 17 for a non-conference tilt against Seton Hill.